Netanyahu: Iran tried to kill my son

 

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Published 22.34

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, here in a picture from August 17. Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP/TT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran has tried to assassinate one of his sons. However, he does not give details about the alleged assassination attempt.

- Iran targeted one of my sons. Iran tried to kill one of my sons, Netanyahu said in an interview with the Israeli television channel Nu 14.

The claim came during a conversation about the Shin Bet intelligence service denying former commander Gadi Eisenkot's bodyguards.

Eisenkot is seen as one of the main contenders for prime minister in this fall's elections and Netanyahu has given his support to Eisenkot being given protection – without it, Iran will succeed, he says.

It is unclear which of Netanyahu's two sons would have been Iran's target, but one of them has lived in the United States for periods since 2024, which has created debate about the high cost of providing him with protection. 

NATO aircraft spied on Russia from Norway

 

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Published 21.51

  

A fighter jet takes off from Ørlandet air base during the international military exercise Cold Response in March. Archive photo. Photo: Jan Langhaug/NTB

For the first time since the 1950s, a Norwegian air base has been used as a base for espionage against the Russian Kola Peninsula.

The long-standing practice was broken on Tuesday and Thursday last week when a British RC-135W spy plane took off from Ørlandet air base and then circled in international airspace off the Kola Peninsula, writes Aftenposten.

Norway has previously banned NATO aircraft from flying over Northern Norway during operations in the strategically important sea areas north of the Kola Peninsula and west of the Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya. The justification for this has been that Norway wants to avoid acting provocatively in an area where Russia has a heavy weapons arsenal.

Colombia's new president orders deportations

 

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Published 19.15

 

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella in connection with a statement about the massive earthquake earlier in August, which marked the president's first term in power and which temporarily put his focus on crime in the background. Photo: John Vizcaino/AP/TT

Colombia's new right-wing president Abelardo de la Espriella wants to see the arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants.

This is evident from a film recording from a government meeting on Sunday.

- I will not accept illegal migrants, regardless of where they come from, the president is heard saying in the video, where he mentions that a process for deportations will begin this week.

- The orders to the migration authorities are clear: First those who commit crimes, then those who do not have valid status and who will need to be deported.

An estimated three million Venezuelans are in Colombia after fleeing the economic and political crisis in their homeland.

Trump-friendly de la Espriella took office on August 7, after a narrow election victory over leftist candidate Iván Cepeda.

Turkey: Several mayors sentenced to prison

 

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Published 20.06

 

Demonstration in support of now sentenced ex-mayor Riza Akpolat when he was arrested last year. Archive photo. Photo: Emrah Gurel/AP/TT

A number of Turkish mayors, all of whom belong to opposition parties, have been sentenced to longer prison terms.

Riza Akpolat, mayor of the Besiktas district of Istanbul, has been sentenced to 23 years and 3 months in prison for, among other things, bribery and money laundering.

– I am innocent. There is no evidence, everything is based on witness statements from my detractors, he said after the verdict.

Akpolat, who was dismissed by the Interior Ministry when he was arrested last year, was one of at least five mayors who received prison sentences on Monday. What the convicted have in common is that they belong to Turkey's largest opposition party, the CHP. The other convicted received sentences of just over eight years at most.

All were involved in a huge legal case where around 200 people were accused of being members of a criminal network.

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