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Ahmet Üzümcü, left, director of the OPCW, speaks during a press conference in Tripoli, Libya on February 4, 2014. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Turkia)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 5, 2014 | Middle East
Tripoli, AP—Libya’s caches of chemical weapons, including bombs and artillery shells filled with mustard gas, have been completely destroyed, the country’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. “Libya is totally empty of any presence of chemical weapons . . ....
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 11, 2013 | World
Oslo, AP—The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to stop the chemical warfare that has haunted the world from Hitler’s gas chambers to the battlefields of Syria. Based in...
