The U.S. has ousted the director of the global agency charged with ridding the world of chemical weapons. José Bustani, who was unanimously reelected last year as the director general of the 145-nation Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. But after he refused repeated U.S. demands to step down, the State Department dispatched envoys to a number of capitals and threatened to cut off funding to the organization. The U.S. is responsible for nearly a quarter of the agency’s budget. With around half the member organizations abstaining, Bustani was voted out yesterday.