Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt reach child custody agreement: lawyer
LOS ANGELES – Divorcing Hollywood power couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached a final agreement over the custody of their six children, Jolie’s lawyer said, after more than…
Ukrainian leader says Putin wants his whole country, asks for NATO help
BERLIN/MOSCOW – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has accused Russia’s Vladimir Putin of wanting to annex his entire country and has called for NATO to deploy warships to a sea shared…
Former Trump lawyer Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty to making false statements in connection with the federal investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 US…
China orders halt to gene-editing after outcry over babies
SHANGHAI – The Chinese government has ordered a temporary halt to research activities for people involved in the editing of human genes, after a Chinese scientist said he had edited…
Record-low birth rate threatens Finland’s welfare system: Finance Minister
HELSINKI – A rapid decline in the birth rate is threatening Finland’s welfare system and public finances, the Nordic country’s finance minister Petteri Orpo told Reuters in an interview. Finland’s…
Get Up, Stand Up! UNESCO declares reggae a global cultural treasure
PARIS – UNESCO has declared reggae, the Jamaican music that spread across the world with its calls for social justice, peace and love, to be a global treasure that must…
Genome editing summit organisers condemn Chinese scientist’s gene-editing baby claims
SHANGHAI – The organisers of a conference where a Chinese scientist claimed to have edited the genes of twin babies have condemned the work, calling it “deeply disturbing” and “irresponsible”.…
Google workers demand end to censored Chinese search project
SAN FRANCISCO – More than 200 engineers, designers and managers at Alphabet Inc’s Google have demanded in an open letter that the company end development of a censored search engine for…
Massive effort needed to deal with migration: incoming Mexico official
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s incoming foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard said that to contain migration pressure in Central America and southern Mexico, an effort on the scale of the Marshall Plan…
EU’s top court will give “quick” verdict on whether UK can reverse Brexit
LUXEMBOURG – Europe’s top court says it will decide “quickly” whether Britain can unilaterally reverse its decision to leave the European Union, a ruling supporters of EU membership hope could…
