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Scientists have been raising the alarm about dioxins since the 1960s. After TCDD, the dioxin in Agent Orange, was found to cause cancer and birth defects, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) slapped an emergency ban on the herbicide in 1979. Dow and Monsanto, the chemical's largest manufacturers, eventually...
Magnitsky's death has triggered a wave of public discussion in Russia - reaching as high as the Kremlin - about the squalid conditions in the country's jails and bureaucratic incompetence. But it has also renewed focus on an odious criminal practice that embodies what President Dmitry Medvedev describes as the...
Hermitage claims it was targeted in just such an attack two years ago and that Magnitsky was arrested in retaliation for going public with the scam. According to Magnitsky, the raid began in June 2007, when police burst into Hermitage's offices with warrants and seized company records, corporate seals...
It is a tricky balance, especially in a year that saw a series of sensitive anniversaries. March marked one year after riots broke out in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa; June was the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown; and - biggest of all - on Oct. 1, China marked the 60th...
A source close to the navy told TIME, "The marines, besides having excellent intelligence and keen analysis, have discipline and esprit de corps, have all the tools that are needed to be successful in this so-called war. Now the question is, Will they be on the street, like the...