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Iran: Supreme Leader Calls for Legal Cases Against US, Israel

People ride past a banner with a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, June 28, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
People ride past a banner with a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, June 28, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
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Iran: Supreme Leader Calls for Legal Cases Against US, Israel

People ride past a banner with a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, June 28, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
People ride past a banner with a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, June 28, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has called on the judiciary to pursue domestic and international legal cases against the United States and Israel over deaths and damage caused by strikes on Iran.

In a message marking Judiciary Week, he said Sunday that the judiciary must follow up on “the crimes of international criminals, arrogant powers and global aggressors,” especially in 2025 and 2026.

Khamenei was referring to the 12-day war in 2025 and another one that began on Feb 28.

“What is certain is that the criminals must be seized by the collar and brought to justice for their criminal acts,” he said.

He added that physical and psychological damages “inflicted on each individual of the Iranian nation ... from child killings and war crimes in Minab and Lamerd to attacks on medical centers, is each a legal file that must be pursued in both domestic and international courts.”

He also called for judicial reforms, saying people should see results in faster case processing, stronger rulings, easier access to justice and tougher action against corruption.

Khamenei has not been seen in public since his appointment as supreme leader in March.

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Iran Cyberattacks on Israel Surged in 2026, Israeli Cyber Chief Says

Iran usually denies launching cyberattacks against other countries while announcing attacks it suffers (Archive - Reuters)
Iran usually denies launching cyberattacks against other countries while announcing attacks it suffers (Archive - Reuters)
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Iran Cyberattacks on Israel Surged in 2026, Israeli Cyber Chief Says

Iran usually denies launching cyberattacks against other countries while announcing attacks it suffers (Archive - Reuters)
Iran usually denies launching cyberattacks against other countries while announcing attacks it suffers (Archive - Reuters)

The number ‌of Iranian cyberattacks against Israel has shot up since the launch of the US-Israeli offensive against Iran this year, a senior Israeli security official was quoted as saying on Monday.

Yossi Karadi, Director General of Israel's National Cyber Directorate, told German newspaper Die Welt that in June 2025 during Israeli military ‌operations against ‌Iran, Israel's authorities registered around ‌1,600 ⁠hostile cyber incidents.

During ⁠the same month in 2026, the number had jumped to some 4,800 incidents, he told the paper.

"Some groups are very skilled," Karadi said, according to the German text of ⁠the interview. "We can handle ‌them, but we have ‌to take them seriously. Unlike in ‌the kinetic realm, there's no ceasefire in ‌cyberspace."

Karadi said the attacks were directed against systems used by Israel's critical infrastructure, central organizations, small to medium-sized companies and ‌the public, citing law practices and accounting firms as among the ⁠smaller ⁠ones hit.

"So far — and hopefully it stays that way — we've managed to fend off attacks on critical infrastructure," he said.

Companies that were easier to penetrate often ended up having their computer systems wiped, he said, without mentioning any names.

Iran typically denies carrying out hacking campaigns against other countries while reporting attacks on itself.

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British Man Held in Ecuador after Woman's Body Found in Suitcase

Police officials stand behind crime scene tape. — AFP/File
Police officials stand behind crime scene tape. — AFP/File
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British Man Held in Ecuador after Woman's Body Found in Suitcase

Police officials stand behind crime scene tape. — AFP/File
Police officials stand behind crime scene tape. — AFP/File

A British man has been arrested in Ecuador after the body of a woman was found inside a suitcase despite him telling The Sun newspaper that he was watching England game at the time.

Local authorities told the British news agency, PA Media, that Matthew Ashley Foster-Smith is alleged to have caused the death of 36-year-old Natalia Villalba in an apartment in the Chico neighborhood of Bogota, Colombia, on June 18.

But the 46-year-old from Bournemouth reportedly rang The Sun a day before his arrest and said: “I was watching England versus Croatia on a big screen in an Irish bar, so it wasn’t me.”

He added, “After the match I went into the shopping center, I mooched about, bought an ice cream, and came back later for the later games.”

England’s World Cup match took place on June 17.

The Sun reported that the suspect made a second call to its newsdesk on Friday, before his arrest, with a source telling the newspaper that he was located via the phone calls he had made. The source said there were fears the suspect was trying to buy a ticket to travel to Europe.

A post on the official X account of the Attorney General’s Office in Colombia said Foster-Smith is suspected of beating Villalba to death before placing her body in a suitcase, trying to conceal what happened and fleeing the scene.

Dorset Police are said to have been among the authorities that assisted with locating him before he was held at Quito International Airport in Ecuador.

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Father and Son Rescued after Four Days Buried Under Rubble of Venezuela's Earthquakes

Relief workers carry a survivor rescued from a building that collapsed in the earthquakes that struck La Guaira, Venezuela. (AFP) 
Relief workers carry a survivor rescued from a building that collapsed in the earthquakes that struck La Guaira, Venezuela. (AFP) 
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Father and Son Rescued after Four Days Buried Under Rubble of Venezuela's Earthquakes

Relief workers carry a survivor rescued from a building that collapsed in the earthquakes that struck La Guaira, Venezuela. (AFP) 
Relief workers carry a survivor rescued from a building that collapsed in the earthquakes that struck La Guaira, Venezuela. (AFP) 

A father and his son were pulled out alive from the rubble of a collapsed building on Sunday, four days after the devastating earthquakes that struck Venezuela.

It was a ‌scene that gave hope to the French and US rescue workers active in the area as they race against the clock to find more survivors.

Rescue workers carried the pair, visibly weakened and both wearing masks, on improvised fabric stretchers through debris-strewn streets to a waiting ambulance, as a crowd gathered around the emergency vehicles ⁠in La Guaira.

The coastal state was hardest hit by the earthquakes on Wednesday that left at least 1,450 dead and thousands missing.

Their rescue came after 12 hours of painstaking efforts by teams that combed through the ruins using specialized search cameras, carefully working through unstable rubble to reach the trapped victims.

“They are extremely weak, as any patient trapped under rubble for four days would be, so we are doing everything possible to rehydrate them and administer various medications during the extraction process, which ‌is ⁠moving very slowly,” said a member of the French Civil Security.

Before extracting the family members, rescuers prepared intravenous drips and cleared debris. Others remained beside the rubble searching for signs of life and communicating with their colleagues among ⁠the remains.

At least 33 people were rescued over the weekend, though tens of thousands remain missing, heightening fears that time is running out to find survivors.

According to ⁠specialists, after 72 hours following an earthquake, the odds of finding victims alive beneath the rubble drop dramatically.