To seed a cloud, pilots introduce a chemical agent, commonly silver iodide.
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The highly toxic chemical agent is known to be developed by Russia.
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Demonstrators threw rocks, bottles, and "an unknown chemical agent" at officers, police said.
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No US troops showed signs of having been affected by the chemical agent.
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The U.S. government believes the chemical agent sarin was used in the attack.
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U.K. officials announced that a highly lethal chemical agent was used in the attack.
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There's no reason to hype it up just because mustard is a chemical agent.
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The main chemical agent, known as JWH-231, was named after the Clemson researcher.
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According to Resta, this is the standard process for all chemical-agent exposure evaluations.
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The use of a chemical agent has not yet been certified by an international agency.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said two officers were treated after protesters sprayed them with a chemical agent.
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But his personal doctor, Anastasia Vassilieva, said she believed he had been exposed to a chemical agent.
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Once reconnected, they learned that there had been many other incidents of chemical-agent exposure in Iraq.
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On the other hand, if the gin was flavored with a chemical agent: How was that produced?
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Sulfur mustard is a Class 1 chemical agent, which means it has very few uses outside chemical warfare.
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A twisted call-and-response ensued — where each new chemical agent was met with a more sophisticated countermeasure.
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Casualties are reported to have died from asphyxiation caused by exposure to an unknown gas or chemical agent.
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It's not yet confirmed what chemical agent was involved in the suspected attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib province.
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Defense Technology, which operates under Safariland, offers pepper spray, impact munitions, chemical agent devices, launchers, batons, and others.
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Using an exotic chemical agent produced by a single lab in the Soviet Union isn't one of them.
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One theory is that yams prompt the production of gonadotropins, a chemical agent that stimulates the production of eggs.
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The poisoning marked the first use of a chemical agent on European soil since — not before — the Second World War.
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Mirzayanov fled to the U.S. in 1992, and he's been campaigning to get the chemical agent banned internationally ever since.
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A male EMT, standing at the back of the ambulance, was also found suffering from exposure to an undetermined chemical agent.
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Scores more died in Saturday's attack on Douma, which Western governments and rebels say involved the use of a chemical agent.
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The United States' assessment is that Su-22 bombers took off from the Al Shayrat airfield and delivered the chemical agent.
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We are worried that a new phosphorus chemical agent is being used in chemical weapons, in addition to the identifiable chlorine.
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It looks like pink lemonade, but the water's jarring pink color was caused by a disinfecting chemical agent known as potassium permanganate.
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There were also widespread reports that the Americans had attacked Falluja with white phosphorus, a chemical agent that burns through human skin.
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A guard on the video can be heard saying they sprayed Sabbie with the chemical agent because he wouldn't stop resisting the officers.
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A US military official told CNN, however, that the first field test for chemical agent was positive and the second test was negative.
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After it landed within the base, U.S. troops tested it and received an initial reading for a chemical agent they believe is mustard.
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And there are no reports of chemical agent leakage from the sites, despite attacks by more than 100 sea- and air-launched missiles.
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Kim Jong Nam was killed last month at the Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia by two women who rubbed a chemical agent on him.
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Almost exactly a year later, Mr. Assad seems to have once again unleashed a chemical agent on the besieged suburbs of Damascus, killing dozens.
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A "chemical agent" in vaping liquids is seen as the most likely culprit in the cases, she suggested, responsible for causing the lung injuries.
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Silicon Valley Facebook employees evacuated after a package sent to one of the company's mail facilities tested positive for a poisonous chemical agent on Monday.
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It's not yet confirmed what chemical agent was involved in the attack, but early indicators point to the release of a nerve agent like Sarin.
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Police officers spray a chemical agent at protesters in St. Louis, following the "not guilty" verdict in the murder trial of Jason Stockley, on Sept. 24.
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Had the recent pipe bombs sent to opponents of President Trump contained some form of chemical agent, large sections of Manhattan could still be in lockdown.
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In summer 2017, during what was expected to be a low-risk phase, an unidentified chemical agent in the soil sickened three contractors, halting the excavation.
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This spring, Britain accused Moscow of using a rare chemical agent to poison a former Russian intelligence officer named Sergei Skripal in a botched assassination attempt.
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Dr. Lawan Miwan, head of Emergency Hospital in Irbil, told CNN his hospital is treating two cases with symptoms consistent with exposure to a toxic chemical agent.
