US first lady Jill Biden in the capital of the United Arab Emirates on her last solo foreign trip

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Jill Biden used a tour of the United Arab Emirates’ capital Thursday to praise efforts to fight cancer and call for more attention on women’s health issues as part of her final solo foreign tour as first lady. Sheikha Fatima, known as the “mother of the nation,” is a wife of the UAE’s late first ruler Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and the mother of its current ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. We heard: ‘Brain cancer.’ We heard nothing else.” Afterward, Biden visited Qasr Al Hosn, a historic fort in the center of Abu Dhabi’s gleaming skyscrapers. For her part, Jill Biden on Monday said: “Of course, I support the pardon of my son.” Biden found herself welcomed without any political questions, only acknowledging in passing at the Milken Institute’s Middle East and Africa Summit Thursday afternoon that she and her husband will soon “leave office together.” “Women deserve answers about their health, because this is really an economic issue I think for women, and globally really, the research and the funding and the products,” Biden told the summit, noting that medical research for too long had focused primarily on men.