Politics

Every elected official has a duty to uphold and defend the Constitution

Jagland was formally accused a day after Council of Europe said ministers voted to waive diplomatic immunity

Questions included What is Ministry of Foreign Affairs doing to investigate ties to Russia of Norwegian social leaders

Jagland's attorney said client was cooperating with authorities

Oversight committee gave government until Feb 24 to respond to questions

Fallout from Epstein files release has occurred worldwide Norway has been hard hit

Other Norwegians are facing new scrutiny including Crown Princess Mette-Marit Borge Brende and Mona Juul

Prime Minister Store supports independent inquiry and will testify if asked

Thorbjorn Jagland was charged with gross corruption in connection with ties to Jeffrey Epstein

Norwegian police said this on Thursday

Pal Lonseth told NRK that several of Jagland's properties were searched on Thursday

He suggested U.S. authorities seized 1200 pounds of drugs smuggled on drones across the border over that period

Three drones dropped explosives on a prosecutor’s office in Tijuana Mexico cartels used drones to attack Mexican security forces in Río Bravo and Mexican officials confiscated 18 drones in Reynosa in October last year

Analysts say the answer is likely in between

Trump administration officials said closure of El Paso airspace was because of a drone flown by a Mexican cartel

Steven Willoughby testified U.S. officials detected 60000 drone flights within 500 meters of the U.S.-Mexico border in the second half of 2024

U.S. officials arrested an American man using a drone to transport 12 packages of methamphetamine from Mexico to San Diego in 2017

Mexican officials are less certain

He cited an imaginary invasion as a reason even though border crossings are at their lowest point in U.S. history

A simpler yardstick for measuring democratic collapse comes from Steven Levitsky Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt