Neighbours in the tranquil Oxfordshire village of Great Rollright knew housewife Mrs Burton for the scrumptious taste of her scones in the summer of 1945. But they had no idea she was actually top Soviet spy Ursula Kuczynski, who came close to blowing up Adolf Hitler before Joseph Stalin got cold feet. Kuczynski, code-named Sonya, nearly averted the … Read more
Pictured: The hired hitman hunted by police after he left Bolton gym goer fighting for his life in brazen daylight assassination attempt A 28-year-old man was shot three times by a hitman outside a gym in Bolton The victim survived the attack, which is the latest in a string of inter-gang crimes Greater Manchester Police … Read more
German prosecutors have filed murder charges against a Russian man accused of the brazen daylight slaying in Berlin of a Georgian man last year. The victim, Tornike K., who also has widely been identified in reports on the killing as Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, was a Georgian citizen of Chechen ethnicity who fought against Russian troops in … Read more
UK spies ‘warned Pope John Paul II of poison-tipped umbrella assassination plot’ – two years before he was targeted by a gunman Pope John Paul II was shot four times in St Peter’s Square in May 1981 The Pontiff survived the attack by Grey Wolves group member Mehmet Ali Agca UK spies had warned the … Read more