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A committee of the United States Congress has backed the theory that a lab leak caused the COVID-19 pandemic.  T he Republican-controlled House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis concluded that the coronavirus “ likely emerged because of a laboratory or research related accident ” ... The 520-page report , which was two years in the making, looked at the federal and state-level response to the pandemic, as well as its origins and vaccination efforts.  Among the report’s headline conclusions was that the US National Institutes of Health (NIS) funded contentious “ gain-of-function ” research – which enhances viruses to find ways to combat them – at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China prior to the outbreak. The department’s finding echoed that of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which said in 2021 with “moderate confidence” that the virus probably spread after a laboratory mishap .  The House committee was convinced by the la...

An estimated 55,000 people marched outside New Zealand's Parliament to protest  The Treaty Principles Bill, targeting the Treaty of Waitangi, or Te Tiriti o Waitangi,  that would dilute Indigenous rights by reinterpreting a treaty signed in 1840 by the British Crown and more than 500 Māori chiefs... The peaceful demonstration was the culmination of a nine-day march, or hīkoi , that began at Cape Reinga, the northernmost point of New Zealand and the most spiritually significant place in the country for Māori, who are about 20% of the 5.3 million-person population. Hundreds carried the Māori national flag. Maori members staged a traditional dance called a haka into the Parliament  to disrupt the first reading of the treaty.  Member of Parliament Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke ,  who at 22 is the country's youngest MP,  started the haka then tore up a copy of the bill . Other participants included the  Māori Queen , Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō , and Te Pāti Māori Co...