Two-time Olympic medalist and seven-time WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner was found guilty in a Russia court of drug smuggling with criminal intent. Griner pleaded guilty to drug charges last month in what her lawyers say was an attempt to take responsibility and receive leniency. Griner was sentenced by the court to 9 years of jail [...]
Enhancing emergency coordination at ministries, departments, and agencies level, and turning early warnings into effective actions are the focus of technical assistance being provided by the World Bank to Seychelles' Disaster Risk Management Division (DRMD). The assistance is for the operationalisation of the National Integrated Emergency Management Plan (NIEMP), which provides a consistent framework to which [...]
US House Speaker Pelosi may have left Taiwan, but the retaliation from China is only beginning. Beijing is staging what it claims is the largest ever military drills around Taiwan that simulate a blockade. CNN's Selina Wang reports. Source: Latest CNN News
Crisis-hit Lebanon marks two years Thursday since a massive explosion ripped through Beirut, with victims' relatives planning protest marches as they keep demanding truth and justice. The portside blast of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrate, one of the biggest ever non-nuclear explosions, killed more than 200 people, wounded thousands more and decimated vast areas of the [...]
Around five percent of people who have had Covid-19 develop long-lasting problems with their sense of smell or taste, a large study said Thursday, potentially contributing to the burden of long Covid. A lost sense of smell has been a hallmark of contracting coronavirus since the early days of the pandemic, but it has not [...]
A group of 137 Seychellois students is expected to start tertiary education this year, figures from the Agency for National Human Resource Development (ANHRD) show. The principal scholarship administrator, Barbara Kilindo, told SNA that out of the students who have qualified for a government scholarship in 2022, 64 will be going overseas whereas 73 have [...]
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Closing arguments are expected Thursday in WNBA star Brittney Griner's drug-smuggling trial in Russia amid concerns that she is being used as a political pawn in the country's war on Ukraine. Source: Latest CNN News
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China has deployed ships and scrambled jets for live-fire exercises around Taiwan hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her delegation left the island. CNN's Will Ripley reports. Source: Latest CNN News