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In the lawsuit, Drew Burbridge alleged that he was sprayed twice with a chemical agent, bound by zip ties, and kicked and knocked unconscious by police officers.
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After it landed on the base, just south of Mosul, US troops tested it and received an initial reading for a chemical agent they believe is mustard.
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The latter had done work analyzing "the chemical agent connected to the poisonings of a former GRU officer and others in the United Kingdom," notes the indictment.
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The U.K., followed by France, Germany and U.S., all said they believe Russia was behind the attack, which used a highly lethal chemical agent known as Novichok.
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During World War II, the military exposed about 28503,22019 service members to mustard gas and another chemical agent called lewisite in an effort to test protective equipment.
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Officials are adamant that whatever was used by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces to attack civilians was a chemical agent and that alone justified taking action.
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One of the bombs hit the house of the Taleb family, who, unaware of the chemical agent, hid where they thought they would be safe: the basement.
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At the time, the organisation was studying samples of the chemical agent used in the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal, a Russian double-agent, in Britain in February.
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Breathtaking advances and the real hope of greater ones are owed directly to research on the chemical agent MPTP to produce a nonhuman primate model of Parkinson's disease.
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The Pentagon would not confirm Wednesday whether U.S. forces were exposed to a chemical agent in an attack by the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, over the weekend.
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The British authorities say they were exposed to the nerve agent Novichok, representing the first use of a chemical agent on European soil since the Second World War.
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The comments have drastically ratcheted up tensions ahead of an expected military response by the U.S. and European allies to Syria's alleged use of a banned chemical agent.
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As a result, Assad has continued to have access to chlorine, though its use as a weapon remains just as illegal as that of any other chemical agent.
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U.S. intelligence indicates that the chemical agent was delivered by Syrian Su-22 aircraft that took off from the Shayrat airfield, a White House report given to reporters said.
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The chemical agent, which can cause temporary blindness, high blood pressure, loss of consciousness, and restricted breathing, was used on migrants who were asleep or had just woken up.
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Activists say victims were exposed to a gas and liquid form of the chemical agent that was dropped by a helicopter in a barrel bomb, according to the statement.
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The Charlotte Police Department said on Twitter that two officers were treated after they were sprayed with a chemical agent by demonstrators and that no civilians were injured on Thursday.
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One stage of the registration process also includes instructions on the ICAPS mask -- or Infant Chemical Agent Protective System -- that protects against the effects of biological attacks for up to 12 hours.
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Yes, you can use white phosphorus, a weaponized chemical agent banned for use near civilians under the rules of the Geneva Convention, as a killstreak reward item in the game's competitive multiplayer.
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But Hernandez struck the inmate with closed fist punches to the face, and they engaged in a fight that had to be broken up by chemical agent, according to the offense report.
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Separately, Navalny's lawyer Olga Mikhailova told reporters in front of the hospital that her client had been poisoned by an unidentified chemical agent, a thesis put forward by Vasilyeva a day earlier.
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The aircraft did not have any kind of chemical-agent detector installed, so the pilots were unaware of the presence of toxins until Walker made the Code Four call over the intercom.
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Human Rights Watch interviewed 32 residents of Khan Sheikhoun and reviewed available evidence, corroborating previous accounts that one bomb containing a chemical agent fell after a warplane passed over before 7 a.m.
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About a decade ago, Dr. Quy served as an intermediary between Vietnam and the United States as the countries debated how to jointly address leftover dioxin, the chemical agent in Agent Orange.
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U.S. intelligence indicates that the chemical agent in the attack was delivered by Syrian Su-22 aircraft that took off from the Shayrat airfield, according to a White House report given to reporters.
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The poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter was the first use of a chemical agent on European soil since the Second World War, not since before the Second World War.
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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said that tests on victims and survivors found "incontrovertible evidence" that the chemical agent sarin or a sarin-like toxin was used in Khan Sheikhoun.
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A viral photo showed a woman who's been identified as 39-year-old Maria Lila Meza Castro clutching her twin daughters in diapers as they run from a cloud of the chemical agent.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on Tuesday condemned the use of a chemical agent in the attack last week on a former Russian spy in Britain.
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A massive influx of patients in health centres in Eastern Ghouta (at the very least 100 people) presenting symptoms consistent with exposure to a chemical agent was observed and documented during the early evening.
