'Obscene masquerade' as Russia denies chemical attack
Russian diplomats brought several Syrian "witnesses" - including an 11-year-old boy - to the global chemical weapons watchdog in a bid to prove chemical weapons were not used in Douma.At a joint press conference with Syrian officials at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the Russian diplomats accused the White Helmets humanitarian group of filming "staged videos" following the suspected attack in the Syrian city on 7 April.The Syrians claimed they did not see any evidence that a chemical attack had taken place.The briefing in the Netherlands was boycotted by the UK, France and the US and described as an "obscene masquerade".Several of the 17 Syrian eyewitnesses brought to The Hague by the Russians said they saw "no symptoms" of a chemical attack and that "ever...