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The substance that killed a woman in England in June was the same Novichok nerve agent that poisoned a former Russian agent and his daughter in May, the world’s chemical-weapons watchdog has confirmed.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said on Sept. 4 that laboratory tests of samples collected by its team “confirm the findings of the United Kingdom relating to the identity of the toxic chemical.”

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