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20 Iranian Schoolgirls Hospitalised After Latest Poison Attack
Twenty Iranian schoolgirls were hospitalised on Tuesday after the latest in a mysterious wave of poisoning attacks that have sickened thousands of pupils, state media reported.
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Over 5,000 School Children Poisoned In Iran: Lawmaker
More than 5,000 Iranian schoolchildren have been affected by a spate of poisonings that has targeted mainly female pupils since late November, according to a lawmaker investigating the cases.
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Protests In Iran After Suspected Poison Attacks On Schoolgirls: Report
Worried parents protested in Iran's capital Tehran and other cities on Saturday over a wave of suspected poison attacks that have affected schoolgirls in dozens of schools, according to Iranian news agencies and social media videos.
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New Confirmation Of Chlorine Use In Syria
Global arms experts Wednesday confirmed chlorine was used in a Syrian town in February leaving residents fighting for breath, as the world awaits the results of a probe into last month's alleged poison gas attack on Douma.
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UK Nerve Gas Attack Has Sparked New Cold War, According To Russian Media
Russian media on Tuesday shared the view that Western countries' coordinated expulsions of Russian diplomats following the poisoning in Britain of a former spy have plunged Moscow's relations with the West into a new "Cold War".
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Vladimir Putin Says "Nonsense" To Think Russia Would Poison Spy In Britain
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday it was nonsense to think that Moscow would have poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, who are critically ill in a British hospital.
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Moscow Says Will Retaliate Soon To Britain's Expulsion Of Diplomats
Moscow on Wednesday called Britain's decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats over the poisoning of an ex-spy a sign that London was choosing confrontation with Russia, adding that retaliation would follow shortly.
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Major Australia Terror Attack 'Inevitable', Top Cop Says
Australian authorities say they have prevented 13 terror attacks on home soil in the past few years, including an alleged plot in July to bring down a plane using poisonous gas or a crude bomb disguised as a meat mincer.
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Donald Trump Ordered Syrian Air Strike Before Dinner With Xi Jinping
In a secure room at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, President Donald Trump's top military advisers presented him with three options for punishing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a poison gas attack that killed dozens of civilians
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US Missile Strikes On Syria Send Oil Prices Surging
US officials said the military had fired 59 cruise missiles against a Syrian airbase controlled by Assad's forces, in response to a poison gas attack on Tuesday in a rebel-held area.
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Donald Trump Says 'Something Should Happen' With Bashar al-Assad As US Weighs Military Options
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that "something should happen" with President Bashar al-Assad after a deadly poison gas attack in Syria, as the Pentagon and the White House launched detailed discussions on military options.
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Donald Trump Says Chemical Attack In Syria Went 'Beyond A Red Line'
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government of going "beyond a red line" with a poison gas attack on civilians, but he declined to spell out how or whether his administration would respond.
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Russia Says Syria Gas Incident Caused By Rebels' Own Chemical Arsenal
Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that a poisonous gas contamination in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun was the result of gas leaking from a rebel chemical weapons depot after it was hit by Syrian government air strikes.
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US 'Deeply Disturbed' by Reports of Chemical Weapons in Syria: John Kerry
The United States is deeply disturbed by reports that Syrian government forces attacked the town of Sarmin using chlorine as a weapon on March 16, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement on Thursday.
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Syrian Army Denies Reports that it Killed 6 in Gas Attack
A group monitoring the Syrian civil war said today government forces carried out a poison gas attack that killed six people in the northwest, and medics posted videos of children suffering what they said was suffocation.
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20 Iranian Schoolgirls Hospitalised After Latest Poison Attack
Twenty Iranian schoolgirls were hospitalised on Tuesday after the latest in a mysterious wave of poisoning attacks that have sickened thousands of pupils, state media reported.
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Over 5,000 School Children Poisoned In Iran: Lawmaker
More than 5,000 Iranian schoolchildren have been affected by a spate of poisonings that has targeted mainly female pupils since late November, according to a lawmaker investigating the cases.
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Protests In Iran After Suspected Poison Attacks On Schoolgirls: Report
Worried parents protested in Iran's capital Tehran and other cities on Saturday over a wave of suspected poison attacks that have affected schoolgirls in dozens of schools, according to Iranian news agencies and social media videos.
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New Confirmation Of Chlorine Use In Syria
Global arms experts Wednesday confirmed chlorine was used in a Syrian town in February leaving residents fighting for breath, as the world awaits the results of a probe into last month's alleged poison gas attack on Douma.
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UK Nerve Gas Attack Has Sparked New Cold War, According To Russian Media
Russian media on Tuesday shared the view that Western countries' coordinated expulsions of Russian diplomats following the poisoning in Britain of a former spy have plunged Moscow's relations with the West into a new "Cold War".
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Vladimir Putin Says "Nonsense" To Think Russia Would Poison Spy In Britain
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday it was nonsense to think that Moscow would have poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, who are critically ill in a British hospital.
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Moscow Says Will Retaliate Soon To Britain's Expulsion Of Diplomats
Moscow on Wednesday called Britain's decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats over the poisoning of an ex-spy a sign that London was choosing confrontation with Russia, adding that retaliation would follow shortly.
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Major Australia Terror Attack 'Inevitable', Top Cop Says
Australian authorities say they have prevented 13 terror attacks on home soil in the past few years, including an alleged plot in July to bring down a plane using poisonous gas or a crude bomb disguised as a meat mincer.
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Donald Trump Ordered Syrian Air Strike Before Dinner With Xi Jinping
In a secure room at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, President Donald Trump's top military advisers presented him with three options for punishing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a poison gas attack that killed dozens of civilians
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US Missile Strikes On Syria Send Oil Prices Surging
US officials said the military had fired 59 cruise missiles against a Syrian airbase controlled by Assad's forces, in response to a poison gas attack on Tuesday in a rebel-held area.
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Donald Trump Says 'Something Should Happen' With Bashar al-Assad As US Weighs Military Options
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that "something should happen" with President Bashar al-Assad after a deadly poison gas attack in Syria, as the Pentagon and the White House launched detailed discussions on military options.
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Donald Trump Says Chemical Attack In Syria Went 'Beyond A Red Line'
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government of going "beyond a red line" with a poison gas attack on civilians, but he declined to spell out how or whether his administration would respond.
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Russia Says Syria Gas Incident Caused By Rebels' Own Chemical Arsenal
Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that a poisonous gas contamination in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun was the result of gas leaking from a rebel chemical weapons depot after it was hit by Syrian government air strikes.
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US 'Deeply Disturbed' by Reports of Chemical Weapons in Syria: John Kerry
The United States is deeply disturbed by reports that Syrian government forces attacked the town of Sarmin using chlorine as a weapon on March 16, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement on Thursday.
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Syrian Army Denies Reports that it Killed 6 in Gas Attack
A group monitoring the Syrian civil war said today government forces carried out a poison gas attack that killed six people in the northwest, and medics posted videos of children suffering what they said was suffocation.
