The Palestinian Authority on Saturday said it has given the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to American forensic experts, taking a step toward resolving a standoff with Israel over the investigation into her death. Source: Palestinians give bullet that killed journalist to U.S. team
By noreply@blogger.com (Newsrust) The detention center just outside Moscow where American basketball star Brittney Griner was held is a former orphanage rebuilt a decade ago to house women imprisoned before trial and, separately, women serving their prison sentence. Its artificially lit gray-painted hallways and tall, eerie walls match its bureaucratic name: Correctional Colony No. 1, […]
By Agence France-Presse The trial of US basketball star Brittney Griner, detained in Russia since February, opened on Friday as tensions rage over Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine. “The trial has started,” Polina Vdovtsova, the spokeswoman for the court in the town of Khimki outside Moscow, told reporters. Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and WNBA […]