Ukraine minister says Sergei Skripal poisoning suspect helped Yanukovic flee in 2014
Ukraine's interior minister said on Tuesday a suspect in the Skripal poisoning case, working for Russian military intelligence, had been identified in Ukraine as a man who helped the former Ukrainian president flee to Russia in 2014. It was not immediately clear whether minister Arsen ...
An anti-Kremlin activist lost his sight, hearing and ability to walk in a suspected poisoning last week but is doing better since he arrived in Berlin for treatment, two friends said Sunday. Pyotr Verzilov, publisher of a Russian online news outlet and affiliated with the ...
Ex-nurse in Yokohama arrested second time on poisoning charge as multiple deaths probed anew
In a serial murder case involving a Yokohama hospital, a former nurse has been arrested anew for allegedly poisoning a second patient at the hospital where she once worked. The suspect, Ayumi Kuboki, 31, allegedly poisoned Nobuo Yamaki, 88, while he was a patient at ...
Murdered North Korean Kim Jong Nam had $100,000 in backpack, police witness says
The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was carrying $100,000 in cash in his backpack at the time of his murder, the police officer investigating the case told a Malaysian court on Wednesday. Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Doan Thi Huong, 28, a ...
Japan Times 1967: 'New "James Bond" film drawing huge crowds'
Despite the unfavorable publicity it received during its filming in Japan last year, Eon Films' "You Only Live Twice," the latest of the "James Bond" series, is drawing the biggest crowds since "Thunderball," another Bond released in December 1965
Police suspect inside job in fatal drip poisonings at Yokohama hospital
Police increasingly suspect that the killing of two patients at a hospital in Yokohama may have been conducted by a person connected with the facility and with medical knowledge, investigative sources said Thursday. The person may also have randomly sought to tamper with intravenous drips ...
Serial poisoner may have injected toxin into multiple drip bags at Yokohama hospital
Police investigating a possible serial poisoner at a Yokohama hospital believe the killer injected a toxin into multiple intravenous drip bags after they were brought out of storage. A chemical used in disinfectant that likely killed two elderly male patients at Oguchi Hospital may have ...
President Vladimir Putin probably approved a plan by Russia's FSB security service to kill former agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died three weeks after drinking tea laced with poison at a London hotel, a British judge said Thursday. In a lengthy report, Judge Robert Owen said ...
Japanese man dies after daily heavy consumption of caffeinated beverages
A Kyushu man in his 20s died last year from caffeine intoxication after drinking large quantities of caffeinated beverages daily over a long period to fight fatigue, researchers at Fukuoka University said. Although something, possibly part of a caffeine pill, was extracted from his stomach, ...
French prosecutors end probe into whether Arafat was fatally poisoned
French investigating magistrates have decided to drop an inquiry into the death in France of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whose widow alleged he was poisoned, the prosecutors office said on Wednesday. A lawyer for his widow, Suha Arafat, who has argued that his death ...
'Unprecedented' life sentence sought for exec in peanut salmonella case
Federal court officers have recommended a sentence of life in prison for a peanut company executive convicted of selling salmonella-tainted food, a move that attorneys on both sides called "unprecedented" for a food-poisoning case. The potential life sentence for former Peanut Corporation of America owner ...
Key suspect in Litvinenko death says he'll take part in U.K. inquiry
A prime suspect in the poisoning of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko appears to have broken his silence to say he will cooperate with a British inquiry into the death. Inquiry attorney Robin Tam said Thursday that a man calling himself Dmitry Kovtun had contacted ...
