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8 October 2026

Russia’s Silence on Possible Plague Outbreak Stokes Fears of a Cover-Up

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Source reporting: New York Times World

Russia’s Silence on Possible Plague Outbreak Stokes Fears of a Cover-Up

As rumors spread about a possible plague outbreak in Siberia, the Kremlin turned to a familiar playbook: offering little information about potential bad news.

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Astronomers detect mysterious burst of energy from a galaxy far, far away

Intense flash of radio waves is more than 10bn years old and has travelled through ‘approximately 80% of cosmic history’ A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a mysterious flash of energy was released into the universe. Astronomers have now detected that flash, a burst of radio waves which travelled for more than 10bn years before reaching Earth – what they believe to be the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded.

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