A pioneering ‘test tube’ treatment aims to eliminate hereditary illnesses in newborns A baby has been born with the DNA of three people for the first time in the UK, following the use of a pioneering form of in vitro fertilization (IVF) – sometimes referred to as a ‘test tube babies’ technique. The news has…

President Putin has appointed an official to supervise the country’s exit from the suspended 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Russia has indicated its intention to formally withdraw from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), a military transparency agreement that is currently suspended. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has been selected…

Officials have been instructed to call Kaliningrad by its Warsaw-preferred name, ‘Krolewiec’ Poland’s decision to call the Russian city of Kaliningrad ‘Krolewiec’, as it was known in the 15th century, “borders on madness,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Warsaw objects to the city’s current name because of its association with a Soviet statesman, whom Warsaw…