Ramzan Kadyrov
Al Fursan, or the Knights, a UAE Air Force aerobatic display team, perform during the opening day of the International Defence Exhibition & Conference, IDEX, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
UAE weapons show draws major deals, traders amid pandemic

By Isabel Debre Feb. 21, 2021 10:11 AM EST

A woman wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus walk past a Soviet era bas-relief in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, May 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Putin says coronavirus situation in Russia has stabilized

By Vladimir Isachenkov May. 22, 2020 10:41 AM EDT

A pedestrian wears a protective mask during the coronavirus pandemic while walking along East 60th Street Friday, May 22, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Record virus infections, deaths are ravaging Latin America

By David Biller And Christopher Sherman May. 22, 2020 01:58 AM EDT

In this photo taken on Monday, May 18, 2020, Dr. Irina Vaskyanina adjusts a face mask to protect against coronavirus during her interview with the Associated Press in front of a hospital in Reutov, just outside Moscow, Russia. Vaskyanina headed a department handling blood transfusions at a hospital in Reutov, outside Moscow, and spent weeks fighting for better working conditions after 40 of her colleagues got infected with the virus and dozens quit. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
‘We’re expendable’: Russian doctors face hostility, mistrust

By Daria Litvinova May. 21, 2020 02:42 AM EDT