Malaysian police said Friday that chemical weapon substance had been identified on the body of a Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) man who died in the country on Feb. 13.
Syrian government forces used chemical weapons in opposition-controlled parts of Aleppo during battles to retake the city late last year, Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Monday.
A rocket fired by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) at US forces in Iraq may have carried a chemical agent, a US defence official said on Wednesday (Sept 21).
The Japanese governemnt said on Tuesday that the country's constitution does not ban chemical or biological weapons, triggering outrages among people.
The northern Chinese coastal city of Tianjin has asked plants that produce dangerous chemicals to submit daily safety reports, the city's mayor said on Thursday.
Tianjin will start a 29-billion-yuan relocation of two large chemical plants in 2016 following massive blasts of a chemical warehouse that killed more than 160 people in 2015, local sources has said.
China demanded Japan accelerate the destruction of chemical weapons abandoned in China during World War II following a destruction operation that ended in Central Hubei Province on Monday.
A Myanmar industrial official has called for developing chemical industries in the country, especially petrochemical industry, saying that the country has potential for such large-scale undertakings, sources with the Ministry of Industry said Wednesday.
China and Japan set up a foundation on Tuesday to aid Chinese victims of chemical bombs abandoned by Japanese troops during World War II.
The chief of the joint UN- Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) mission in Syria told the UN Security Council Thursday that 96 percent of Syria's declared chemical weapons stockpile has been destroyed and only a dozen production facilities remain to be destroyed.
The OPCW-UN joint mission has made "significantly good progress" in eliminating Syria's chemical stockpiles.
The United Nations- Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Joint Mission announced Monday that Syria has removed all of its declared chemical arsenal from its territory.
A joint mission overseeing the elimination of chemical weapons program in Syria confirmed on Tuesday that the country has destroyed all its declared arsenal of a chemical called Isopropanol, a UN spokesman told reporter here
More than 90 percent of Syria's chemical weapons material has been removed and destroyed, said Sigrid Kaag, the head of the Joint Mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations Thursday.
Approximately 80 percent of the chemical weapons materials have been shipped out of Syria or destroyed, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at a regular news briefing held Monday.
The special coordinator overseeing the elimination of chemical weapons in Syria said on Wednesday that the end-of-June deadline for the total destruction of the program was still achievable.
In a study of 53 perfumes and aftershaves, six were found to contain a high amount of dangerous hormone-affecting chemical diethyl phthalate (DEP), an Austrian environmental protection organization said Thursday.
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