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Mr Peskov said on Tuesday that the new doctrine was published "in a timely manner" and that Putin had requested it be updated earlier this year so that it was "in line with the current situation", AP reported.

Most of the infected people live in New York, Minnesota and Washington, followed by California and Oregon, according to the AP news agency.

As of Saturday, Democratic candidates are leading in five contests, Republican candidates in four, and the remaining two have already been called by the AP, according to the project.

“There has been an explosion over the last 10 or 15 years of plantings and those trees are coming online,” Zachary Fraser, president and chief executive of American Pistachio Growers, told the AP.

As explained by the AP, pistachio orchards “can be sustained with minimal water during drought” and their trees “rely on wind instead of bees for pollination and can produce nuts for decades longer.”