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People wearing gas masks and posters reading “Stop to the chemical weapons” during a protest in front of the Albanian Embassy in Skopje, Macedonia, on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013. (AP)
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A UN vehicle is seen near a photo of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad at the entrance of a hotel where a team of experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are staying in Damascus October 8, 2013. (REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri)
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2nd chemical weapons team heading for Syria
The Hague, Associated Press—The chief of the global chemical weapons watchdog said Tuesday the organization is sending a second team of inspectors to Syria to expand its high-stakes, high-risk mission to rid Syria of its poison gas stockpile. Ahmet Uzumcu,...UN: Destruction of Syrian chemical program begins
Beirut, Associated Press—International inspectors began the enormous task Sunday of destroying Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons and the machinery used to create it, a United Nations official said, racing to meet a tight deadline to eliminate President...Caption:
A file picture dated August 31, 2103, shows UN weapons inspectors arriving at the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, The Netherlands. (EPA/Guus Schoonewille)
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