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IS-linked module eyed Boston-style attack with remote-controlled toy carsAn IS-inspired terror plot to use remote-controlled toy cars as detonators for IEDs has been foiled. Police seized an RC car and actual det...- April 6 in world history: From turning point in WWI to global invasions, genocide and bombingsApril 6th marks significant global events, from the 1896 rebirth of the Olympic Games to the US entry into World War I in 1917. The day als...
- WHO warns about attacks on Iran health facilities, regional threatThe World Health Organization has issued a stark warning about escalating attacks on health facilities in Iran. A major research center in ...
- Concern over Syria's chemical weapons stockpile triggers emergency meeting of global monitorThe OPCW convened an urgent meeting regarding Syria's chemical weapons. Rebels seized Damascus. The watchdog voiced worry over the use of c...
- Syria chemical weapons: 'large quantities' and major questionsFollowing the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by Islamist rebels, concerns have risen over the security of Syria's chemical w...
- Syrians lead push to create global chemical weapons tribunalA dozen Syrian rights groups, international legal experts and others have quietly spent two years laying the groundwork for a new treaty-ba...
- Russia is unlikely to use chemical weapons in Ukraine - unless Vladimir Putin grows desperateA chemical weapon can be any chemical that is used to harm people, including to injure or kill them. Many substances have been used as chem...
- Syria must answer 20 questions on its chemical weaponsUS Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the UN Security Council the world “should not be fooled by Syria's veneer of cooperation” while ...
- Syria has likely used chemical weapons 17 times: OPCW“There are 20 unresolved issues in Syria's initial chemical weapons declaration, which is deeply concerning,” she said. “The UN and the OPC...
- Chemical weapons watchdog OPCW strips Syria's rights over attacksThe measures are in response to an OPCW investigation last year that found the Syrian air force had used the nerve agent sarin and chlorine...
- Syria faces sanctions at chemical weapons watchdogMember states of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will weigh a French proposal to suspend Syria's "rights an...
- Russia blocks Syria chemical weapons use accountability: USUS Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the UN Security Council that “the Assad regime has tried to avoid accountability by obstructing ...
- Global chemical arms body gains new powers, Russia says may quitThe OPCW now "has a crucial extra power, not just to identify the use of chemical weapons, but also to point the finger at the organisation...
- Russia likely to call UN meeting over Syria attack: Russian lawmakerOvernight, US, British and French forces launched more than 100 missiles from ships and manned aircraft, targeting three of Syria's main ch...
- Syria, Russia accuse Israel over air strike, deny chemical attackIsrael, which has struck Syrian army locations many times in the course of the seven-year-old civil war, has neither confirmed nor denied m...
- 'No doubt' Syria behind chemical attack: Pentagon chiefIf they use chemical weapons, they are going to pay a very, very stiff price, said US defence chief Jim Mattis.
- Syria chemical attack: What makes Sarin gas so deadly
- US missile strike against Syria: Read Pentagon's full statementAt the direction of the president, US forces conducted a cruise missile strike against a Syrian Air Force airfield today, said the Pentagon...
- US intelligence thinks Bashar al-Assad could use chemicals on a massive scaleUS officials believe the Assad regime has created a new type of chemical bomb filled with chlorine and obtained the chemicals needed to mak...
- 'Fingers on pulse if needed it can be on trigger': Benjamin NetanyahuIsrael has termed the alleged use of chemical weapons by the embattled Syrian regime against civilians "a terrible tragedy and a terrible c...
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