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A district court in Moscow said in a statement that Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor at Channel One, had been found guilty of the “administrative offense” and had been fined 30,000 rubles ($280). Ovsyannikova was pictured in court earlier with one of her lawyers, Anton Gashinsky. Dmitry Zakhvatov, a lawyer who had formerly been representing Ovsyannikova, told CNN that the administrative charge was based solely on a video statement that she recorded prior to appearing with an anti-war poster on Channel One. Taking a courageous stance against Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government, Ovsyannikova on Monday protested on air, standing…

Abena Kyei, host of Fontomfrom on Kantanka TV, has advised people aspiring to enter the entertainment industry to look beyond the luxury clothes, endorsement deals, cars, glitz and glamour that come with stardom.What they may not know is how hard it is and how real the struggle is to maintain that stardom.She is therefore advising people to be careful what they wish for because being a star is not easy. According to her, one of the questions she had had to answer from her followers was how to become a star.“I have had to answer this question over and over again but I…

Inside the seedy boarding house where three men living in tiny squalid rooms were burnt alive in a fire police allege was lit with accelerant – as their flatmate is charged with triple murderPhotos show inside the seedy boarding house where three men died in fireThe 12-room hostel described by ex-residents as ‘squalid’ with ‘tiny’ roomsFellow resident  Richard Hotoran, 45, charged with triple murderPolice allege deadly blaze was deliberately lit after finding jerry canBoarding house owned by Malaysian-born landlord of seven rooming hostelsBy Candace Sutton for Daily Mail Australia Published: 20:32 EDT, 15 March 2022 | Updated: 22:37 EDT, 15…

(CNN) — When ice cream maker Adrienne Borlongan first experimented with a White Rabbit flavor, she thought it tasted like “cheap vanilla.” A few weeks after adding it to the rotating lineup at her Los Angeles shop, Wanderlust Creamery, visitors were about as meh on it as she was. But when Borlongan posted a photo of an ice cream cone wrapped in White Rabbit-branded paper, word quickly spread on social media. The candy, first manufactured in Shanghai in the 1940s, is known for its iconic red-white-and-blue packaging and beloved by kids all over China. And when Chinese people began emigrating…

The Bono Region has achieved about 89 per cent survival rate of tree seedlings planted in 2021 under the government’s Green Ghana project.Mr Stephen Mwinayelle, the Deputy Bono Regional Manager of the Forestry Services Division (FSD) revealed in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani, that the region exceeded its target of 250,000 by planting 604,868 species of tree seedlings.“These young trees survived and are growing well,” Mr Mwinayelle said.Mr Mwinayelle commended institutions, groups, individuals and religious bodies that participated in the exercise last year, and expressed the hope they would continue to nurture the trees for…

Volodymyr Zelensky’s team tonight said a peace deal will be struck with Vladimir Putin within one or two weeks that will end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine because Russian forces will run out of fresh troops and supplies by then.Oleksiy Arestovich, one of Zelensky’s top aides, said the war would end within weeks and a peace deal struck when Putin’s troops run out of resources, but warned that Russia could bring in new reinforcements to bolster their attack, which could prolong the conflict further.’We are at a fork in the road now,’ said Arestovich. ‘There will either be a peace deal struck…

Mariupol city council said on Tuesday that an estimated 2,000 private cars have been able to leave the city, and a further 2,000 vehicles are parked on the main route out of Mariupol as of 2 p.m. local time Tuesday.The departures took place despite the ongoing failure to formally establish safe corridors to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, which has been besieged since March 1. As many as 2,500 civilians have died in Mariupol, Ukrainian officials estimate. About 350,000 people are trapped in the city, with officials warning those who remain are without electricity, water and heat.Two women who managed to…

Two years after Ghana confirmed its first two cases of COVID-19 on March 12, 2020, a total of 1,445 people have succumbed to the disease.Latest data by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) indicates that of a cumulative 160,716 people infected by the virus, 159,112 have recovered although COVID-19 was presently active in 159 individuals.Fortunately however, the country has no critical cases with only one person in a severe condition contrary to previous years where most intensive care units (ICUs) were overwhelmed with critical cases of COVID-19.The Ashanti region which hitherto was the second epicentre for COVID-19 cases currently has no…

Around 20,000 Ukrainians fled the besieged city of Mariupol last night along a humanitarian corridor in what is believed to be the biggest evacuation yet from the seaport. After days of relentless Russian shelling, a mass exodus of civilians in at least 4,000 cars left the seaport via the designated route, which runs west for more than 160 miles to the Ukraine-held city of Zaporizhzhia.But while families rushed to escape in their droves, there were desperate scenes in Mariupol’s hospitals, which continue to be under attack from Putin’s forces.In the city’s hospital number three, a heartbreaking picture showed tiny premature children…

Following the meeting, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called for the European Union to “very quickly” grant Ukraine candidate status.”We are here to admire your fight against such a cruel aggressor. This invasion has to stop,” Morawiecki said. “Those who are killed by (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, they can never be forgotten. They are not forgotten.”He also emphasized Poland, which shares a 310-mile border with Ukraine, would try to help Ukraine organize its defenses. “We will never leave you alone. We will be with you. Because we know you are fighting not only for your homes, for your freedom, for…