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All eyes were on Caitlin Clark at the 2024 WNBA Draft—and her red-carpet fit.  

The former Iowa Hawkeyes player, who was the No. 1 pick this year, had a major fashion moment when she arrived at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Monday night donning head-to-toe Prada. The 22-year-old athlete sported a matching white double satin shirt and skirt from the Italian luxury label, along with a sparkly rhinestone mesh top underneath and black brushed leather slingback pumps. To complete the look, Clark rocked the brand’s black Galleria handbag and pink-tinted acetate sunglasses. 

“I love Prada. I think Prada is very me,” Clark told GQ Sports prior to walking the carpet. “Prada’s never dressed a WNBA player or an NBA player for the draft, so it’s very fun.”  

The two-time Naismith National Player of the Year was styled by Adri Zgirdea Toth, founder of AZSN Studio. And opting for Prada was an easy decision. “The look is elegant, classic, timeless, with a little extra sparkle, just like Caitlin,” Toth told Marie Claire. “Dressing an athlete for the draft is a first for Prada, and this is obviously a first for Caitlin, too. Both are at the forefront of what they do—it’s almost too perfect.” 

During Monday’s draft, it was announced that Clark would be heading to the Indiana Fever to start her professional career. The rookie athlete made headlines when she became the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer in men’s and women’s major college basketball history. “I dreamed of this moment since I was in second grade, and it’s taken a lot of hard work, a lot of ups and downs, but more than anything, just trying to soak it in,” Clark told CBS News.

The Iowa senior could’ve played another season in the division, however, in February, she shared a statement via X that she would be entering the 2024 WNBA Draft instead. Of course, Clark has already broken a record in her first hours as a professional women’s basketball player. Hours after she officially joined the Fever, TMZ reported that Clark’s WNBA jersey had already sold out on sports retailer Fanatics. Maybe fans will want to cop her Prada co-ord, too.  

NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India killed at least 29 suspected Maoist rebels in the central state of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday, authorities said, three days ahead of the start of a national election in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third term.

According to a statement, police launched a raid after a tipoff about the presence of Maoists in the Kanker district. Three members of the security forces were wounded in the gunfight, after which police seized several weapons.

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Indian soldiers have been battling Maoist rebels across several central and northern states since 1967, when the militants — also known as Naxalites — began fighting to demand more jobs, land and wealth from natural resources for the country’s poor indigenous communities.

Indian government says the insurgents, inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, pose the country’s most serious internal security threat.

The rebels are active in several parts of India, especially in Chhattisgarh, one of the country’s poorest states despite its vast mineral wealth, and often attack government troops and officials.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah vowed to eliminate insurgency from the state and described it as the “biggest enemy of development, peace and bright future of youth.”

“We are determined to free the country from the scourge of Naxalism,” Shah wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Law obliges men to update their draft data, increases payments to volunteers and adds new punishments for draft dodging.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed into law a bill overhauling army mobilisation rules as Ukraine seeks to address acute troop shortages in its fight against Russia’s invasion.

The law will come into force a month after its publication on Ukraine’s parliamentary website on Tuesday.

It obliges men to update their draft data with the authorities, boosts payments to those who volunteer and adds new punishments for draft dodging.

It remains unclear how many soldiers could be mobilised under the new provisions although some serving military personnel and analysts have expressed concern that the law will not be enough to address shortages.

The law lacks much tougher sanctions for draft evasion that were contained in the initial version of the legislation.

The draft caused a public outcry, and there were more than 4,000 amendments before the final reading in parliament.

Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford, reporting from Lyman in eastern Ukraine, said the law was expected to make it easier to boost conscription amid fears that Russia could launch a new offensive in the coming months.

“Western intelligence agencies and the Ukrainian military say they expect the Russian forces to mount what is being described as ‘a concerted push’ in the next few weeks, certainly by early summer,” he said.

“This is very important when we already know that Ukraine is suffering a severe manpower shortage,” he said.

Draft age lowered

Zelenskyy recently signed a separate law cutting the draft age to 25 from 27 to try to secure more fighting power.

Ukraine began mobilisation immediately after Russia’s invasion in February 2022. The country initially saw a significant influx of volunteer fighters, but numbers later plunged, and thousands of cases of draft evasion have been reported since.

Kyiv’s troops are facing a shortage of ammunition as vital funding from the United States has been blocked by Republicans in Congress for months and the European Union is failing to deliver munitions on time while Russian forces are inching forward.

Army chief Oleksandr Syrskyii said last week that the situation on the eastern front had significantly escalated recently and Russian troops aimed to capture the town of Chasiv Yar by May 9.