The FBI and several federal agencies have launched a massive investigation into the suspicious deaths and disappearances of nearly a dozen scientists linked to highly sensitive government research.

The East Kazakhstan region has marked the inauguration of a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary veterinary laboratory aimed at enhancing food security and boosting agricultural exports in Kazakhstan, the country’s Agriculture Ministry announced on Wednesday.

South African police have reported dismantling a crystal methamphetamine laboratory on a farm in the eastern part of the country, where drugs valued at $20 million (£15 million) were found.

The White House on Friday launched a revamped COVID-19 website that highlights the controversial theory suggesting the virus originated from a laboratory leak in China, presenting it as the potential “true origins” of the pandemic.

The Queensland government has announced that hundreds of deadly virus samples have gone missing from a laboratory in Australia.

US lawmakers concluded a two-year investigation Monday into the COVID-19 outbreak that killed 1.1 million Americans, endorsing the theory that the virus likely leaked from a Chinese laboratory, News.az reports citing Al Arabiya .