Top U.N. staff begin probe of chemical warfare agent
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday summoned to New York top U.N. officials from a meeting abroad to find out how a potentially lethal chemical warfare agent was stored in U.N. offices in Manhattan.
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Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as &quot;Chemical Ali,&quot; appeared on Saturday before an investigating magistrate, kicking off the process of trials of Iraq&#39;s former top officials.
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Officials investigate why  seemingly harmless chemicals were mistaken for bio-warfare agents at a UN building.
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A key probe into the U.N.  oil-for-food program in Iraq was sharply critical of U.N.  management and found that the U.N. official running the  operation had steered oil contracts to a particular firm.
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Investigators probing alleged corruption at the United Nations oil-for-food program are scrutinizing thousands of pages of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's documents, including e-mail and phone records, to determine whether he exerted influence in securing a contract for a Swiss company that employed his son.
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U.N. officials on Thursday defended elaborate precautions they took in a Manhattan office last week after finding possible toxic chemicals, which tests now indicate was a commercial solvent.
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KIEV, Ukraine, Sept. 22 -- Ukrainian prosecutors said Wednesday they had opened a criminal investigation into the alleged poisoning of a leading candidate in presidential elections scheduled for next month.
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Iraqi scientists will assess pollution ranging from oil spills to scrap metal from destroyed military vehicles in an effort to tackle environmental damage in the war-ravaged country, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 30 -- U.N. weapons inspectors stumbled upon evidence of Saddam Hussein's elusive weapons of mass destruction: a vial of potentially lethal chemical gas that was stored in a U.N. shipping crate in Midtown Manhattan more than 10 years ago and forgotten, U.N. officials announced...
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The U.N atomic watchdog has discovered plutonium particles near an Egyptian nuclear facility and is trying to determine if they are evidence of a secret weapons program or simply the byproduct of peaceful research, diplomats said Friday.
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A U.N. inquiry has identified people who may have been involved in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and is investigating new information about the buyers of a van used in the bombing, the chief investigator said Thursday.
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A substance removed from the United Nations office last week is not a toxic chemical agent, police and a U.N. official told CNN on Thursday.
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Officials will investigate the apparent poisoning of Ukraine's opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko.
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British police are working out how former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko might have been poisoned with a highly toxic radioactive substance, and who could be behind it.
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The British government began tracking radioactive hotspots in London on Monday to trace the poison that killed a former KGB agent, and three people who reported possible symptoms of contamination underwent testing.
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The United Nations' top humanitarian official inspected firsthand the destruction wrought by Israeli air raids on south Beirut as he began a relief mission to Lebanon on Sunday.
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United Nations security officials have declared a state of "heightened awareness" for U.N. relief workers in Indonesia pending investigation of a warning issued by the Danish Foreign Ministry, a spokeswoman said Monday.