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                 A r u b a ’ s   O N L Y   E n g l i s h   n e w s p a p e r
                 Aruba’s ONLY English newspaper
            WNBA star Griner freed in swap for                                                     Hyro Oduber won the ‘plane


            Russian arms dealer Bout                                                               spotting’ competition at the
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                                                                                                   Prime minister of Aruba

                                                                                                   met with prime minister of

                                                                                                   the Netherlands regarding


            Cherelle Griner, wife of WNBA star Brittney Griner, speaks after President Joe Biden announced   slavery in the region
            Brittney Griner’s release in a prisoner swap with Russia, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, in the Roosevelt
            Room of the White House in Washington. Also attending are Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left,
            and Vice President Kamala Harris.
                                                                                  Associated Press
            By ERIC TUCKER, MATTHEW LEE and            officials.
            ZEKE MILLER                                Biden’s  authorization  to  release  Bout,
            Associated Press                           the  Russian  felon  once  nicknamed  “the
            WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia freed WNBA  Merchant  of  Death,”  underscored  the
            star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a high-  heightened  urgency  that  his  administra-
            profile  prisoner  exchange,  as  the  U.S.  re-  tion faced to get Griner home, particularly
            leased  notorious  Russian  arms  dealer  after the recent resolution of her criminal
            Viktor  Bout  but  failed  to  win  freedom  for  case  on  drug  charges  and  subsequent
            another American, Paul Whelan, who has  transfer  to  a  penal  colony.  Griner,  who
            been jailed for nearly four years.         also played pro basketball in Russia, was
            The deal, the second in eight months amid  arrested at an airport there last February
            tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,  for bringing less than a gram of cannabis
            secured the release of the most prominent  oil in vape cartridges into the country.
            American detained abroad and achieved  Griner is a two-time Olympic gold medalist,
            a top goal for President Joe Biden. But it  Baylor University All-American and Phoenix
            carried what U.S. officials described as a  Mercury pro basketball star, whose arrest
            heavy price.                               in February made her the most high-profile
            “She’s safe, she’s on a plane, she’s on her  American jailed abroad.
            way  home,”  Biden  said  from  the  White
            House,  where  he  was  accompanied  by                           Continued on Page 2                                          Page 7
            Griner’s wife, Cherelle, and administration
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