With thousands of girls falling ill and claims of poisonings, Iranians held the first wide-scale protests in months.
Tag: Poisoning and Poisons
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The Brave Man Whom Putin Wants to Kill
As the dissident Aleksei Navalny is tormented in a Russian prison cell, his daughter studies at Stanford and tries to keep her dad alive.
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Cough Syrup: What We Know About Tainted Medicine from India
Tainted syrup from India may be connected to the deaths of dozens of children in Gambia, officials said. Indonesia banned cough syrup sales, though the link there is unclear.
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Texas Man Convicted of Sex Crimes Took Deadly Drink in Court, Lawyers Say
Prosecutors believe that Edward Peter Leclair slipped poison into his bottled water and drank it, choosing death instead of prison time.
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Why Don’t Many Hotels Install Carbon Monoxide Alarms?
Three carbon monoxide deaths at a resort in the Bahamas called attention to the dangers of the odorless gas. In the U.S., where it often takes multiple poisonings for hotels to install alarms, a debate about detector policies has been intensifying.