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The group later said at least 40 people suffocated to death after a helicopter dropped a barrel bomb containing a chemical agent on Douma, a town in the Damascus suburbs known as Eastern Ghouta.
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Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) dispenses millions of drops of chemical agent per second — similar to what the company pioneered with 2D paper printing — onto a thin layer of powdered material, while instantly curing it.
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WASHINGTON — Fighters with the Islamic State fired a shell onto a military base in northern Iraq, home to American and Iraqi troops, that may have contained a chemical agent, military officials said on Wednesday.
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A massive influx of patients in health centers in Eastern Ghouta (at the very least 100 people) presenting symptoms consistent with exposure to a chemical agent was observed and documented during the early evening.
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The ground all around her is strewn with bodies, some wracked with convulsions, thrashing around in the mud as rescue workers attempt in vain to hose off the chemical agent that has blanketed them.
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" He also said the government had invited the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to Syria to investigate the attack: "The Syrian government wants to know who used the chemical agent in Syria.
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The patients, who are being treated in hospital in nearby Irbil, are "showing clinical symptoms consistent with an exposure to a blistering chemical agent," said Robert Mardini, the organization's regional director for the Middle East.
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A spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said in an emailed response that the use of a military-grade chemical agent in a murder attempt on UK soil, which threatened civilians, was "shocking".
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Either the color is the consequence of urine or is the color of the chemical put in to disguise the urine or is the reaction of urine to chlorine or some other unknown chemical agent.
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" While the circumstances in the April 7 attack were "largely consistent with the use of chlorine," it said, the symptoms were more consistent with the use of "another chemical agent, most likely a nerve gas.
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Halla Barakat and her mother Orouba Barakat were strangled and stabbed to death in the Turkish city earlier this week, according to an ABC News report, and doused with a chemical agent to slow decomposition.
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" Today reported that the required permission slip advised that the experiment was "completely voluntary" and that students had the option between being "swabbed" or receiving "a quick 'burst' to the facial area with this chemical agent.
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But some officials noted there were no known casualties at the sites — chemical weapons storage and research facilities — and no reports of chemical-agent leakage, raising questions about whether they were still central to Syria's program.
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This week, he launched "Novichok," a sunflower oil named after the chemical agent the Kremlin is accused of using last month to poison the Russian former spy Sergei V. Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England.
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But some officials noted there were no known casualties at the sites — chemical weapons storage and research facilities, above — and no reports of chemical-agent leakage, raising questions about whether they were still central to Syria's program.
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Part of the Hague-based OPCW's work will be to clarify what chemical agent may have been used, including the possibility that a cocktail of toxins may have been dropped on the neighbourhood using aerial bombs, sources told Reuters.
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FRONT PAGE Because of an editing error, an article on Tuesday about the European Union's response to the recent poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter misstated when a chemical agent was last used on European soil.
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In 1999, just two years after the UK handed over Hong Kong to China, the US authorized the export of chemical agents and chemical agent-dispersing equipment to Hong Kong's government, in addition to handguns and other military gear.
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Rather, the tension, either consciously or unconsciously (we still don't know), is maintained by smooth muscles that are locked in a tight embrace until a chemical agent in the form of a neurotransmitter hits the muscles with a "release" message.
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Update February 25, 2016, 2003:46PM ET: The Help Point kiosks that have been installed in New York City subway stations are modular units that can be updated to include operational 180-degree cameras, chemical agent detection, and audio analysis.
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The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which collected its own samples in the city of Salisbury at Britain's request, did not assign blame for the attack - in which Russia has denied involvement - or specifically name the chemical agent.
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North Korea proved it had no qualms about using chemical weapons when its agents hired two female assassins to kill Kim Jong-nam, Mr. Kim's estranged half brother, with the chemical agent VX in the Kuala Lumpur international airport in February.
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The State Department announced Wednesday that the sanctions would be handed down for what it determined was Russia's use of a chemical agent, Novichok, to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England, in March.
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The research team looked at the 219,22018 police-involved homicides with adult male victims recorded on Fatal Encounters between 2012-2018, focusing on cases where the cause of death was asphyxiation, beating, a chemical agent, a medical emergency, a taser or a gunshot.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government believes the chemical agent sarin was used in an attack in the northwestern province of Idlib on Tuesday that was "almost certainly" carried out by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a U.S. government source said.
