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 WNBA star Brittney Griner fears she will have to spend her entire nine-year drug possession prison sentence in Russia, her attorney there told the New York Times . “She has not been in as good condition as I could sometimes find her in. She is not yet absolutely convinced that America will be able to take her home,” her Russian attorney, Alexandr D. Boykov told the Times on Wednesday. “She is very worried about what the price of that will be, and she is afraid that she will have to serve the whole sentence here in Russia.” Griner was arrested Feb. 17 at a Russian airport after officials found vaping cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage. She was charged with smuggling narcotics, People reported. She pleaded guilty to the charges in July and was sentenced Aug. 4 to nine years in a Russian prison, according to the report. President Joe Biden told CNN on Tuesday that while he will not meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G20 international summit schedu...

 India, along with G7 countries and four invited countries, Monday signed the ‘2022 Resilient Democracies Statement’ in which they committed to “guarding the freedom, independence and diversity of civil society actors” and “protecting the freedom of expression and opinion online and offline”. A four-page statement, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in the G-7 summit in Germany, said, “We, the Leaders of Germany, Argentina, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Senegal, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the European Union, affirm our commitment to strengthening the resilience of our democracies.” “We hail all courageous defenders of democratic systems that stand against oppression and violence, and will step up international cooperation to improve the resilience of democratic societies globally,” it stated. The signatories said that democracies enable “open public debate, independent and pluralistic media” and the “fr...