Double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies aged 86
Counter-terrorism police are assisting the coroner, but his death is not being treated as suspicious.
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Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies in Surrey aged 86
Soviet spy defected to Britain from Moscow under threat of exposure after supplying information to MI6 and MI5. Oleg Gordievsky obituary Oleg Gordievsky, the UK’s most significant cold war ...The Guardian - 6h -
Oleg Gordievsky obituary
Russian spy who was the highest ranking KGB officer to defect to Britain. For more than a decade the senior KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky, who has died aged 86, spied for MI6 before escaping ...The Guardian - 9h -
Five Star singer Stedman Pearson dies aged 60
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George Foreman, boxing champion and entrepreneur, dies aged 76
The death of the heavyweight champion boxer was announced by his family in a post on Instagram. Boxing Hall of Famer and entrepreneur George Foreman has died at age 76, his family has announced in ...The Guardian - 57m -
Counter-terror police leading inquiry into ‘unprecedented’ Heathrow fire
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Coroner: Columbine shooting survivor's 2025 death partly attributed to massacre
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Months after the Vivienne died, their cause of death sparks calls for ketamine awareness
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Death Toll in 1999 Columbine School Shooting Climbs to 14 With Homicide Ruling
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Former MLB pitcher Art Schallock dies at 100
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