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Get you up to speed: Trump tells Netanyahu ‘you’d be in prison if it weren’t for me’ | News World
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu had a tense phone call in which Trump threatened to resume airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, stating, “You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me.” Following this call, Israel resumed drone strikes on southern Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 11 individuals, including two children.
Negotiations for a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon resumed in Washington, with discussions commencing on Tuesday; however, no formal diplomatic relations exist between the two nations. The ongoing hostilities have resulted in over 3,400 fatalities in Lebanon and displaced more than one million people since fighting intensified after US and Israeli actions against Iran in February.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz stated that Netanyahu had previously refrained from attacking Beirut to respect ongoing negotiations between the US and Iran, but indicated that attacks would resume if Hezbollah continued targeting Northern Israel. Concurrently, negotiations in Washington have commenced, with Lebanese negotiators advocating for a full ceasefire to prevent future attacks amid rising casualties and displacement in Lebanon.
What remains unclear — The impact of the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants on Netanyahu’s political future and Israel’s military strategy is not yet known.
Trump tells Netanyahu he would be in prison without his support in tense call
The two allies exchanged fiery remarks in the phone call, reported by Axios (Picture: AP)
Donald Trump cursed and told Benjamin Netanyahu he would be in ‘prison’ if it were not for him in a tense call between the two leaders.
Trump reportedly told the Israeli Prime Minister: ‘What the f*** are you doing?’ as he threatened to resume airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs.
‘You’re f***ing crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this,’ the US president said, according to Axios.
In May 2024, the International Criminal Court announced it would seek arrest warrants for the most prominent Israeli and Hamas leaders for crimes against humanity. Netanyahu was included in this.
Israel resumed drone strikes on southern Lebanon after the call, killing 11 people including two children and their father, even as Hezbollah agreed to dial back fighting.
Hezbollah did not carry out any attacks on Israel after Trump’s announcement that fighting would decrease.
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Israeli strikes in Lebanon have displaced thousands (Picture: AP)
The ongoing hostilities – despite a nominal ceasefire that began in April – are causing further displacement among Lebanon’s conflict-weary population.
They are also a significant sticking point in negotiations to extend a ceasefire in the US-Israeli war in Iran, as the Islamic Republic wants any such deal to end fighting in Lebanon, too.
Two Iranian news agencies reported on Tuesday that the country cut off communication with mediators facilitating the ceasefire talks.
Another round of talks between Israel and Lebanon began on Tuesday in Washington, where Lebanese negotiators are set to seek a full ceasefire that will prevent future attacks.
The talks began in April and were the first in more than three decades between the countries, which have no formal diplomatic relations. Hezbollah has rejected direct talks, counting on pressure from Iran.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu (Picture: Reuters)
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that Israel previously refrained from attacking Beirut out of deference to negotiations between the US and Iran.
But he said Netanyahu informed Trump in the phone call on Monday that Israel would attack Beirut’s southern suburbs if Hezbollah continues targeting northern Israel.
The fighting presents a major obstacle to the emerging deal to extend the ceasefire in the Iran war that erupted after the United States and Israel struck Iran on February 28.
Tehran wants any agreement to include a complete ceasefire in Lebanon.
The latest round of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has killed 3,433 people in Lebanon and displaced more than one million people.
Trump and Netanyahu have been butting heads over the continued fighting. Last month, the pair spoke on the phone in what was described as a ‘dramatic and lengthy’ call about the war in Iran.
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October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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