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The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other countries, its primary duties are advising the U.S. president on international relations, administering diplomatic missions, negotiating international treaties and agreements, protecting citizens abroad and representing the U.S. at the United Nations.
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U.S. officials are tracking an unconfirmed report of a fatal pneumonic plague case in Russia’s Irkutsk Oblast while urging transparency from Moscow.
A Russian agency links the lab worker's death to 'pneumonia of unknown' origin.