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The International Criminal Court intends to open two war crimes cases tied to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and will seek arrest warrants for several people, officials said. They are the first international charges to be brought forward since the start of the conflict, and it was not clear whom the court planned to charge in each case. The charges allege that Russia abducted Ukrainian children and sent them to Russian re-education camps and that the Kremlin deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure. Some outside experts said it was possible that Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader, could be charged, as the court does not recognize immunity for a head of state in cases involving war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide. The Kremlin has denied accusations of war crimes, but international and Ukrainian investigators have gathered powerful evidence of an array of atrocities since the invasion’s early days. The chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, must present his charges to pr...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is testing Switzerland’s longstanding tolerance for standing on the sidelines and serving the world’s elite on equal terms, putting the country in a bind of competing interests and leading to accusations that it is pursuing “a neutrality of economic benefit, New York Times reports. ” Switzerland’s arms industry makes badly needed ammunition for some of the weapons that Europeans have supplied to Ukraine, as well as some of the Leopard 2 main battle tanks they have promised. But there are strict rules on where those weapons can go: One law, now the subject of heated debate, bans the country from selling Swiss arms to any nation at war — or from selling them to be re-exported to be used in conflict. This has left Swiss arms makers unable to sell to Western customers that intend to use them in Ukraine, which the companies say could make it impossible to maintain relations with critical customers. European neighbors are pulling the Swiss in one directi...

In the wake of fallacious reports making arounds that the NNPP Candidate for House of Assembly, Ekiti West Constituency, Mr. Makanjuola Abdulwasiu Aderounmu is not on ballot, the Media Team has however rebuffed the claim, baring that such mischievous rumor is too cheap to stand, and should be considered as politicking by the peddlers. In a statement issued by the Director of Media and Publicity Ajetomobi Temitope Olakayode read, "This is to inform the general public to disregard the rumor from the mischievous nitwits stating that our Principal, Makanjuola Abdulwasiu Aderounmu is not on ballot. This is a lie from the pit of hell." The NNPP Candidate for Ekiti West Constituency is not only NNPP's Candidate but the people's choice come 18th of March, 2023. We however appeal to the agent of destructions to see politicking beyond petty lies, character defamation and derogatory affair as destructive critics don't stand to gain anything other than self mutilatio...

Abioye DAMILOLA, my beloved blood brother prompts me to share the uniqueness of bond that holds us together on his special day. The most amazing past I had with my immediate blood brother is that, "while growing up, we never raised hands to fight one another." I kept it to myself till I broke my silence today and I hope you also would examine if any day has ever occurred under sun, so that I may rebuff this remarkable statement. Some years agone, you were inflicted with domestic injury, had it been such spasmodic occurred by external person, I would have gone extra mile to fight until dead end. From time immemorial, I understand how we were strong together to make sure we were not broken, telling the other side of story how we failed together, but we kept moving. Today, I promise you and all my brothers like soldiers, " A future that's bright, love of brotherhoods, God will shield everyone of you, and take you to the house of never, I care so much, I love y...

The Pentagon is blocking the Biden administration from sharing with the International Criminal Court in The Hague evidence gathered by U.S. intelligence agencies about Russian atrocities in Ukraine, according to current and former officials briefed on the matter. U.S. military leaders oppose such help because they fear setting a precedent that might help pave the way for the court to prosecute Americans. The rest of the administration favors giving the evidence to the court, the officials said. President Biden has yet to resolve the impasse, they added. The evidence is said to include details relevant to an investigation that the chief prosecutor of the court, Karim Khan, began after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The information reportedly includes material about decisions by Russian officials to deliberately target civilian infrastructure and to abduct thousands of Ukrainian children from occupied territory. The I.C.C. was created two decades ago as a standing venue to investiga...

The publisher of Oriontimes has rejoiced with comrade Ismael Adedokun p. k.a Comrade Tangible on his auspicious birthday occasion. Comrade Tangible is a "Friend of Orion, "a fighter, "goal getter who have stood test of time, who may never get knocked down while the world breaks many, As you face the future, We supplicate that you unlock the goodness of Almighty Allah. We want you to consider yourself as one of the best, reliable persons whose worth is more than gold. On this celebration day, "We wish you prosperous life, greater things your heart desires, age in wisdom, sound health, long life and fulfilment of purpose, Congratulations from us.

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The war in Ukraine has transformed Europe more profoundly than any event since the end of the Cold War in 1989. A peace mentality, most acute in Germany, has given way to a dawning awareness that military power is needed in the pursuit of security and strategic objectives. The E.U. was built on the idea that economic exchanges, trade and interdependence were the best guarantees against war. “Many of us had started to take peace for granted,” Sauli Niinisto, Finland’s president, said this month. Now, a continent on autopilot has been galvanized into an immense effort to save liberty in Ukraine, a freedom widely seen as synonymous with its own. As a long war looms, the E.U. will grapple with how to reinforce its militaries; how to navigate tensions between frontline states intent on Russia’s complete defeat and those, like France and Germany, that are inclined toward compromise. The E.U. will also need to navigate an American election next year that will feed anxieties over whether Wa...

As kingdom of heaven was linked to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom, so I came out of cocoon after more than a year i decided and kept a message with me, but I remembered a quote by Michelangelo who remarked that, "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." My spirit was disturbing me not to keep what I saw in my dream as God was talking to America. I recognize Democrat as a party that elected the incumbent president Joe Biden, and I know of Republican where the former president Donald Trump is prepping to faces the like of Florida governor, Ron DeSantis and likewise Mike Pence in the GOP Primary. What really surprised me was that I saw multitude chanting, "I'm a socialist, I'm a democratic, I'm a republican, "give me new Nigeria" , then a thought came to my mind that heaven was requesting something from America which has a lwot to do about Nigeria." Righteousness exalts a natio...

Poland has long been one of the world’s most ethnically homogeneous countries, with a deep-seated mistrust of outsiders and a complicated history with Ukraine. Yet since Russia invaded Ukraine, Poland has provided an open-armed response to those fleeing the war. It is now sheltering around two million Ukrainians. Rebuilt from ruins after 1945, Poland has accommodated far more Ukrainian refugees than any other country. Germany is next, with about a million. Many of the refugees now have jobs with Polish companies, and their children are in Polish schools. All have access to Polish health care and other services. For now, many say they eventually hope to return to Ukraine. Poland’s response to the refugee situation in Ukraine has won plaudits from the E.U. and has given its right-wing government more clout, offsetting some earlier difficulties around what Brussels views as moves to undermine the independence of the Polish judiciary and discriminate against L.G.B.T.Q. people. Atte...

President Biden made a sudden appearance yesterday in Kyiv’s presidential palace. The visit was intended to be a morale booster for shellshocked Ukrainians and a direct challenge to Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, whose troops invaded Ukraine a year ago this week. “One year later, Kyiv stands,” Biden said. “And Ukraine stands. Democracy stands.” The war in Ukraine is about power and the principle of territorial sovereignty, and about whether the Western-designed global order that Americans thought would prevail for decades will survive new challenges from Moscow and Beijing. But it is increasingly a contest between Putin and Biden, who have been circling each other for years. Today, the men are set to deliver separate speeches, each vowing to stick with the war. Putin will most likely make the case anew that he is not only saving Ukraine from “Nazism” but saving Russia from being overrun by NATO. And Biden is expected to frame the war as a long battle between democracy an...