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A formal signing ceremony for a deal between the United States and Iran will take place on Friday at the Bürgenstock resort near Luzern, Switzerland. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi confirmed that the two-month US naval blockade on Iranian ports has been lifted ahead of this event.
Brokered in Pakistan, Swiss officials confirmed that the signing ceremony for the US-Iran deal is scheduled for Friday at the Bürgenstock resort near Luzern. Following the planned agreement, negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme and sanctions relief are expected to commence within a 60-day timeframe.
Switzerland’s foreign ministry confirmed that a signing ceremony for the US-Iran deal will occur at the Bürgenstock resort on Friday, with close cooperation from mediators in the region. Following the signing, Iranian officials indicated that talks on the nuclear programme and further sanctions relief will commence in a 60-day window to reach a final agreement.
What remains unclear — The specific details of the US-Iran deal, including any potential reconstruction fund, have not been disclosed.
US and Iran set to formalise peace deal on Friday in Geneva, says Switzerland and issues a warning to Israel, stop destroying Lebanon and killing innocent civilians.
At a G7 meeting in France, the US president has also made unusually critical comments about Israel’s military offensive in Lebanon.
The President of the United States Donald Trump has rebuked Israel over its military offensive in Lebanon in unusually critical comments during his visit to a G7 summit in France.
Israel is out of control
Trump said on Tuesday that he had a “great relationship” with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but added the Israeli leader “has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon”.
Trump told reporters “You don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody because there’s a lot of people in those apartment houses – and they’re not all Hezbollah,” he said.
“I suggested to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah because to be honest with you, I think they’d do a better job of doing it.”
This comes the day after Ben Gvir and other Israeli leaders issues a warning to the USA; ‘telling them we don’t need the USA, and we (Israel) needs to continue on with the Greater Israel project without the US.’ In defiance of the United States, who has made great sacrifices to the US.
Israelis tried to destroy peace plan
After the peace deal was agreed, which included the Israelis, the Israelis bombed an apartment block in Lebanon killing civilians.
Israel has tried to derail peace negotiations between the US and Iran. Pakistan intelligence foiled a plot to kill Iranian negotiators, which even went as far as carrying out an strike in Pakistan. Trump was forced to intervene and call off the Israelis.
Pakistani intelligence was also forced to foil a second plot to kill the Pakistani ambassador in Iran, who was fundamental to the peace talks. Pakistani army issued a direct warning to Israel, if Israel attacked any of its Ambassador’s or military personnel, Pakistan would respond in Israel.
Israel will not leave Lebanon and Syria
Israel’s occupation of territory in Lebanon and Syria will continue, prime minister insists, despite US deal with Iran.
Netanyahu told a press conference on Monday that Israel’s forces will remain in Lebanon, where it occupies around 570sq km (220sq miles) of territory, which is the size of the Isle of Man. Israel’s conflict with the Lebanon has killed more than 3,000 civilian people and displaced over million.
Israelis wont abide by the peace plan and Israeli PM Netanyahu, which is fighting for his political survival, said that Israel would continue to target “Iran’s terror arms” and “will need to continue to stand guard” against Iran.
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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