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Emiliano Sala was poisoned by toxic levels of carbon monoxide before his plane crashed into the English Channel, investigators have said. The Cardiff City footballer was on his way to the club after signing a contract with them in January when the Piper Malibu aeroplane disappeared from radar. An investigation was launched on the …

When Mr. Putin spoke, “it was a rocket with a nuclear engine,” Yulia Latinina, a columnist for Novaya Gazeta, an opposition newspaper, wrote. “And when it blows up it is a liquid unit with isotopic sources.” Boris L. Vishnevsky, a member of the St. Petersburg City Council, said dozens of …

Eugenie Kahmbu Kiyora was working as a nurse when she became infected with Ebola. The 23-year-old contracted it from a patient just days after getting married. At first Kiyora and her colleagues at the Mangina health centre didn’t have a full understanding of the disease. “We didn’t quite know what we were …

A mystery explosion at a Russian weapons testing range involved radioactive materials, the authorities admitted on Saturday, as the blast’s admitted death toll rose and signs of a creeping radiation emergency, or at the least fear of one, grew harder to mask. In a statement released at 1 a.m. Saturday, …

Fears are growing that a no-deal Brexit could lead to serious disorder at sea and possible loss of life – which could then trigger a wider escalation of tensions. Britain’s leading expert on international fisheries law believes that, following a no-deal Brexit, there would be “a real risk” of serious violence breaking …

MOSCOW — The police in Kyrgyzstan detained the Central Asian nation’s former president on Thursday after violent clashes with his supporters, a day after a previous attempt to arrest him left one police officer dead and nearly 80 other people wounded. The former president, Almazbek Atambayev, who was in office …

Jon Voight has claimed that “the angered left and angered minorities” wish to hold Donald Trump responsible for the racism of the past, in a pro-Trump video published by the Oscar-winning actor that also claims that racism was “solved long ago”. The actor, who has been a vocal supporter of …

The institute at Fort Detrick was part of the select agent program until its registration was suspended last month, after the C.D.C. ordered it to stop conducting the research. The shutdown was first reported on Friday by the Frederick News-Post. The problems date back to May 2018, when storms flooded …

A deadly blast in central Cairo late Sunday, which was first blamed on a car crash, was actually caused by one of the cars in the crash, a vehicle packed with explosives and intended for use in a future terrorist attack elsewhere, Egyptian security forces said Monday. At least 20 …

ROME — The Italian authorities have detained seven men in connection with a deadly nightclub stampede last year, prosecutors said Saturday, accusing them of belonging to a gang that frequented music venues and pepper-sprayed clubgoers before robbing them. The arrests were the first in an investigation that began after the …