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Ex-chef pleads guilty to aiding suicides

Iran: Trump betraying diplomacy

DUBAI: Mohsen Rezaei, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, said yesterday US President Donald Trump was “betraying diplomacy for the third time” by continuing a naval blockade of Iran and making excessive demands. US sources told AFP a deal was waiting for Trump’s sign-off but the president had made no decision after a two-hour meeting in the White House Situation Room on Friday. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said in Singapore the US could restart the war if it wanted. “Our ability to recommence if necessary is (that) we are more than capable, our stockpiles are more than suited for that because of how we balance exquisite and more plentiful munitions,” he said. US Central Comand posted on X that American forces “remain vigilant across the region”. The efforts to strike a deal mediated by Pakistan, were thrown into question this week by US strikes on the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. Nevertheless diplomacy continued including in a parallel process to stop fighting in Lebanon, which Iran has insisted be included in any formal end to the war and where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israeli forces had advanced further even as military delegations from both nations met at the Pentagon. Trump’s priorities in any deal included Iran agreeing to never developing nuclear weapons and the re-opening of the blockaded Strait of Hormuz maritime route. – Reuters/AFP Israel violating truce, says Hamas GAZA CITY: Hamas accused Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu of a “blatant violation” of the October 2025 ceasefire after he ordered the army to seize more territory in the Gaza Strip. “In violation of all agreements Netanyahu announced expanding control over 70% of the Gaza Strip, while the killing and starvation continue,” said Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim. Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem condemned the “complete silence” of the Board of Peace and its high representative for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov. “Failing to condemn Israel’s expansionist policies and forced displacement plans raises serious questions about the extent of the sponsoring parties’ commitment to obliging Israel to adhere to its obligations” under the ceasefire deal, Qassem said in a separate statement. On Thursday, Netanyahu had announced his intentions to have the military expand its control of Gaza from 60% to 70%. – AFP

Accused admits selling poison

charged him with 14 counts of murder and 14 counts of aiding suicide. Prosecutors on Friday told the court in Newmarket, north of Toronto, that they no longer believed they could secure murder convictions. Law then stood in a semi enclosed area reserved for defendants, flanked by his three lawyers, and said “I plead guilty” to aiding 14 suicides in Canada. Jeshennia Bedoya-Lopez, who died in 2022 aged 18, was one of Law’s victims. Her father, Leonardo Bedoya, told reporters outside the court that he found her dead in her bedroom. “She was my only daughter, my light, my life,” he said. Three years after Law’s arrest, he called Friday’s outcome “a disgrace”. Despite pleading to a lesser offence, experts say Law could

entered, prosecutors devoted several hours to reading an “agreed statement of facts”, which detailed how Law shipped material for suicide across Canada and abroad, often for about US$80 (RM317). Law proactively looked for customers, the statement of facts said. He would appear on a suicide discussion forum under the pseudonym “Greenberg”. When users would mention the meat preservative sodium nitrite as an option for suicide, Law would direct them to one of his sites where the powder was available in lethal concentrations. Dalhousie University law professor Robert Currie told AFP that Law’s prosecutors were handcuffed by the fact that, under Canadian law, it’s not clear if the same conduct can amount to both aiding suicide and murder. – AFP

NEWMARKET: The Canadian man who sold poison to distressed people worldwide pleaded guilty on Friday to 14 counts of aiding suicide but avoided a murder trial, an outcome one victim’s father branded “a disgrace”. Kenneth Law, a 60-year-old former chef, ran online forums that offered people advice on how to end their lives and made fatal substances available for purchase. The details of Law’s operation have caused outrage since his arrest in 2023. The 41 countries where Law sent poison included Australia, China, France and Brazil. He sold 330 packages to people in the United Kingdom. Canadian prosecutors had governor on Friday ordered state police to assume control outside a migrant detention centre in Newark that has become a weeklong flashpoint for clashes between protesters and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Governor Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, said she was acting to quell escalating tensions and episodes of violence outside Delaney Hall, the 1,000-bed jail operated by the private company Geo Group on behalf of ICE. Sherrill, who has repeatedly called for the closure of Delaney Hall, said the aim was to ensure both freedom of assembly and public safety. “I will not give ICE the pretext to expand operations in our state,” Sherrill told a press conference, joined by state Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and acting state police Superintendent Jeanne Hengemuhle. Other US cities have

still receive a sentence of 10-20 years imprisonment. Sentencing will be Bedoya listening to a song honouring his daughter Jeshennia outside the court. – REUTERSPIC

determined at a hearing in September, when the court will hear victim impact statements. After the guilty pleas were Police take control outside ICE detention centre NEW YORK: New Jersey’s

A person dressed as a character from The Handmaid’s Tale holds a sign outside Delaney Hall detention centre in Newark. – REUTERSPIC

ICE protesters would be kept apart in separate zones. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the moves were a “win for law and order” and thanked the governor for “allowing state police to cooperate with us”. – Reuters

experienced mass deployments of ICE agents, with President Donald Trump claiming that federal immigration officers Cuban, US military officers meet at Guantanamo Bay State police moved in on Friday to set up “protected protest zones” beyond the gates to give demonstrators safe places to gather, and have established vehicle checkpoints to control traffic flow, said state police Lieutenant Colonel David Sierotowicz. “ICE agents and their partners have agreed to remove themselves from the immediate area,” he said. Officials said that anti- and pro needed reinforcements to safely do their jobs.

and Washington have continued to worsen since January, when the United States imposed a de facto oil blockade on the island by kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Without Caracas as a lifeline, Cuba has struggled to keep electricity on, or food and medicine in stock. – AFP

Revolutionary Armed Forces said “both delegations consider the meeting to have been positive” and they agreed “to maintain communication between the two military commands”. The uniformed men met at the US base at the southeastern tip of Cuba. Relations between Havana

exchange on operational security matters”, US Southern Command said in a statement. “Donovan also led a perimeter security assessment of the base and discussed force protection, safety of service members and their families and operational readiness with base officials.” Cuba’s Ministry of

WASHINGTON: Senior US and Cuban military officers met on Friday at Guantanamo Bay as relations between the two countries deteriorate over President Donald Trump’s threatened takeover. US General Francis Donovan met Cuban General Roberto Legra Sotolongo “for a brief