Sentences with phrase «by a nerve agent»

The videographers arrived relatively soon after the supposed time of death and would also have been poisoned by any nerve agent.

Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy poisoned by a nerve agent in Britain in March, has been discharged from hospital.

Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal is released from hospital in the UK, ten weeks after he was poisoned by a nerve agent, although his...

Here, a presenter said that the discovery that Mr Skripal was poisoned by a nerve agent means «Russia is in for a high - profile criminal investigation».

Heavy sedation would have had the effect of stopping the nerve cells firing very rapidly and becoming damaged, which is one of the changes caused by nerve agents.

In this case, the prompt medical attention by the clinician and the emergency services who initially cared for the Skripals will have helped reduce or perhaps eliminate some of the major harm caused by nerve agent exposure.

If anything, these images contradict theories of death by nerve agent, thus leaving unanswered the underlying question of why people didn't simply walk downstairs away from any chlorine.

That's the incident in which a former Russian spy who was living in England, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned by a nerve agent.

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Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, who hosted the event, said G7 ministers expressed deep concern about the «despicable» nerve agent attack in Britain and Russia's efforts to destabilize democracies by meddling in elections.

Better known by the abbreviation ICBMs, such missiles can do exactly what their name implies: deliver a weapon, like a nuclear warhead or nerve agents, to another continent.

British authorities say the pair have been critically ill since the attack by a Soviet - designed, military - grade nerve agent called Novichok.

Skripal and his 33 - year - old daughter, Yulia, were both hospitalized and remain in critical condition after being exposed to Novichok, a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s.

«This was a reckless attempt by the [Russian] government to murder a British citizen and his daughter on British soil with a military - grade nerve agent.

A report by Reuters May 8 said that OPCW inspectors had found traces of sarin and VX nerve agent at the site in separate inspections in December and January.

PRAGUE (AP)-- The Czech president says a report by the country's military spy agency shows that a small amount of the nerve agent type used to poison...

PRAGUE (AP)- The Czech president says a report by the country's military spy agency shows that a small amount of the nerve agent type used to...

Kim Jong Un's older half - brother, Kim Jong Nam, was assassinated at the Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia on Feb. 13 by two women who used a deadly nerve agent, according to Malaysian authorities.

Russia has never officially acknowledged having Novichok, but documents found in the massive leak of State Department cables published by Wikileaks show Great Britain and its allies worried about the deadly nerve agent for years.

The negative verdict on the historicity of the empty tomb has been reached by scholars not because «they are suffering from a failure of nerve and of imagination», believing that «they must not introduce any supernatural agent into the setting of the burial of Jesus».2 This judgment may have been true of some, and particularly those who were already hostile critics of Christianity.

The policeman was not in intensive care but was still in a serious condition following the attack, in which a nerve agent, described by Ms Rudd as «very rare», was used in an attempt on the lives of Sergei Skripal, 66, and his 33 - year - old daughter Yulia.

it truly has been the summer of twitter agents and mostly itk's this window that plus our tension at being strung along by wenger does nt help our nerves much lol, but makes our fanbase and club a massive target from such people whether they are arsenal supporters or not, but it will soon be over so i think that they will all start to wind down this week, as the days go by then one last big explosion on the last day then die of the for winter till jan. take a bow the following people whether itk or twitter agents muzzi ozcan (with his «transfer of the season» quote priceless memz dogi (following along behind muzzi when muzzi died of a bit he picks the a baton it seems.

This book has been published at a time when the news has been dominated by allegations concerning links in the past between Jeremy Corbyn and the Czech intelligence services and the confrontation with Putin over what appears to be the use of toxic nerve agent against a former Russian spy.

«Nerve agents» are chemical substances that interfere with the chemistry of the human nervous system by binding with an enzyme called acetylcholinesterase.

Nerve agents are not toxins by the technical definition.

All of the nerve agents, old and new, operate on the same biochemical principles and cause the same mechanism of injury by provoking a «cholinergic crisis».

«On 4 March 2018, former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in Salisbury, England, with a chemical determined by the Government of the United Kingdom to be a Novichok nerve agent.»

Attacking him with a sophisticated nerve agent that can only be produced by a major nation is an act of intimidation: we can find you and get you no matter where you go.

Former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a military - grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia, Theresa May has told MPs.

The report documents why (one of) the explanation offered by Russia (a bomb strike on a sarin stocking site) is implausible: the nerve agent would then have been burnt and buried and not released in such huge quantities in the air.

When you choose to kill with polonium - 210 or a nerve gas agent, you are making it unambiguously clear that this is an officially sanctioned killing by an agency of a sovereign government that has access to these kinds of weapons.

«Either this was a direct act by the Russian state against our country, or the Russian government lost control of this potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get in the hands of others,» May said.

On Monday, Mr Assange used Twitter to question the decision by the UK and more than 20 other countries to retaliate against a nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the UK city of Salisbury by expelling Russian diplomats.

The week wasn't really defined by the Russian nerve agent attack.

This use of a military - grade nerve agent, of a type developed by Russia, constitutes the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the second world war.

Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday a «weapons grade nerve agent» developed by Russia had been used in the attack on Skripal and his daughter, who were found slumped on a bench last week in the sleepy cathedral town of Salisbury.

May said either the attack was an act by the Russian state, or Russia had lost control of its nerve agent.

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Mr Speaker, on Monday I set out that Mr Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a Novichok: a military grade nerve agent developed by Russia.

Sergei Skripal, the former Russian spy and British double agent who was poisoned in England, has been discharged from a Salisbury hospital more than two months after he was exposed to a lethal nerve agent developed by Russia.

Russian spies were trained to deliver the deadly Novichok nerve agent by applying it to door handles, Britain's top intelligence chief has...

Mrs May said: «Either this was a direct action by the Russian state against our country, or the Russian government lost control of its potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others.»

Last month Johnson said he had been told by Porton Down that the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning case could only have come from Russia, but the lead scientist at the defence research laboratory later said this was not the sort of finding the organisation could make.

The transparency made it possible for them to identify peripheral nerves — tiny bundles of nerves that are poorly understood — and to map the spread of viruses across the mouse's blood - brain barrier, which they did by marking the virus with a fluorescent agent, injecting it into the mouse's tail and watching it spread into the brain.

Scientists are racing to unravel why the mysterious nerve agent, concocted by Soviet chemists in the 1970s, is so potent.

Military personnel in Salisbury, U.K., investigating the poisoning of Sergei Skripal by an exquisitely toxic Russian nerve agent.

AF - 219 is a selective, non-narcotic and orally administered agent that targets the mechanism by which certain nerve fibers become hyper - sensitized and lead to chronic and debilitating symptoms such as cough.

Barrass says that the commission chose to destroy the rest of Iraq's stock of nerve agents by hydrolysis, rather than incineration, for safety reasons.

A separate plant will destroy other nerve agents by mixing them with a caustic solution of sodium hydroxide.

The organic ligand gives the material its important structure by connecting the nodes, but it does not participate in the catalysis of the nerve agent.

The study, the first to demonstrate zirconium MOFs as effective weapons against nerve agents, will be published March 16 by the journal Nature Materials.