Britain Investigates Chemical Dumping
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Monsanto chemical company is under investigation in the wake of charges it paid contractors to dump highly toxic waste into landfill sites in Britain.
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Police in Britain were attempting on Saturday to determine how former Russian former spy and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko was fatally poisoned.
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A businessman wanted by the US for allegedly shipping thousands of tonnes of chemicals to Saddam Hussein has been detained by police in Holland and accused of complicity in the poison gas attacks that killed thousands of Kurds in the late 1980s.
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A government commission investigating a deadly toxic waste scandal on Thursday blamed the tragedy on negligence and corruption by senior officials and an ill-equipped company set up solely to dump the waste.
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Traces of a radioactive substance are found on two BA planes at Heathrow during probe into ex-spy's death.
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DANISH police found a highly explosive chemical
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Some bath products and shampoos still contain traces of a cancer- causing petrochemical that federal health officials have expressed concerns about for more than 20 years, according to test results announced Thursday by environmental activists.
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Doubts about how much plutonium and uranium is contained in a vast waste tank at Sellafield in Cumbria has led the European commission to prosecute the British government for failing to adhere to proper nuclear safeguards.
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The OECD is to mount a fresh probe into UK anti-bribery laws following the scrapping of an inquiry into BAE.
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British Airways has said that it was under investigation by Britain&#039;s competition authority and the US Department of Justice as part of a probe into the possible fixing of fuel surcharges by airlines.
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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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China's customs authorities have begun checking food exports, like some proteins and glycerine which is used in toothpaste, after a series of health scares abroad involving tainted Chinese-made products.
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Estonia launches a criminal inquiry into the Ivory Coast 'toxic waste' tanker, after finding poisonous chemicals on board.
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The London-based oil company acknowledged that federal investigators were looking into suspected trading irregularities in oil and gasoline markets.
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A report from Britain's Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) said on Friday the bird flu outbreak in Suffolk, UK, was "most likely" linked to the import of poultry products from Hungary.
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LONDON -- The British government began tracking radioactive hotspots in London yesterday 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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British and US regulators continued their inspection of a contaminated vaccine factory in Liverpool, England, as the health agencies for both countries sought on Saturday to clarify how the problems unfolded that likely have cut the United States&#39; flu