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NEW YORK, November 14. /TASS/: Hackers compromised the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s external email system, Bloomberg news agency said, citing the FBI statement.

"This is an ongoing situation and we are not able to provide any additional information at this time," the FBI said in a statement.

According to preliminary data, the case in point is an external account used to receive and transmit unclassified information. Tens of thousands of emails were sent from that account in total, Bloomberg reported.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 13 (APP): The World Health Organization (WHO) has decried the “vast access gaps” in the availability of insulin, a bedrock medicine for the treatment of diabetes, even 100 years after it was discovered.

In a report published on Friday to commemorate the milestone anniversary, the Geneva-based UN health agency stressed the need to cut prices and dramatically increase access to the life-saving medicine.

UN, 13 November. /TASS/: The accusations against Russia due to the situation with refugees from the Middle East on the Belarusian-Polish border are absurd, Grigory Lukyantsev, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s human rights envoy, told the leading Russian news agencies.

"The core of these accusations resembles some kind of absurd situation. All accusations in this regard are addressed to one state, Belarus, although there are already accusations that we [Russia] allegedly had a hand in this, which is generally absurd," the diplomat said.

NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- More than half of federal employees recently surveyed disagreed with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate announced by U.S. President Joe Biden in September, according to U.S. media outlet Government Executive.

A total of 53 percent of respondents strongly or somewhat disagreed with the vaccine mandate, while 44 percent strongly or somewhat agreed with it in a survey conducted by the Government Business Council (GBC), the research arm of Government Executive.

NEW YORK, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Local authorities conducted investigations after New York University (NYU) evacuated multiple buildings due to bomb threats Thursday night.

"NYU has received bomb threats for three locations: the Stern School of Business, Center for Neural Science, and Hebrew Union College," the school said in its website Thursday evening.

The locations were soon evacuated, according to the university. Police conducted a search and later issued an all clear.

NEW YORK (AP) — In the past week, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted a video showing a character with his face killing a figure with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s face. Several of the 13 House Republicans who backed a bipartisan infrastructure bill said they faced threats after their vote. In one profanity-laced voicemail, a caller labeled Rep. Fred Upton a “traitor” and wished death for the Michigan Republican, his family and staff.

The response from Republican leaders? Silence.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Mexico’s president warned Tuesday that the world is sliding from “civilization to barbarity” and called for the thousand richest people, the thousand largest private corporations and the 20 major economies to improve life for the 750 million people now existing on less than $2 dollars a day.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador told the U.N. Security Council that this proposal could generate around $1 trillion annually, which should go directly to the world’s poorest people “without any intermediaries, through a card or personalized electronic wallet.”

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. says that it’s inviting the global community to visit now that the government has ended the ban on travelers from 33 countries.

In reality, however, it will still be difficult — if not impossible — for much of the globe to enter the country and experts say it will take years for travel to fully recover.

NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Four astronauts with the SpaceX Crew-2 mission returned to earth on Monday night via a splashdown off the coast of Pensacola in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The webcast by NASA shows that astronauts came out of the cabin in good condition following over six months aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. federal government's efforts to encourage widespread vaccination against COVID-19 have been challenged by some officials and experts, particularly since its vaccine mandate was formally introduced to large-scale businesses on Thursday.

The vaccination rule came as many communities are still struggling with limited health care staff and resources to help those who are currently battling COVID-19. The White House insisted the measures mean common good for the country and will be upheld no matter what the costs will be.