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The US considers the request for an ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu shameful

The United States called it “intolerable” and “shameful” on Monday that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has requested that an arrest warrant be issued by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, along with the leaders of Hamas for war crimes.
“The ICC prosecutor’s request for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is scandalous,” U.S. President Joe Biden said in a statement released by the White House.
The president stressed that regardless of what the prosecutor says “there is no possible comparison between Israel and Hamas” and promised that the United States will always support the Jewish State in the face of “threats to its security.”
The ICC Attorney General, Karim Khan, on Monday requested arrest warrants against Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, and his political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
The United States has not ratified the Rome Statute with which the ICC was constituted and has traditionally opposed several investigations by this body.
“We reject the equivalence that the prosecutor makes between Israel and Hamas. It’s embarrassing,” said U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, in another statement.
The head of American diplomacy claimed that “Hamas is a brutal terrorist organization” that on October 7 “carried out the worst massacre since the Holocaust and that still holds dozens of people hostage.”
Likewise, Blinken opined that the ICC “has no jurisdiction over this matter” and denounced that there are “deeply worrying procedural issues” in the investigation.
According to the Secretary of State, the Israeli Government “was willing to cooperate” despite the fact that Israel is not part of the court and even a visit by the ICC Attorney General to the Jewish State was planned next week.
However, Blinken continued, a team of the prosecutor canceled by surprise a trip to Israel scheduled for Monday to prepare for the prosecutor’s visit at the same time that Khan appeared on television to announce the charges.
“These and other circumstances cast doubt on the legitimacy and credibility of this investigation,” he said.
In addition, for the head of US diplomacy, the decision of the ICC prosecutor “could endanger” the negotiations of an agreement between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the kidnapped.
The Israeli authorities, as well as the leaders of the Palestinian Islamist group, were outraged on Monday by Karim Khan’s request.
International
Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.
Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.
Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.
However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.
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Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.
“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.
The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.
His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”
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Miyazaki’s style goes viral with AI but at what cost?

This week, you may have noticed that everything—from historical photos and classic movie scenes to internet memes and recent political moments—has been reimagined on social media as Studio Ghibli-style portraits. The trend quickly went viral thanks to ChatGPT and the latest update of OpenAI’s chatbot, released on Tuesday, March 25.
The newest addition to GPT-4o has allowed users to replicate the distinctive artistic style of the legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away). “Today is a great day on the internet,” one user declared while sharing popular memes in Ghibli format.
While the trend has captivated users worldwide, it has also highlighted ethical concerns about AI tools trained on copyrighted creative works—and what this means for the livelihoods of human artists.
Not that this concerns OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which has actively encouraged the “Ghiblification”experiments. Its CEO, Sam Altman, even changed his profile picture on the social media platform X to a Ghibli-style portrait.
Miyazaki, now 84 years old, is known for his hand-drawn animation approach and whimsical storytelling. He has long expressed skepticism about AI’s role in animation. His past remarks on AI-generated animation have resurfaced and gone viral again, particularly when he once said he was “utterly disgusted” by an AI demonstration.
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