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Dispatches

18 January 2003

RICIN ARRESTS

Police in Britain this week arrested six more people in connection with a ricin “factory” discovered in a flat in north London. Four Algerians have already been charged with terrorism and chemical weapons offences.

Only traces of the potent poison were found, and it is not clear how much was made, where it is now or what the group’s intention was.

NEW MOONS

Three new moons have been discovered around Neptune. Another team found a small body in the same orbit round the Sun as Neptune – the first “Neptune Trojan”. Two clouds of Trojan asteroids orbit the…

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