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…as government moves to amend the National Prosecutions Authority Act, 2010 to reduce and revise the composition and powers of the Director of Public Prosecutions

By NATION REPORTER

AFTER a heated debate and division of the house, Parliament yesterday voted for the National Prosecutions Authority Act, 2010 amendment Bill which is seeking reduce and revise the composition and powers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema is today expected to travel to Ghana at the invitation of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Stanley Kakubo said in a statement that the purpose of the visit is to explore and harness the immense potential for enhanced cooperation in various sectors of social and […]

POLICE in North-Western province have launched a manhunt for a Grade 12 school leaver who allegedly sexually abused his 14-year-old girlfriend. The ‘victim’ , who is a grade eight pupil at a named school is believed to have left home on July 3rd, this year and returned home the next day on July 4th around […]

BY GRACE CHAILE

THE Court of Appeal, has granted a freezing order, preventing Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) from exporting minerals extracted over the mining tenement allegedly belonging to Kalymnos Processing Limited, pending determination of an appeal.

THE body of a Luanshya man who threw himself on Gideon dam after his mother failed to give him a K2 has been retrieved. Samson Zulu 32 of Mikomfwa area committed suicide at the dam on July 3,2023 around 18:00 hours. The deceased was retrieved from the dam the next morning by a team of […]

A study led by McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences researchers at the Population Research Health Institute (PHRI) has found that not eating enough of six key foods in combination is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in adults.

AI (artificial intelligence) may sound like a cold robotic system, but Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have shown that it can deliver heartwarming—or, more to the point, “heart-warning”—support. They unveiled an innovative use of AI that classifies cardiac functions and pinpoints valvular heart disease with unprecedented accuracy, demonstrating continued progress in merging the fields of medicine and technology to advance patient care. The results will be published in The Lancet Digital Health.

Midlife structural changes to the jawbone may signal subsequent height loss in women, suggests research published in the open access journal BMJ Open.

A global study, led by UCL and UCLH, has shown that the cancer immunotherapy atezolizumab significantly improved the overall survival of advanced stage non-small cell lung cancer patients who were not able to be treated with platinum-containing chemotherapy, when compared to single-agent chemotherapy.

Patient aggression towards receptionists working in general practice is a “serious workplace safety concern,” concludes a review of the available evidence published in Family Medicine and Community Health.