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We are saddened to report that it appears as if a Border Patrol agent may have been intentionally poisoned with a pesticide. We are not going to elaborate because there is an ongoing investigation. The agent has a family to support, and they are facing an extremely tough time ahead. He has been incapacitated by the toxins in his body, and is not expected to fully recover. We hope and pray that he can make a miraculous recovery. Note to agents: Please be careful where you eat when you are on duty. As you know, there are plenty of sick...

Police and security services believe the assassin secretly sprayed a mist of radioactive polonium-210 on Mr Litvinenko’s meal at a sushi bar. A large quantity of the element was found in his urine hours before he died at UCH. Traces were also found at the Itsu sushi bar in Piccadilly where he met an Italian contact on November 1 — AND at the London Millennium Hotel where he later met two Russians. The substance has also been identified in the Litvinenko family’s modern town house in Muswell Hill, North London. Anti-terrorist officers from Scotland Yard’s SO15 department believe the sushi...

KIEV (Reuters) - Liberal candidate Viktor Yushchenko expressed unease on Wednesday at the effects of dioxin poisoning on his pocked face, but said he was fit to be president and predicted voters would hand him a landslide victory. Yushchenko, who takes on Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich in a Dec. 26 re-run of last month's rigged presidential poll, says authorities poisoned him in a murder attempt. Austrian doctors last week detected dioxin in him 1,000 times the normal level.