Russia loses bid for joint UK spy probe

Russia lost a bid yesterday at the global chemical weapons watchdog to launch a joint probe with Britain into the spy poisoning scandal, and sought to press its case at the highest level calling for urgent UN Security Council talks. London has said it is “highly likely” Moscow was behind the March 4 attack on former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. But the Kremlin has vehemently denied any involvement in the poisoning which Britain says was carried out with a military-grade nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union.