He Jiankui sparked an international backlash with his experiment last year A scientist in China who said he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies…
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Month: December 2019
Kataib Hezbollah: Iraq condemns US attacks on Iran-backed militia
Kataib Hezbollah’s headquarters in western Iraqi were hit in the US strikes Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi has condemned the US air strikes which…
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US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated
The Runit Dome houses tonnes of nuclear waste The US Congress has demanded an investigation into a concrete dome full of nuclear waste, threatened by…
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Civil rights icon John Lewis diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
Congressman John Lewis is known as a civil rights hero Democratic congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis has been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic…
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Nissan’s ex-head Carlos Ghosn flees Japan to Lebanon
Official sources have not yet confirmed that Mr Ghosn has left Japan, where he was awaiting trial Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has travelled to…
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Texas church shooting: Shooter killed by churchgoer named
Keith Thomas Kinnunen has been identified as the shooter A gunman who opened fire in a church in Texas, fatally shooting two people before being killed…
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Australia fires: Thousands flee to the sea as fires race to coast
Mallacoota resident David Jeffrey says people were “terrified for their lives” Thousands of people in Australia have fled to the seafront to seek shelter from…
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US Taser death teen’s relatives settle with police for $12m
The teen hit a parked truck after being stunned by a Taser The family of a 15-year-old US boy who died after a police officer…
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Sudan sentences 29 to death for teacher’s killing in custody
Protesters gathered outside court ahead of the verdict to demand justice A Sudanese court has sentenced 29 intelligence officers to death for the torture and…
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Monsey stabbing: Journals of attacker ‘referenced Jews’
The man suspected of stabbing five people at a rabbi’s house in New York state on Saturday kept journals which included references to Jews and…
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