Sentences with phrase «suspected use of chemical»

The suspected use of chemical weapons has drawn the West back into Syria's seven - year conflict.

NEW YORK / LONDON, April 10 - Gold prices rose on Tuesday, hitting their highest in nearly a week as the U.S. dollar weakened and investors awaited potential U.S. action against suspected use of chemical weapons in Syria.

(New throughout, updates prices, market activity and comments; adds second byline and NEW YORK dateline) NEW YORK / LONDON, April 10 (Reuters)- Gold prices rose on Tuesday, hitting their highest in nearly a week as the U.S. dollar weakened and investors awaited potential U.S. action against suspected use of chemical weapons in Syria.

There have been four suspected uses of chemical weapons in Syria this year, a Christian minister has said.

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But reports of chemical attacks have surfaced regularly since then, and Islamist rebels fighting in the town of Douma — the site of the suspected chemical attack earlier this month that sparked the US and allies» strike on Friday — say Assad is using the terrifying weapons to win on the battlefield.

Syria Deeply answers some of the big questions surrounding the suspected poison gas attack in Douma last week, and the wider issue of chemical weapon use in Syria.20 days ago

Pope Francis has closed his traditional Sunday blessing by saying «nothing can justify» the use of chemical weapons against defenceless people, and called for those responsible for a suspected attack in Syria to seek negotiations.

Unfortunately, the chemicals used to treat greens are suspected of causing cancer and interfering with hormone production.

More than three decades after manufacturers stopped making children's pajamas with a flame retardant suspected of causing cancer, new research suggests the same chemical has become the most widely used fire - resistant compound in upholstered furniture sold throughout the United States.

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There's a long list of steps being taken: a new offence of possessing «paedophilic manuals»; a strengthening of sentencing guidelines for computer hacking operations; new powers to seize and destroy chemical substances suspected of being used as cutting agents for illegal drugs.

Citing how this new technique represents a broad range of chemical structures unlikely to be found using conventional means, Helbling said, «These results are not only interesting from a novelty perspective, but demonstrate the breadth of chemical coverage that our suspect screening affords.»

«There is good reason to suspect that increasing chemical production and use is related to the growing incidence of endocrine - associated disorders over the past 20 years, including male reproductive problems, early female puberty, cancers and neurobehavioral disorders,» said Endocrine Society member Andrea C. Gore, PhD, the guide's lead author.

From wind direction to short - range rockets, analysis of the Damascus chemical attack can reveal the poison used, identify suspects and suggest what to do next

A series of economic papers released in 2015 and 2016 estimating the burden of diseases and associated costs attributable to exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the U.S. and EU are as flawed and immaterial to public health decision - making as many experts first suspected, according to a thorough and rigorous critique of the underlying methodology used to generate the cost estimates published this month in the online version of the influential, peer - reviewed journal Archives of Toxicology.

The researchers used 18 of those assays to screen more than 1,800 chemicals — including pesticides, food - use chemicals, and substances with known or suspected endocrine activity.

PFOA and its replacements are suspected to belong to a large class of artificial compounds called endocrine - disrupting chemicals; these compounds, which include chemicals used in the production of pesticides, plastics and gasoline, interfere with human reproduction and metabolism and cause cancer, thyroid problems and nervous - system disorders.

It was a minor matter to get a friend of a friend, who was a stewardess, to use her free hours before her flight took off again from Beef Island to take a cab to the dive shop and pick up a small quantity of the ground herb concoction, which chemical analysis later revealed to be powdered rhino horn (one could well wonder how they got that in Tortola), mixed with something called dried Annie flower, to which was added a generous pinch — as Lowell suspected — of simple ginger.

Laboratory studies of animals have also identified a growing list of commonly used chemicals as suspected endocrine disruptors.