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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 ...
New tests could hamper food outbreak detection
New tests that promise to speed up diagnosis of food poisoning pose an unexpected problem: They could make it more difficult to identify dangerous ...
Scare prompts look at carbon monoxide detectors
It's odorless, colorless and deadly. And if carbon monoxide is leaking in a school, it might not be detected until people are ill. A leak at an ...
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 ...
3rd person dies in Calif. from mushroom poisoning
A third person has died from eating poisonous mushrooms at a California senior care facility where a caretaker found the fungus in the backyard and ...
Mercury poisoning of Danish astronomer ruled out
Ever since Tycho Brahe died suddenly more than 400 years ago, there has been mystery about whether the Dane whose celestial observations laid the ...
Group: Nigeria lead poisoning crisis still ongoing
A group is warning that a lead poisoning crisis in northern Nigeria is still ongoing and affecting children, while government money has yet to be ...
Ireland probes death of ill abortion-seeker
The debate over legalizing abortion in Ireland flared Wednesday after the government confirmed that a woman in the midst of a miscarriage was refused ...
Russian spy case details may be made public
A British inquest into the killing of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko may make public previously unreleased details about the murder ...
Benin: 3 held for alleged attempt to poison leader
A Benin police official says at least three people close to the West African country's president have been arrested on suspicion of attempting to ...
French dog poisoned and buried alive survives
A Jack Russell terrier has survived after being poisoned and buried alive — and he can thank the man who saw the ground wiggle. Ethan came back to ...
Palestinians: 2 teams to probe Arafat's death
Investigators from France and Switzerland will conduct parallel probes into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Palestinian officials said ...
Police probe alleged poisoning of dogs in Moscow
Vera Lesovets held up photographs of her dog, Yasha, a spunky 5-year-old corgi, nipping playfully at the heels of a German shepherd twice her size.
UK judge says Litvinenko inquest to open in 2013
A long-awaited inquest into the poisoning death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko should consider whether Russian authorities were ...
Methanol kills 19, injures 24 in central Europe
) — At least 19 people are dead and 24 others hospitalized. Some of them have been blinded, while others have been induced into comas in the hope that ...
7 poisoned in Czech Republic by bootleg liquor
At least four more people have died in the Czech Republic after drinking bootleg alcohol tainted with toxic methanol, bringing the death toll to seven ...
APNewsBreak: FDA warns Iowa egg firm over bacteria
A company that promised to clean up Iowa's egg industry after a nationwide salmonella outbreak in 2010 said Friday that a recent government safety ...
French judges to exhume Arafat body in West Bank
The widow of Yasser Arafat said Wednesday that French investigators will soon visit the West Bank to dig up the remains of her husband in hopes of ...
Official: Nigeria first lady hospitalized abroad
The wife of Nigeria's president remains hospitalized in Germany following a severe bout of food poisoning that's lasted for days, a government ...
French probe deepens confusion over Arafat death
A French murder probe into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat prompted an Israeli denial of responsibility on Wednesday and renewed doubts ...
SW Ind. farm source of some contaminated melons
Health officials say a farm in southwestern Indiana was the source of at least some of the salmonella-contaminated cantaloupe that has made at least ...
New Arafat medical file released in death probe
Medical files released for the first time Thursday portray Yasser Arafat as a robust 75-year-old whose sudden health crisis, a month before his ...
Clinton: US won't react to Arafat poisoning rumors
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. will wait for the results of any new investigation into Yasser Arafat's death and won't ...