No options are off the table if Syria's ruling regime refuses to seriously engage in an international conference to broker peace in the country, Foreign Secretary William Hague said today.
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Saturday 13 August 2011
A BBC sound recordist has died from inhaling mustard gas in the 1980s while investigating the use of chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war.
A happy ending to the worst atrocity of Saddam's regime
Wednesday 10 November 2010
Court refuses poison gas payout
Tuesday 25 May 2010
A Tokyo court rejected compensation claims yesterday by a group of Chinese plaintiffs who suffered a death and ill health when construction workers broke open several barrels of poison gas abandoned by Japanese troops in the Second World War.
Neo-Nazi given 10 years for making chemical weapons
Saturday 15 May 2010
A white supremacist who became the first person to be sentenced for producing a chemical weapon was jailed for 10 years yesterday. Ian Davison, 41, made enough ricin to kill nine people and kept it in a jar in his kitchen for two years.
White supremacist jailed over chemical weapon
Friday 14 May 2010
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Thursday 06 May 2010
Teenage racist convicted of terror charges
Friday 30 April 2010
A teenage white supremacist was convicted today of three counts of possessing terror documents.
'White supremacist plotted terror acts'
Wednesday 14 April 2010
A teenage white supremacist was behind a neo-Nazi group that wanted to overthrow the Government, a court heard today.
Obama poised to soften US nuclear strike policy
Tuesday 06 April 2010
The Obama administration is poised to adopt a new policy potentially restricting the nation's use of nuclear arms, US officials said, and hopes to persuade Russia to agree to mutual cuts in nuclear arsenals that go beyond the arms treaty both sides will sign this week.
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Friday 05 March 2010
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Saturday 12 December 2009
Tony Blair said he believes it still would have been right to have invaded Iraq even if it was known then that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction.
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Sunday 29 November 2009
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Thursday 26 November 2009
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