The US House of Representatives is expected to pass a resolution blaming China for a "brazen violation of United States sovereignty" and accusing it of trying to "deceive the international community through false claims about its intelligence collection campaigns."
The White House and the CIA have denied journalist Seymour Hersh's allegations that the US was involved in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, calling the report "complete fiction" and "completely and utterly false," while the UN said it was unable to verify the claims.
On Dec. 13, 2022, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that Sir Jeremy Farrar, the current director of the Wellcome Trust, would be joining it as its chief scientist.