April 15 (Reuters) - Manchester United centre back Harry Maguire will miss their Premier League match at Chelsea after receiving a one-match ban following a misconduct charge, the English Football Association said on Wednesday.
Samples of now-dead garden ants inside plastic containers are presented at the Jomo Kenya tta International Law Courts in Nairobi, Kenya . - Photo: Reuters NAIROBI: A Chinese national was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison and fined by a Nairobi court for attempting to smuggle thousands of ants out of Kenya , a lucrative trade exposed in east Africa last year.
The insects are mostly destined for China, the United States and Europe, where they become pets and can be worth around S$100 each. Ant smuggling made headlines last year when two Belgian teens were arrested in possession of nearly 5,000 ants, mostly stored in test tubes, and fined roughly $7,700. Zhang Kequn, who evaded capture until his arrest March 10, had been linked to another case, involving a Vietnamese and a Kenyan national. More than 2,200 ants -- including 1,948 prized messor cephalotes -- were found in test tubes in Zhang's luggage at Nairobi's international airport, destined for China. He was initially charged with wildlife trafficking without a permit and conspiracy, which carries a seven-year sentence, his lawyer said. Following the dismissal of the latter charge, he pleaded guilty. At the court in Nairobi, judge Irene Gichobi described Zhang as lacking in remorse and"not an entirely honest person". She said he would be"fined Kenya shillings 1 million" and ordered one year in jail, following a 14-day appeal. After, he will be"referred to his home country". "There is need for a stiff deterrent sentence," she said, noting the"rising cases of dealing in large quantities of garden ants and the negative ecological side effects".Asean News Headlines at 10pm on Wednesday 15 power banks taken from travellers flying out of Singapore's Changi Airport as new two-device rule kicks inDeath toll from India's power plant boiler blast rises to 17
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