US urgently calls for answers from Moscow over laboratory ‘plague death’ and Trump says he’ll speak to Putin as ‘fights break out over antibiotics in Russian quarantine zone’

The United States is urgently calling for answers from Moscow on the reported plague death of a laboratory technician.

President Donald Trump has said he will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the possible outbreak that is said to have taken at least two lives in the country. 

‘We have officially requested additional information from the Russian government,’ a State Department spokesman said Tuesday, adding that Washington was ‘in official communication with other countries around the world to share information’.

The request for information was sent via a confidential diplomatic communication, known as a demarche, according to a source close to the

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