The WNBA star’s defense team is expected to argue her case at Thursday’s hearing, the third in her trial on drug charges. She could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
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US provides Kiev with intelligence on Donbass targets – Moscow
Washington also sent instructors to Ukraine to help with US-supplied rocket systems, the Russian Foreign Ministry says
Washington has not only supplied long-range High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Kiev, but is also providing intelligence on targets in Donbass and has even “unofficially” sent instructors to Ukraine to help with the hardware, the Russian Foreign Ministry claimed on Thursday.
Moscow alleges that the Ukrainian government has ordered troops to shell civilians in the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics with the help of the US-made weapons.
READ MORE: Donbass republic says Ukraine hit ammo depot
Speaking at a media briefing in Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said that Ukrainian forces “have used US-supplied multiple-launch rocket systems HIMARS on all fronts” of late. She added that Washington has been actively sharing intelligence on targets with Kiev, and has even “unofficially dispatched instructors, who were helping representatives of the Kiev regime to aim correctly.”
Zakharova linked the recent uptick in Ukrainian shelling with the delivery of the US-made rocket systems.
She noted that the Ukrainian military “has apparently been ordered by Kiev to use the said launchers against civilians without any hesitation.”
Also on Thursday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement, saying that Moscow’s “operation will continue despite attempts by the US and its allies to ‘strengthen the security’ of Ukraine.”
More women work in health and care but they earn 24 per cent less than men: UN report
Women working in the health and care sector earn nearly 25 per cent less than their male counterparts – a larger gender pay gap than in other economic sectors, two UN agencies said in a new report on Wednesday.
Food Security: We Are Still Going Backwards
ROME, Jul 13 (IPS) – The signs of the last few years indicate a continuous setback towards achieving food security. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO) annual report, “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI)”, prepared together with other UN agencies and presented on July 6th leaves no doubt about the dangerous situation in which we find ourselves regarding the real possibilities of eliminating hunger and poverty by 2030, as solemnly proposed by the international community in October 2015 in New York.
Read the full story, “Food Security: We Are Still Going Backwards”, on globalissues.org →
ROME, Jul 13 (IPS)
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Some of the issues that President Biden and Israeli leaders will meet about
President Biden started on a series of deals in Israel meant to show the ties between the two countries. The subject of a Palestinian-American journalist killed in the West Bank may be on the agenda.