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Ukraine minister says Sergei Skripal poisoning suspect helped Yanukovic flee in 2014

World Oct 3, 2018

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 ...

Pussy Riot-linked anti-Kremlin activist seen doing better in German hospital after apparent poisoning in Moscow

World / Crime & Legal Sep 17, 2018

Pussy Riot-linked anti-Kremlin activist seen doing better in German hospital after apparent poisoning in Moscow

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 ...

National / Crime & Legal Jul 29, 2018

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

Asia Pacific Oct 12, 2017

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'

National / History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Jun 3, 2017

Japan Times 1967: 'New "James Bond" film drawing huge crowds'

by Elliott Samuels

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

National / Crime & Legal Sep 30, 2016

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

National Sep 28, 2016

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 ...

National / Science & Health Dec 21, 2015

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

World / Crime & Legal Sep 3, 2015

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 ...

National / Crime & Legal Feb 2, 2015

Nagoya student made no effort to hide victim's corpse

A female 19-year-old student who has admitted killing an elderly woman and poisoning a male high school classmate appeared to show no discomfort over what she did, allowing the woman’s corpse to remain in her apartment for weeks as it decomposed.

National / Crime & Legal Jan 29, 2015

Alleged black widow gets second cyanide charge

A woman charged with poisoning her husband faces a second murder charge, bolstering suspicions she had a hand in the deaths of several other former partners.

Court denies Nabari poisonings retrial of death-row inmate jailed since 1961

National / Crime & Legal May 28, 2014

Court denies Nabari poisonings retrial of death-row inmate jailed since 1961

An ailing 88-year-old man on death row has had his eighth petition for a retrial thrown out by the Nagoya High Court, his lawyers say.

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