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   A Russian court has sentenced American basketball player Brittany Griner to nine years in prison and fined her one million rubles (about Rs 13 lakh).  Brittany has been accused of drug trafficking.  US President Joe Biden has rejected the court proceedings.  He has asked Russia to accept the 'prisoner swap deal'.  Here, Russia said that it is ready to discuss the prisoner swap deal with the US. What is Prisoner Swap Deal? For the release of Griner, America had placed a deal with Russia for prisoner swapping, that is, to release another prisoner for one prisoner.  The US offered to release the dangerous Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in exchange for Brittany. White House National Security Spokesperson John Kirby said – We have put forward a serious agreement with Russia.  Russia should accept it.  According to the news agency Reuters, Russia is also demanding the release of Vadim Krassikov in this prisoner deal.  Vadim is imprisoned i...

   Amidst China-Taiwan tensions, the dead body of an officer of the Research and Development Unit of the Taiwan Defense Ministry has been found.  O Yang Li-hing, deputy head of the Taiwan Defense Ministry's National Chung-shan Institute of Science and Technology, was found dead in a hotel room in Pingtung city on Saturday morning, the Central News Agency (CNA) reported. Officials said 57-year-old O Yang died of a heart attack.  His family also told that he had heart-related ailments.  The CNA said that O Yang had gone to Pingtung city on business.  He was supervising several missile production projects.  At the beginning of the year, he took over as the deputy head.  His death has come at a time when China is continuously doing military drill near Taiwan. Chinese jets entering Taiwan's airspace Angry over the visit of US Parliament Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, China has been conducting military drills since August 3.  Chinese army jets are...

  The dispute between China and Taiwan is increasing.  China has become more aggressive as soon as US Parliament Speaker Nancy Pelosi returns from Taiwan.  On Thursday, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China started military exercises in 6 areas around Taiwan.  More than 100 Chinese fighter jets flew into Taiwan's northern, southwestern and southeastern airspace. Earlier, Taiwan's Defense Ministry reported that the PLA had fired 11 Dongfeng ballistic missiles near their northeast and southwest coast.  At the same time, 5 ballistic missiles fired by China have fallen in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Japan.  Japan's Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said that a protest has been lodged through the diplomatic channel. Victory over Taiwan is not easy for China: 3.5 million Taiwanese specialize in guerrilla warfare;  5 point strategy prepared in advance for war Understand from the map where the military exercise is happening Important updates related ...