⚡️ The court will announce the verdict for the basketball player Griner in a few hours, our Sputnik correspondent reports

📌 WATCH LIVE | Blue Origin launches NS-22 space tourist mission

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⚡️ WTI crude drops below $90 per barrel first time since February 21

❗️ Alexander Vinnik has flown from France to Greece - lawyer

❗️🎥 "They broke my arms and smashed my legs": A resident of a village near Lugansk described how he was tortured by Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

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🇱🇧 Parts of the Beirut grain silos have collapsed on the second anniversary of the massive explosion that damaged them.

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🇺🇸🗣 The FBI is concerned that foreign terrorist organizations such as Daesh and Al-Qaeda intend to carry out or inspire large-scale attacks in the US - director.

*Daesh (also known as ISIS/ISIL/IS) and Al-Qaeda are terrorist organizations banned in Russia.

🎥 The moment of the grain silo's partial collapse.

⚡️⚡️ Russian court finds US basketball player Brittney Griner guilty of drug smuggling.

The court is yet to announce her sentence.

❗️ Canada's defense minister authorizes the deployment of Canadian Armed Forces to train new Ukrainian military recruits.

🇹🇼 🇨🇳 The Taiwanese Defense Ministry has said that 22 Chinese military aircraft entered the island’s air defense zone.

❗️Russian court sentences US basketball player Brittney Griner to 9 years in prison for drug smuggling

❗️ NATO fully supports New START Treaty agreement between Russia and US, representative says

🎥 US basketball player Brittney Griner after the verdict. When asked how she feels, she replied, "I love my family."

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🗣 In an exclusive comment to Sputnik, Alexander Vinnik's lawyer Zoe Konstantopoulou speaks about his case and his extradition to Greece.

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❗️ US delays the Minuteman III missile test amid tensions over Taiwan - reports

🔭 French astronomer apologizes for "planet" photo that was really...chorizo

Last Sunday, French scientist Etienne Klein posted a tweet claiming to contain the latest astonishing picture taken by the James Webb Space Telescope of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun.

💬 “This level of detail… A new world is revealed every day,” the joke tweet reads.

👀 While most Twitter users recognized the sausage in the picture, others were more gullible, which started a backlash - with users accusing Klein of spreading misinformation.

Later, Klein acknowledged that the joke went out of hand and wrote his apology on Wednesday: “Given some of the comments, I feel compelled to clarify that this tweet containing an alleged snapshot of Proxima Centauri was entertainment.”

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🇷🇺🇮🇳 EXCLUSIVE | President of the Indian National Cultural Center Sammy Kotwani says that India Day Festival would be impossible without "the love of Russian people".

❗️ The coordination center in Istanbul is planning the departure of 3 carrier tankers with grain from Ukrainian ports - the Turkish Defense Ministry.