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By RUTH YAMBYAMBA 

VICE-PRESIDENT Mutale Nalumango has set the tone on the imminent Kabushi and Kwacha constituencies’ by-elections claiming that it would be prejudicial to debate the judgement of the Constitutional Court that has ruled that Bowman Lusambo and Joseph Malanji were eligible to re-contest their seats. 

Recently incarcerated people with opioid use disorder have trust in working with peer support specialists who recovered from addiction and faced similar life experiences, according to a Rutgers study.

A study in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute Cancer Spectrum looked at chatbots and artificial intelligence (AI), as they become popular resources for cancer information. They found these resources give accurate information when asked about common cancer myths and misconceptions. In the first study of its kind, Skyler Johnson, MD, physician-scientist at Huntsman Cancer Institute and assistant professor in the department of radiation oncology at the University of Utah (the U), evaluated the reliability and accuracy of ChatGPT’s cancer information.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over alleged war crimes in Ukraine, a move dismissed by Moscow as meaningless.

The Hague-based court said in a statement on Friday the warrant was issued over Putin’s suspected involvement in the unlawful deportation and transfer of children from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia.

“There are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility” for the child abductions “for having committed the acts directly, jointly with others and/or through others (and) for his failure to exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts,” the statement added.

The ICC, which has no powers to enforce its own warrants, also issued a warrant for the arrest of Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, the commissioner for children’s rights in the office of the Russian president, on similar allegations.

Russia, which denies committing atrocities since it invaded Ukraine in February last year, rejected the ICC’s move as null and void.

“The decisions of the International Criminal Court have no meaning for our country, including from a legal point of view,” Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on her Telegram channel after the announcement.

“Russia is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and bears no obligations under it.”

SOURCE: Al Jazeera

You have no power here: What the ICC ‘arrest warrant’ means for Putin

Russia has dismissed “war crimes” accusations against its president as null and void

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova may have committed war crimes by “deporting” and “transferring” children from Ukraine. Moscow has dismissed the move as preposterous and not legally binding, since Russia has never ratified the court’s jurisdiction.

What does the ICC claim?

The Court’s Pre-trial Chamber issued an “arrest warrant” for Putin and Lvova-Belova, accusing them of personal and command responsibility for what they described as “unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine.” The accusations appear to be based on the Kiev government’s interpretation of Russian efforts to evacuate civilians away from frontline areas that the Ukrainian military has targeted, often with NATO-supplied weapons.

What does the “warrant” mean?

In legal terms, nothing. Though Russia was one of the signatories to the Rome Statute, the ICC’s founding document, it never ratified the treaty and officially withdrew from it in 2016. Whatever the court claims or does is null and void in Russia, both Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov and Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed on Friday.

Is Russia alone in not recognizing the ICC?

While 123 states have signed the Rome Statute, 41 have not – including China, India, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye. Besides Russia, Israel, Sudan and the US have also withdrawn their signatures. The US Congress even passed a law in 2002 prohibiting any cooperation with the court and authorizing “all means necessary and appropriate” to release any American – or national of an allied country – from the Hague, by military force if necessary.

What was the Russian reaction?

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the ICC announcement as “outrageous and unacceptable.” Senator Andrey Klishas, from the ruling United Russia party, said the ICC just put itself on the road to self-destruction. Former president and deputy chair of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev compared the “warrant” to toilet paper. Crimean Senator Sergei Tsekov said the ICC decision demonstrates that Western-created institutions have become “worthless and insignificant.” Lvova-Belova sarcastically thanked the “international community” for appreciating her work to help rescue children from the zone of combat operations.

SOURCE: RT News

A National indaba in which stakeholders can help resolve the various political and economic challenges the country has been besieged with has been proposed. 

In early March, Eli Lilly made headlines after announcing a new $35 price cap on insulin for individuals with private insurance. Novo Nordisk and Sanofi made their own price reduction announcements shortly after Eli Lilly’s move.

University of Utah Health scientists have corrected abnormal heart rhythms in mice by restoring healthy levels of a protein that heart cells need to establish connections with one another. That protein, GJA1-20k, is underproduced in people with a genetic condition called arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, one of the leading causes of sudden cardiac arrest in athletes under the age of 35.

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed a bill Friday night prohibiting abortion pills in the state and also allowed a separate measure restricting abortion to become law without his signature.

By NATION REPORTER

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema is dividing the country by his continued attacks and maligning of his predecessor, former Edgar Lungu and should therefore regulate his bitterness and unite the country, Chishala Kateka has said.

Ms Kateka, the New Heritage Party (NHP) president is worried that the political trajectory tasken by President Hichilema of insulting ad disrespecting former President Lungu was only dividing the country.

Ms Kateka said the two leaders should know that they are the foremost opinion makers and influencers in the country.

she said if they indicate that they are enemies, then their followers will follow suit.

Ms Kateka said, most of their followers are young people already prone to violence as evidenced during youth day celebration.

Ms Kateka said, the former president owes the people, conduct and public engagement that is in keeping with the decorum of his office which is above all, non partisan.  

She said, if he engaged in partisan politics, he will lose that privileged position and respect.

Ms Kateka said, Mr Lungu should at this time, be available to the state and the incumbent head of state.

She also said president Hichilema should desist from uttering abusive language against the former head of state.

She said, the way he conducted himself while in Kitwe at the upnd conference was uncalled for.

EMERITUS Archbishop Telesphone Mpundu has described the Ndola-Lusaka Dual Carriageway as nothing but daylight robbery against Zambians and has advised Government to consider going back to renegotiate the deal because it was most likely going to economically sweep citizens naked.