International Business Times
The International Business Times is an online global business newspaper based in New York City, comprising 10 national editions and seven languages. The publication, sometimes called IBTimes or IBT, offers news, analysis and editorial commentary on business and business-related stories[2] It is ranked by Alexa as the sixth-most visited site among business newspapers.
Launched in 2005, IBTimes was created to provide news services to the international business community. It is a privately held company and still owned by its co-founders Etienne Uzac and Johnathan Davis. Its headquarters are in the former Newsweek offices in the Financial District of New York.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that the U.S. is "actively engaged" with Russia in discussions over a prisoner swap to return American prisoners Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan.
Appearing on CBS News' "Face The Nation," Blinken said negotiations with Russia were ongoing.
"...We did put a significant proposal on the table many months ago. And since then, we've been engaged repeatedly, in any way that we can to try to advance it and to look to see if there are different permutations that could achieve what we're trying to achieve, which is to get our people home," Blinken said.
"Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan -- we're engaged in that on a regular basis. And it's my determination that we bring our people home. We will not stop until we do."
Griner is a professional basketball player who has been detained in Russia since February for possessing a small quantity of cannabis oil. Griner was transferred to a penal colony after being sentenced to nine years in prison.