Igor Kirillov, the chief of Russia’s radioactive ... The Russian president, in a marathon annual news conference, said that he had not yet met with Bashar al-Assad, the ousted Syrian leader ...

agreed that the news would have been worse if the mutations had been seen in the virus from the Louisiana patient’s poultry. But she called the current H5N1 situation “grim,” noting there ...

has been placed on Russia’s “wanted” list, according to an Interior Ministry database seen by the AFP news agency. Yashin, 41, was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison at the end of ...