Poison

Two babies dead, dozens more children injured after suspected overheating at Jerusalem daycare

Authorities noted substandard conditions at the daycare may have caused the incident and led to suspected overheating.

An Israeli police officer holds a bag containing food items that are suspected to have poisoned dozens of toddlers in Jerusalem. January 19, 2026.
Poisonous mushrooms

Poison Control Center warns: An important warning that could save lives this winter

French flag and court gavel in this illustration taken November 5, 2025.

Algerian nanny imprisoned for poisoning French Jewish family

 A police officer waits outside the courtroom at the courthouse in Paris, March 31, 2025.

Algerian nanny charged after allegedly poisoning French Jewish family’s food, drinks


Sixty Afghan girls hospitalized after school poisoning - police

In neighboring Iran, poisoning incidents at girls' schools sickened an estimated 13,000 mostly female students since November.

 An Afghan woman and a girl walk in a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, November 9, 2022

Two Russian exiles, Kremlin critics, possible poisoned in Germany

Two women, a journalist and a director of an anti-Kremlin NGO, reported symptoms that suggested possible poisoning.

German police gather near Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, Germany, June 6, 2018.

30 horses in central Israel believed to have been poisoned

An initial investigation concluded that a suspect could have poisoned the horses. There are an overall 50 horses at the horse farm.

Special operation brings battered horse home to Israel from Gaza

UN expert calls for urgent medical care for Russia's jailed Navalny

Navalny's supporters said last month that he was suffering from significant stomach pain in jail, which they said could be a sign of some sort of slow acting poison.

 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a screen via video link from the IK-2 corrective penal colony in Pokrov before a court hearing to consider an appeal against his prison sentence, in Moscow, Russia May 17, 2022.

Iran says there were no school poisonings, blames foreign 'enemies'

The wave of suspected attacks has affected thousands of schoolgirls and provoked public anger.

 A group of schoolgirls in Iran.

Thailand widens investigation into woman suspected of killing 13 with cyanide

One woman had survived Sararat's poisoning attempt and is now being questioned.

 Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, a suspect in over a dozen murders, is escorted by police officers at a police station in Bangkok

Russian doppelganger attempted to poison American lookalike with cheesecake 

Nasyrova had also drugged, and robbed men while working as a dominatrix and is accused of murdering her neighbor in Russia.

Biga cheesecake

Chemical attacks on Iranian schoolgirls resume

Poison gas attacks on schoolgirls in Iran have shocked the world for months, from the first reports in November, at the height of the protests against the regime.

 A group of schoolgirls in Iran.

Iran must be penalized for poisoning young girls - opinion

If the illness of Iranian schoolgirls is not caused by “mass sociogenic illness,” then it raises a fundamental question about the underlying reason for these incidents.

 IRANIAN-AMERICAN activist Masih Alinejad attends ‘TIME’ magazine’s Second Annual Women of the Year Gala, in Los Angeles, earlier this month.

Full scope of poison attacks against Iranian schoolgirls revealed

Sources have provided The Media Line with a true picture of the extent of the incidents, including the names of many of the schools singled out for attack

 A group of schoolgirls in Iran.