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07.10.26 - 15:54
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US Reiterates "Do Not Travel" Warning For Russia After Lab Worker′s Death Raises Plague Fears (ZeroHedge)
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US Reiterates "Do Not Travel" Warning For Russia After Lab Worker's Death Raises Plague Fears
The Trump administration formally asked Russia for details about the reported death of a laboratory worker at a facility studying pneumonic plague in Siberia's Irkutsk region. Russian authorities said they found no plague in the deceased worker or contacts.
*US PREPARING FORMAL REQUEST TO RUSSIA ON PLAGUE DEATH: WAPO
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 6, 2026
Overnight, the U.S. Embassy reiterated its "Do Not Travel" warning for Russia and urged Americans already in the country to leave immediately.
"The U.S. Embassy is aware of press reports from the Irkutsk region of suspected pneumonic plague resulting in the death of an individual and of associated quarantine measures in, and closures of, hospitals in Irkutsk," the U.S. Embassy in Moscow wrote in an advisory overnight.
Irkutsk, Russia: The U.S. Embassy is aware of press reports from the Irkutsk region of suspecte...
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21.06.26 - 04:03
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Trump Reiterates Ukraine War Would Never Have Started If Russia Remained In G8, Blasts Obama (ZeroHedge)
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Trump Reiterates Ukraine War Would Never Have Started If Russia Remained In G8, Blasts Obama
This isn't the first time that President Trump has said something like this, but he's newly explained in a wide-ranging fresh interview with Axios published Friday his view that the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine likely would likely have been averted if Russia had remained a member of the then-Group of Eight (G8).
"You probably wouldn't have the war with Russia and Ukraine if they did," Trump told the publication, referring to the decision to expel Moscow, making the group the G7.
The forum "would have been much better" had it maintained its original structure, with Russia included. He laid ultimate blame in the fresh remarks on former President Barack Obama.
It was during the Obama administration, in 2014, that Washington pushed allies to expel Russia from the group of leading economies over its takeover of Crimea through a 'popular referendum'.
Trump this week atten...
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