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THE HAGUE, July 4 (Reuters) - Dutch and German intelligence agencies have gathered evidence of widespread Russian use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine, including dropping a choking agent from drones to drive soldiers out of trenches so they can be shot, they said on Friday. Dutch Defence Minister Ruben Brekelmans called for tougher sanctions against Moscow. "The main conclusion is that we can confirm Russia is intensifying its use of chemical weapons," he told Reuters. "This intensification is concerning because it is part of a trend we have been observing for several years now, where Russia's use of chemical weapons in this war is becoming more normalized, standardized, and widespread." Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency confirmed the findings, saying in a statement that it had obtained the evidence alongside its Dutch counterparts. Reuters was first to report on the intelligence. The head of the Dutch Military Intelligence Agency (MIVD), Peter Reesink, said the conclusions followed "our own independent intelligence, so we have observed it ourselves based on our own investigations."

Chloropicrin is listed as a banned choking agent by OPCW, which was created to implement and monitor compliance with the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). It can cause severe irritation to the skin, eyes, and respiratory tract. If ingested, it can cause burns in the mouth and stomach, nausea and vomiting, as well as difficulty breathing or shortness of breath.

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A full cease-fire could bring every hostage home, but Netanyahu's political survival depends on prolonging the war. The next move belongs to Trump.

Archive article: https://archive.ph/rXfDZ#selection-299.0-299.146

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[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 114 points 1 month ago

What do you mean TACO aren't they striking Ukraine daily? TACO are you announcing that Russia and Ukraine are at war?

[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 month ago

Art of the deal: make concessions before negotiations.

[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 85 points 2 months ago

Huge sigh of relief

[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 63 points 2 months ago

While the article stated that the statement was FALSE, It's actually NOT FALSE.

There was no housing minister in Harper’s cabinet at the time. Many housing issues got rolled into Poilievre’s domain under the title of social development. The six houses number stems from non-profit housing built by the government in the 2015-16 fiscal year, when Poiliever had the file. Under Harper, Canada had less social housing per capita than many other countries.

Housing was under PP's portfolio, and PP made it very small.

[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 88 points 2 months ago

If they weren't, they wouldn't have voted for you dumbass!

[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 119 points 3 months ago

China and Vietnam are producing a lot of the low cost every day items people use. It's going to hit the lower income people the hardest. Thank goodness I'm in Canada.

[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 61 points 3 months ago

We don't want you here!

[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 133 points 8 months ago

They need to fire the leaders of Democratic party. Find new blood and new direction. Swing to the right didn't help them.

[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 75 points 1 year ago

What kind of exploitative capitalism do we have in Canada? And how is this allowed? This is utterly ridiculous!

[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 108 points 1 year ago

What a piece of shit. And this guy was running US foreign policy? Wow. Saudis must be regretting paying this man $40m a year to manage their billions.

[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 year ago

Falling birth rates are bad news for economies and billionaires, but good news for the planet.

[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 65 points 2 years ago

Funny thing is this kind of behaviour isn't unique to Musk. A lot of entrepreneurs and CEOs seem to have similar kind of attitude. They want everything done cheaper faster and there's no 2 ways about it. It's their way or highway. If shit goes to hell it's other people's heads that roll.

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