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Trump says will speak with Putin over Russia's reported plague death

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US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would speak “very soon” with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the reported death from plague of a laboratory technician, as Washington and the World Health Organization pressed Moscow for greater transparency and clarity over conflicting accounts of the

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Both outlets focus on the White House monitoring a suspected plague case in Russia and on the quarantines, with Axios and The Independent sharing the broad frame of an administration response. The Independent goes further in its extract by saying the administration is “assessing options” and naming the deceased laboratory technician, Darya Shipilova, while Axios only says it is monitoring reports and, in its extract, notes Russian health authorities took precautionary measures after a woman’s death.

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