Media ID: 55368131
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Police officers gather outside the morgue at Kuala Lumpur General Hospital where Kim Jong Nam’s body was held for autopsy in Malaysia February 16, 2017. REUTERS/Edgar Su
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 25, 2017 | World
Kuala Lumpur- VX nerve agent, a chemical the United Nations classifies as a weapon of mass destruction, was used to kill the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a bizarre murder in Malaysia last week, police said on Friday. Kim Jong Nam was...
Media ID: 55316565
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Members of a UN investigation team take samples in the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. (AP Photo/United media office of Arbeen)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 11, 2013 | Middle East
Washington and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Russian proposal to place Syria’s chemical weapons under international supervision would require the complete cooperation of a regime which is very secretive about its arsenal, in an operation which is difficult to...