 British authorities have found traces of low-level radioactivity at a dozen sites and on two commercial jets in an expanding investigation into the bizarre death of a former Soviet spy who was poisoned with polonium-210. Home Secretary John Reid, who reported on the latest findings Thursday, said experts are examining 24 sites and five planes in all. Reid did not say whether the radioactivity found at the 12 sites was polonium-210, which was used to poison former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died a week ago.In Moscow, meanwhile, doctors said they believed Yegor Gaidar, a former premier and head of a liberal opposition party, may have been poisoned during a conference last week in Ireland, his spokesman Valery Natarov told The Associated Press.Gaidar, 50, became violently ill and was rushed to a hospital in Ireland, but was improving in a Moscow hospital Thursday....
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