Britain charges 2 Russians over Novichok poisoning

LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors said Wednesday they have charged two Russian men with the nerve agent poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury.The Crown Prosecution Service said the men, known to British investigators as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, are charged in absentia with conspiracy to murder, attempted murder and use of the nerve agent Novichok.Prosecutor Sue Hemming said the U.K. is not asking Moscow to extradite the men