Nearly 200 people are under medical observation in Russia’s Irkutsk region over suspected exposure to plague, according to local media reports.
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WorldPingRussia's pneumonic plague scare: Nearly 200 quarantined after lab researcher's death — full report at Times of India.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Times of India
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A Russian agency links the lab worker's death to 'pneumonia of unknown' origin.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Al Jazeera
WorldPingSangram Kumar Singh, the station house officer of Maker Police Station in Bihar, was suspended for indiscipline. He was filmed brandishing a pistol while distributing flood relief materials to affected citizens.
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WorldPingU.S. officials are tracking an unconfirmed report of a fatal pneumonic plague case in Russia’s Irkutsk Oblast while urging transparency from Moscow.
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WorldPingPolice investigating the death of a Congolese man after he was pinned down by security guards in Dublin city centre want to speak to a woman knocked to the ground during the incident.
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