The findings, based on responses from over 9,300 of the 577,000 CBP and ICE agents surveyed, cited several reasons including increased workload, inconsistent border policies, irrelevant task assignments, resource insufficiency, and excessive overtime.
"What this means is that one of the world’s most horrific regimes is now a part of a group that sets and enforces the standards and norms for the global governance of health care. It is an absurd episode for a key U.N. agency that is in much need of self-reflection and reform,” Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of Geneva-based independent human rights organization, UN Watch, commented.
CIA Director Bill Burns secretly visited Beijing to meet with Chinese intelligence officials, indicating growing concerns within the Biden administration about the deteriorating relations with China, and marking the highest-level trip by a Biden official to China.
In a turn of events characterized by profound irony, an outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, occurred at the 2023 Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Conference hosted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) itself.
Author J.K. Rowling responded to British journalist Patrick Strudwick after he allegedly ran a false story about a "Let Women Speak" rally featuring anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen.
Ukrainian drones launched a unprecedented attack on Moscow and the Moscow Region, with Russian defenses successfully intercepting and neutralizing most of them, leading President Vladimir Putin to accuse Ukraine of engaging in a campaign of fear and terrorist activity, while the West expresses concerns over potential nuclear action by Russia in response.