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" Angelica Salas, executive director of The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, said in a statement: "It is a despicable act on the part of the Trump administration and CBP officials to attack defenseless women and children firing tear gas, a chemical agent, at them.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Islamic State militants are "dead set" on using chemical arms and are likely to try them again as Iraqi forces advance on Mosul, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday, a week after a rocket with a possible chemical agent landed near U.S. troops.
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Police use-of-force, which includes asphyxiation, beating, use of a chemical agent, instances involving a medical emergency, a Taser, or a gunshot, is the sixth leading cause of death behind accidental death, suicide, homicide, heart disease, and cancer, according to a from Rutgers.
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The first big cameo comes when Ryan Reynolds shows up in the movie as Locke, a CIA agent who has a past with Johnson's Hobbs character and fills him in on on the deadly chemical agent that Hobbs will eventually team with Shaw (Jason Statham) to retrieve.
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While Central Collegiate High School Principal David Oclander tells VICE he's still investigating exactly what happened on Tuesday afternoon, he concedes that a chemical agent—or "crowd control devices," as he referred to them a day earlier in a statement to the Detroit Free Press—was used on students.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump agreed with British Prime Minister Theresa May that Russia must provide "unambiguous answers" about how a Russian-developed chemical agent came to be used against a Russian double agent in Britain, the White House said on Tuesday after the two leaders spoke.
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But the company's press office declined to issue an outright denial, and close Russia-watchers called the notion at least plausible, especially in light of the recent poisoning claims about former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal, who was dosed with a rare chemical agent in England earlier this spring.
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Those with religious exemptions for beards will be barred from military schools with toxic chemical agent training and from assignments needing compliance with biological, chemical or nuclear safety requirements until the Army does further research on masks that both fit beards and meet safety requirements, according to the memo.
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Another US official familiar with how the US intelligence is unfolding regarding the attack tells CNN that the initial intelligence assessment that a chemical agent was used was based on viewing the videos and comparing the shown physical effects with what is known about chlorine and nerve agents.
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Another US official familiar with how the US intelligence is unfolding regarding the chemical attack tells CNN that the initial intelligence assessment -- that a chemical agent was used -- is based on viewing the videos and comparing the shown physical effects with what is known about both chlorine and nerve agents.
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According to Ms. Zaretsky, in the 1950s he helped pioneer the use of the tranquilizer that became known as thorazine and refrigerated blankets to lower body temperature during surgery, as well as the use of thorazine to control hiccups, and that he also discovered a chemical agent for clearing bladder infections.
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RELATED - Trump: US troops 'fighting like never before' in Iraq Activist groups blamed Assad's regime for a Tuesday attack where dozens of people, including at least 10 children, were killed and more than 200 were injured as a result of asphyxiation caused by exposure to an unknown gas or chemical agent in northern Syria.
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In response to Saturday's nerve or chemical agent attack against Syrian civilians, maybe done by Syrian government forces as they press their offensive against the last rebel strongholds near Damascus, the White House has announced "major decisions" were imminent in the next 2628 hours, even though the U.S. isn't sure who did it. Sen.
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Whitley herself pioneered mustard gas, a noxious chemical agent that wracked the battlefields of Somme with agonized gasps (and has since morphed into its modern incarnation, tear gas—which was banned by the Geneva Convention in 2014, but has still found its way into the hands of cops and the lungs of protesters from Ferguson to Palestine).
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Mattis said the "pretty obvious" Russian use of a chemical agent was deployed "for the first time in Europe since World War II." NATO earlier in the day said it was expelling seven diplomats from Russia's mission to the alliance and denying accreditation to three more as part of a coordinated effort with other countries to punish Moscow for the poisoning.
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Leadership analysis might give clues Russian defense minister: 'We won't do anything' in Europe unless US places missiles there MORE who is serving a 30-day sentence in jail for organizing an unsanctioned protest, was returned to his cell from a hospital on Monday after developing symptoms his physician said could be reactions to a chemical agent and his lawyer said could be poison.
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The OPCW's fact-finding mission, which was already investigating the use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war, was gathering all available material to establish whether chemical weapons were used, it said in a statement Part of the Hague-based OPCW's work will be to clarify what chemical agent may have been used, including the possibility that a cocktail of toxins may have been dropped on the neighborhood.
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