Russia poison scare women in US
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Two Soviet-born US women return for treatment in Los Angeles for suspected thallium poisoning.
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MOSCOW -- In the bloodstained post-Soviet period, feuds over money and power have often been solved by bullets or bombs. But confirmation that Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was disfigured by dioxin draws attention to suspicious cases in Russia in which poison may have been used to silence political foes and settle business scores.
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A friend of a poisoned Russian dissident said they both received e-mail threats days before he was taken ill.
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The United States on Monday urged the Ukrainian government to fully investigate the &quot;terrible&quot;poisoning of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko with the highly toxic substance dioxin.
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A Los Angeles hospital confirmed on  Friday that two U.S. women who became ill during a trip to  their native Russia, prompting investigations by both  countries, were suffering from thallium poisoning.
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Russian men risk death by drinking aftershave and cleaning agents with high levels of alcohol, a study suggests.
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To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here Yes, thereâs only been story in the news this week. Rogue Russian agents have apparently been racing around the UK, knocking off ex-KGB spies, and endangering sushi chefs, flight attendants and Italian Academics, using rare radioactive isotopes. The fact that it was Polonium 210 that was used to permanently shut-up former KGB man Alexander Litvinenko was taken as proof of Russian state involvement. Only past poison experts such as the KGB had access to such a devastating material, it was reasoned. Well, only them and anyone with a web connection, a credit card and the web address for United Nuclear. So, beware come office party season. If the cocktails look a little more lurid than usual, someone may well be settling scores.â¦
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Russian depth simply short-circuited American power. Even without two injured players, Russia still had enough tennis talent to overcome slugging Venus Williams and the United States, 3-2, yesterday in Stowe, Vt., in the semifinals of the Fed Cup.
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The number of sites contaminated in the Russian spy radiation poisoning case has doubled to 12 and is likely to rise again, British Home Secretary John Reid said. He disclosed that two more jetliners have been caught up in the scare -- although one was later given a clean bill of health.
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The illness that disfigured the face of opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko resulted from poisoning by the toxic substance dioxin, which might have been placed
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CHICAGO -- Dangerous levels of lead, mercury and arsenic have been found in some herbal remedies from India that are sold in the United States, researchers are warning.
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The US Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that a strong new warning will be issued for the medical-abortion drug known as RU-486, citing the risk of &quot;rare but serious complications that may occur with any abortion.
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A former Russian spy and fierce critic of the Kremlin who is fighting for his life in a London hospital may have been given a radioactive poison, a doctor said Tuesday.
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The US government has warned its citizens in Nordic and Baltic states of the threat of imminent terrorist attacks, the BBC said Monday.
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The widow of the poisoned ex-spy Alexander V. Litvinenko said he worried about the safety of exiles after Russia passed a law legalizing attacks beyond its borders.
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The United States has warned its citizens in the Nordic and Baltic states to be extra vigilant after receiving &quot;threat information&quot; on the eve of the US presidential election.
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Tests confirmed Friday that two American women hospitalized after they became ill on a trip to Russia were poisoned by thallium, but the women believe it was accidental, their lawyer and the hospital said.