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Kremlin says France's test nuclear launch is part of 'dead end' anti-Russia strategy

FILE PHOTO: People walk through Red Square near Kremlin towers, St. Basil's Cathedral and the State Historical Museum in Moscow, Russia, September 10, 2026. REUTERS/Anastasia Barashkova/File Photo

Russia says it properly informed WHO of plague institute worker's death, blasts media coverage

FILE PHOTO: A view of the Medical Assistance and Rescue Centre, an infectious diseases hospital, in the town of Shelekhov in the Irkutsk region, Russia, October 5, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

WHO presses Russia for details on plague institute worker's death, Kremlin turns on media

FILE PHOTO: Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends an ACANU briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, April 29, 2026. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

Russia hits Ukraine with drones and missiles, killing at least eight

A resident with a dog looks on at the site of private car garages hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 7, 2026. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

China says it’s talking to Russia on suspected plague case

A view of the entrance to the grounds of the anti-plague institute in the city of Irkutsk on Oct 6.

Russian tycoon says Trump Jr paid back lavish wedding costs

Umar Kremlev compared the arrangement to inviting friends to his country house and said demanding repayment afterwards would be “ridiculous”.

‘Nobody seems to care’: Russian city shrugs off plague reports

Some residents in Irkutsk questioned whether the laboratory worker had died of plague at all.

US presses Russia for answers over suspected plague death at Siberian lab

A satellite image shows the Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, Russia. Media reports say an employee of the institute may have contracted pneumonic plague from a broken test tube.

North Korea criticises US support for Taiwan, pledges backing for Russia

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (centre), accompanied by his daughter Kim Ju Ae (right), oversees the firing of an intermediate-range missile during a drill on Oct 3.

Russia says tanker crew rescued in Black Sea after attack set ship ablaze

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