Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the Kremlin with a lethal toxin derived from the skin of poison dart frogs, five European countries said Saturday.
The sole survivor of a deadly lunch laced with toxic mushrooms said Monday he felt only half alive following the death of his wife and he continued to grieve the loss of his two closest friends.
A mafia hitman in Italy allegedly poisoned a Catholic priest’s communion chalice in a small town after the holy cleric spoke out against organized crime.
A Canadian man has reportedly been arrested by police after allegedly selling poison to suicidal individuals online.
A Russian-born woman who tried to poison her lookalike friend with cheesecake received a 21-year prison sentence Wednesday in New York City.
The White House said on Thursday that reports of hundreds of Iranian girls in dozens of schools suffering from exposure to toxic gas are “deeply concerning.”
A popular Iranian Telegram channel affiliated with the theocratic republic’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) appeared to threaten the life of former President Donald Trump along with the lives of leading United States defense officials, following the third anniversary of slain Iranian General Qassim Soleimani’s death.
Former Secretary of State and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign staffers were so paranoid they actually thought the Russians would poison her via a handshake with her opposing candidate for president, Donald Trump, at one of their debates, a forthcoming book reveals.
Both U.S. and Ukrainian officials on Monday denied an unsubstantiated rumor that negotiators working to end the war in Ukraine, including Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, were poisoned this month.
Seven people have received medical treatment, and prosecutors have opened an investigation into suspicions of attempted murder.
Kindergarten teacher Wang Yun was sentenced to death on Monday by a court in China’s Henan province for putting sodium nitrite poison into porridge that was served to students for breakfast. The March 2019 incident made 25 children sick, killing one of them after a protracted illness.
Hours after the Russian government skeptically requested exhaustive details from German doctors who said traces of poison were found in comatose Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Germany announced there is “unequivocal proof” that Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, the same nerve agent Russia used in a bungled attempt to assassinate former intelligence agent Sergey Skripal and his daughter in London two years ago.
The Russian government continued to signal its disinterest on Wednesday in investigating the “illness” of Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader widely suspected of being poisoned while aboard an aircraft last week.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been frequently arrested and legally harassed for his unrelenting criticism of President Vladimir Putin, became seriously ill while flying from Siberia to moscow on Thursday and was placed on a ventilator. Navalny spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh claimed he has been poisoned.
The mayor of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib, has been placed under police protection amidst claims that the Russian government had attempted to poison those responsible for removing a statue of a Soviet general statue from the city. The mayor and Ondřej
A man who spayed a female prison guard with urine while on remand has been imprisoned for “administering poison” in a first-of-its-kind conviction.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, currently serving a 30-day jail sentence for violating Russia’s strict laws on political protests, was hospitalized Sunday morning with symptoms that resembled an acute allergic reaction.
A Missouri prison nurse fatally poisoned her husband with antifreeze and set their home ablaze to hide the evidence as part of a plan to marry a convicted killer serving a life sentence in prison, police said.
LONDON (AP) — One of the two suspects in the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in England is a medical doctor in Russian military intelligence who was honored as a Hero of the Russian Federation by President Vladimir Putin in 2014, a group of British investigators said Tuesday.
A Pennsylvania mother is facing homicide charges after she gave her 17-month-old daughter a drink containing fentanyl in a sippy cup, police said.
Police Race to Find Source of New Nerve Agent Poisoning
BEIRUT — Syrian activists, rescuers and medics said Sunday that a poison gas attack on a rebel-held town near the capital has killed at least 40 people, allegations denied by the Syrian government.
The Cambridge Analytica employee who revealed the company’s alleged Facebook data mining has stated that he believes his predecessor may have been poisoned.
A former government minister has said Russia could be guilty of “a brazen act of war” if they attempted to assassinate a former spy in Salisbury, whilst a Labour MP called Russia a “terrorist” state.
An Eritrean asylum seeker and his British Muslim partner have been found guilty of plotting an Islamic State-inspired terror attack over the Christmas period.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Croatian state TV reported Wednesday that a convicted Croat war criminal has died after swallowing what he said was poison seconds after a United Nations judge confirmed his 20-year sentence for involvement in crimes during the Bosnian war of the 1990s.
An unhappily married Pakistani woman claims the 17 people she murdered were unintended victims of a botched plan to poison her husband and end her arranged marriage so that she could be with her boyfriend.
A Chinese fashion blogger reportedly accidentally poisoned herself during a live stream after mistaking a poisonous plant for an aloe vera plant.
Police in Iceland are investigating a poison attack on Robert Spencer, an American expert on Islam who was also the 2015 target of a jihad assault in Garland, Texas.
Strange developments continue in the politically-charged Kim Jong-nam murder case, which has created a good deal of tension between China, North Korea, and Malaysia where the assassination occurred.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s official TV network has been airing a video several times a day accusing Israel of poisoning former leader Yasser Arafat and further claiming that Israel is targeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas next.
The UK Daily Mail relays a report from Iraqi news agency WAA that the “caliph” of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and three other ISIS commanders have been poisoned and “have been transferred to an unknown location under strict measures.”
British retired High Court Judge Robert Owen concluded Russian President Vladimir Putin “probably” ordered two former officials to poison ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.
Nearly 300 schoolgirls, including kindergarteners, and female teachers have reportedly been poisoned this week in the western Afghan province of Herat and the Taliban, which is opposed to women’s access to education, is suspected to be behind the three gas poisoning incidents.
Fox News reports an Ohio man with serious mental issues threatened to poison House Speaker John Boehner,and was in a position to make good on his threat last fall, as he was tending bar at a country club Boehner frequented.
