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The WNBA star is expected to receive sentencing upon the trial’s conclusion.

The U.S. has presented Russia with a “substantial proposal” aimed at securing the release of Brittney Griner, the WNBA star detained in Russia on drug charges, and Paul Whelan, another American jailed in Russia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday.

The statement marked the first time the U.S. government has publicly revealed any concrete action it has taken to secure the release of Griner.

As the war in Ukraine drags on, both Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy say it’s going their way.

Russia is the source of less than 1% of the foreign direct investment into Africa. Substantively, then, Russia brings little to the continent. But the fact that Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is making a high-profile trip to Africa in the throes of Russia’s war on Ukraine reveals how much…

Russia’s foreign minister said his country supports reforming the U.N. Security Council to give a more powerful role to developing nations, including African countries

The war in Ukraine may be entering a new stage as long-range rocket systems supplied by the U.S. disrupt Russia’s grinding advance in the eastern Donbas region, and open the door for a possible counteroffensive.

Moscow’s top diplomat heightens rhetoric, saying Zelenskyy’s government is ‘anti-people and anti-historical’.

Russia appears to have reversed itself after the country's top diplomat said Moscow's overarching goal is to topple the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Russian artillery barrages and air strikes continue to pummel cities across Ukraine. The remark from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov comes amid Ukraine's efforts…