US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy proposed Friday that alcohol abuse is a major cause of cancer and that bottle labels should carry a clear warning for American consumers. His suggestion sent shares of American and European alcohol makers tumbling. The Indian-origin Murthy's suggestion came after a study found alcohol abuse has a negative impact on human health.

Every year around 20,000 people die due to cancer

Americans should be better informed about the link between alcohol and cancer. He said that alcohol consumption is responsible for about one million cancer cases in the US in the last decade. These cases can be prevented. About 20 thousand people die every year due to alcohol related cancer. There are already warning labels on wine and beer bottles that drinking alcohol by a pregnant woman can cause problems in childbirth.

US imposes cybersecurity sanctions on China's Integrity Technology

The United States on Friday issued new cybersecurity sanctions against China's Integrity Technology Group, a computer programming company that Western officials have previously accused of helping a major Chinese hacking group called Flex Typhoon.

At a cybersecurity conference last year, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Integrity Technology posed as an IT company but collected intelligence for Chinese security agencies. Meanwhile, China announced new export control measures targeting 28 US companies and barred 10 of them from doing business in the country.

The 28 companies primarily include Lockheed Martin and its five subsidiaries, General Dynamics and its three subsidiaries, three subsidiaries of Raytheon, one subsidiary of Boeing, and more than a dozen others.

Said this about Chinese cyber attacks

Meanwhile, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said on Friday that President Joe Biden has been briefed on Chinese cyberattacks on the Treasury Department's network and is working to mitigate the risk. Chinese hackers this month broke into the Treasury Department's computer security guardrails and stole documents.