international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. wu has confirmed that former russian spy service scribal and his daughter yulia were poisoned with a nerve agent in the english city of saul's wary however the organization stopped short of naming the substance nor did it say where it was produced. these twelve people have been killed after taliban militants stormed a government compound in central afghanistan the gun gunmen overran a district headquarters in province triggering an hour's long gun battle at least three of the dead were were to local officials. afghan security forces eventual drove out the insurgents. algeria has begun the three days of mourning after a military plane crash that killed two hundred fifty seven people the russian built transporter went down shortly after takeoff on wednesday killing mostly soldiers and their family members the accident is the worst aviation disaster in algeria's