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BEIJING,  (Reuters) – A Chinese court sentenced the scientist who created the world’s first “gene-edited” babies to three years in prison yesterday for illegally practising medicine and violating research regulations, the official Xinhua news agency said.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi yesterday condemned U.S.

MUMBAI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Police in Delhi used facial recognition software to screen crowds at a recent political rally – a first for India – raising concerns about privacy and mass surveillance amidst nationwide protests against a new citizenship law.

WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – U.S. officials said yesterday that air strikes in Iraq and Syria against an Iran-backed militia group were successful, but warned that “additional actions” may still be taken in the region to defend U.S.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tackling climate change and addressing violence against women and girls will be among aid agencies’ top priorities for 2020, they told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

SEOUL, 0 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called at a ruling party meeting for “positive and offensive measures” to ensure security ahead of a year-end deadline he has set for denuclearisation talks with the United States, state media KCNA said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democratic Representative John Lewis, a hero of the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republican Senator John Kennedy, a frequent defender of President Donald Trump, said today there were no real rules for how the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – After evangelical publication Christianity Today published a blistering editorial on what it called Donald Trump’s “grossly immoral character”, some church leaders and the U.S.

(Reuters) – Many facial recognition systems misidentify people of colour more often than white people, according to a U.S.

MOGADISHU,  (Reuters) – At least 90 people were killed when a bomb-laden truck exploded at a busy checkpoint in the Somali capital Mogadishu yesterday, an international organisation working in the country said, in the deadliest attack in more than two years.

LUCKNOW, India,  (Reuters) – The chief minister of India’s Uttar Pradesh state has rebuffed accusations from rights groups of police abuses during protests against a new citizenship law, crediting his tough stand with restoring calm to the streets.

(Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday denied an attempt to restore about 98,000 voters in Georgia to the U.S.

DEBARK, Ethiopia, (Reuters) – Rahmat Hussein once inspired fear and respect for the watchful eye she cast over her Ethiopian neighbourhood, keeping files on residents and recommending who should get a loan or be arrested.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s parliament abolished yesterday an extra-judicial system of forced labour used to punish sex workers and their clients for up to two years, but it stressed that prostitution remains illegal.

PARUNG, Indonesia (Reuters) – On the outskirts of suburban Jakarta, housewife Dita Agusta lives with more than 250 cats she has taken in off the streets, creating a shelter for the animals she hopes will one day be adopted.

ZHENGYUANSI, China (Reuters) – In a short online video, a Chinese man with a round face and a buzz cut pops open a beer cap with a single chopstick.

(Reuters Health) – Screening fathers for postpartum depression is as important as screening mothers, researchers argue, and current guidelines don’t go far enough in urging doctors to identify new fathers who may be suffering.

(Reuters Health) – People who eat oatmeal for breakfast instead of eggs and white toast may be lowering their risk of stroke, a Danish study suggests.

(Reuters) – Archeologists have discovered a large palace likely used by the Mayan elite more than 1,000 years ago in the ancient city of Kulubá, near the modern day tourist hot spot of Cancun in eastern Mexico, Mexican anthropology officials said.