Chemical Weapons
MOSCOW - Russia will delay its deadline for destroying chemical weapons stockpiles by as much as three years due to budget and technical problems, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
TOKYO - A Tokyo court rejected compensation claims Monday by a group of Chinese plaintiffs over the death and the sickening of 44 people after construction workers broke open several barrels of World War II poison gas abandoned by Japanese troops.
DENVER - A draft environmental assessment predicts no significant impacts from a new plan to destroy thousands of mustard weapons at the Army's Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado.