News Snapshot:
A Russian arms trafficker who is serving a 25-year jail term in the United States knows nothing about a possible exchange with two American prisoners in Russia, his wife said. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that Washington had made a “substantial proposal” to Moscow to free basketball star Brittney Griner and former US Marine Paul Whelan. He declined to confirm reports that the US was offering to trade them for convicted trafficker Victor Bout. Bout, 55, is the highest-profile Russian prisoner serving time in the US and inspired the 2005 arms smuggling movie Lord of War...
