Poisoning

Poisoning

• Crucial evidence to be secret in Litvinenko probe

  A coroner overseeing a British inquest into the 2006 poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko ruled Friday he has to exclude evidence on whether the ... 

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  Hitler's food taster tells of poisoning fears

  They were feasts of sublime asparagus — laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even ... 

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  Irish jury: Poor care killed woman denied abortion

  A miscarrying Indian woman who died from blood poisoning in an Irish hospital after being denied an abortion perished because staff bungled her ... 

• Litvinenko death inquest postponed until October

  The start of a long-delayed inquest into the death of a former Russian intelligence agent poisoned in London has been postponed for another five ... 

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  Suspect in Russian spy murder pulls out of inquest

  The main suspect in the grisly poisoning of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London withdrew on Tuesday from the British inquest into the murder, ... 

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  UK judge to hold secret hearing in Litvinenko case

  A British judge said Wednesday that he will hold a secret hearing to assess whether some evidence about the death of former Russian agent Alexander ... 

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  Taliban kill 17 Afghans in attack in east

  Taliban insurgents poisoned, then shot and killed 17 people as they slept at a local police post in eastern Afghanistan, one of two attacks in as many ... 

• Police: 4 men found dead in central Serbia house

  Police say they have discovered four dead people inside a house in central Serbia and local media reports suggest they died from carbon monoxide ... 

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  2nd Winehouse inquest confirms alcohol death

  Amy Winehouse died from accidental alcohol poisoning when she resumed drinking after a period of abstinence, a second coroner's inquest confirmed ... 

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  Lawyer: Killed Kremlin critic worked for UK spies

  Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian agent-turned-Kremlin critic, was a "registered and paid" agent working for Britain's foreign intelligence ... 

• Autopsy on former Turkish leader inconclusive

  Authorities investigating former President Turgut Ozal's death in office in April 1993 found traces of toxic material in samples from his exhumed body ... 

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  Arafat grave dug up for probe of poison suspicion

  Eight years after Yasser Arafat's mysterious death, his political heirs opened his grave Tuesday and let forensics experts take samples from his ...