The U.S. State Department accused Russia on May 1 of having used a chemical weapon against Ukrainian forces in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, while also announcing fresh sanctions ...

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Washington: The US Department of State has accused Russia of using chemical weapons in Ukraine, including the notorious choking agent called Chloropicrin, which is banned under an international ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday accused Russia of violating the international chemical weapons ban by deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and using ...

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See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google WASHINGTON – Russian forces are deploying an internationally banned choking gas to drive Ukrainian forces from their ...

The United States has formally accused Russia of using chemical weapons “as a method of warfare” against Ukraine and imposed sweeping new sanctions on Russian firms and government bodies. In a ...

Chloropicrin was first used on potato in 1940 as a wireworm suppressant and then in 1965 as a verticillium suppressant. Farmers stopped using it on potato for many years, but over the last decade, it ...

FRESNO — Farmers in California now must abide by the nation’s strictest rules for a widely used pesticide under heightened regulations designed to protect farmworkers and people who live and work near ...

(Beyond Pesticides, October 9, 2007) Two state agencies and the U.S. EPA are close to completing an investigation of the poisoning of over 100 farmworkers in Nevada two weeks ago. Chloropicrin, an ...