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As The Delta Variant Soars, The Airline Industry Descends Into Another Slump

The EU is taking the U.S. off its COVID-19 "safe list," but airlines have already been cutting flights due to low booking rates. Some say vaccines should have been required for travel months ago.

Thousands of pilgrims and tourists weren't in Bethlehem on Christmas eve due to COVID

For the second year, the Christmas eve celebration in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem was muted by the pandemic precautions.

McDonald's has closed its more than 800 restaurants in Russia in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This photo at a Moscow McDonald's was taken on March 13, just before it was closed.

In response to the war, Americans flee Russia in droves

Russia's war in Ukraine has prompted an exodus from Russia, including many Americans living there. Some had built a life stretching over decades. Now they don't know if they'll ever go back.

In this photo provided by the New Mexico National Guard, a New Mexico National Guard Aviation UH-60 Black Hawk flies as part of firefighting efforts, dropping thousands of gallons of water with Bambi buckets from the air on the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire in northern New Mexico on Sunday, May, 1.

The wildfires burning in the Southwest are bad but 'not unprecedented'

Experts say the Southwestern U.S. is drier than it's been in some 1,200 years, which is one of, but not the only, drivers of the large infernos burning in New Mexico.

A sign for an Exxon-branded gas station stands in Brooklyn, New York, on Oct. 28, 2016. Oil companies enjoyed a surge in profits in the first three months of 2022.

The good times are rolling for Big Oil. 3 things to know about their surging profits

Major energy companies have reported a surge in profits in the first three months of the year as oil prices have rallied.

An Israeli protester places a sticker on a banner showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a demonstration outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem on June 5. The Hebrew reads: "You failed" and "Leave."

Assessing Benjamin Netanyahu's 12 Uninterrupted Years In Power

The Israeli prime minister leaves office with a legacy that includes economic prosperity, a growing partisan divide in the U.S. over support for Israel and the unresolved conflict with Palestinians.

Russia's oil drilling plans may be in jeopardy without the West's support

Russia has long planned on expanding its oil drilling in the Arctic. But that relies on help from Western companies that are now pulling back because of the war in Ukraine.

A woman walks past the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. The State Department is ordering the families of all American personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv to leave the country and allowing non-essential staff to leave Ukraine. The move comes amid heightened fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine despite talks between U.S. and Russian officials.

EXPLAINER: What are US options for sanctions against Putin?

The financial options being bruited about to punish President Vladimir Putin if Russia invades Ukraine range from the sweeping to the acutely personal.

In Ukraine, abortion laws are very liberal. But Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war found much more restrictive laws in neighboring Poland.

This secretive network helps Ukrainian refugees find abortions in Europe

Ukraine has very liberal abortion laws. In Poland, it is almost entirely illegal. Millions of Ukrainians discovered this when they fled the war in their home country and crossed the Polish border.

A member of a rescue team searches for survivors at the site of a deadly explosion at the Hotel Saratoga, in Havana, on Friday.

26 people died in an explosion at a hotel in Havana

Relatives of the missing in Cuba's capital desperately searched for victims of an explosion at one of Havana's most luxurious hotels. A natural gas leak was the apparent cause of Friday's blast

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