Third Chemical Weapons Shipment Leaves Syria

A third shipment of chemical weapons material has left Syria to be destroyed as part of an internationally brokered agreement to rid the country of its chemical weapons arsenal by mid 2014.A statement by the joint mission of the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says the material left the country Monday aboard a Norweigian cargo vessel accompanied by a naval escort from China, Denmark, Norway, and Russia.The statement says that some chemical...

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