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Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states condemn Israeli military strikes on Iran Kyrgyzstan | politics |
Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states condemn Israeli military strikes on Iran AKIPRESS.COM - Member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) have condemned Israel's military strikes on Iranian territory. "Such aggressive...

TOP Will Convene Citizens’ Assemblies To End Political Gridlock
Sunday 15 June 2025. To break the cycle of political indecision and costly policy reversals, The Opportunities Party is launching The Citizens’ Voice. The party’s first 2026 Election policy calls for the use of Citizens’ Assemblies on pressing...

Thomas Coughlan: NZ Herald political editor on Prime Minister Chris Luxon's trip to China and Europe
The Prime Minister says his upcoming trip to China is about more than bolstering trade links. Chris Luxon will be meeting with President Xi Jinping and other key members of the Chinese Government while in Beijing next week. After meetings wrap up...

Minnesota shootings: Gov. Stitt, NGA Chair condemn political violence
The National Governors Association (NGA) issued a public statement Saturday condemning the politically motivated shootings that killed Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and wounded State Sen. John Hoffman and their spouses. >> Minnesota Rep....

Former state House speaker, husband killed in politically targeted shooting
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in a politically motivated assassination, and a second lawmaker and his wife were shot and wounded. Authorities were actively searching...

Carneiro says that constitutional revision “is not a political priority”
During a visit to the collaborative digital transformation lab (DTX) at the Azurém Campus of the University of Minho, in Guimarães, José Luís Carneiro called for the “sense of responsibility” from right-wing parties regarding the international...

Vance Boelter social media: Old LinkedIn post surfaces, ‘I think the election…’
Online biographies of the Minnesota man accused of assassinating a state lawmaker show that he runs a security company and has ties to the Middle East and Africa. One of Vance Luther Boelter's old LinkedIn posts, where he urged people to “please...

Authorities still searching for suspect in shooting of 2 Minnesota state lawmakers
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) — Hundreds of law officers fanned out across a Minneapolis suburb Saturday in pursuit of a man who authorities say posed as a police officer and fatally shot a Democratic state lawmaker in her home in what Gov. Tim Walz...

Will the United States sink into a cycle of politically motivated assassinations?
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp A Minnesota local elected official and her husband were killed, and another elected official was wounded Saturday morning in an “act of political violence,” announced Tim Walz, the governor of the northern US...

Uniting against divisive politics
Modern Britain is plagued by a sense of disempowerment and political exclusion—a feeling that is, somewhat ironically, shared between groups of people who otherwise feel divided from one another. This division has opened the door to a frightening...

Israel’s PM urgently calls military-political cabinet meeting
TEL AVIV, June 15. /TASS/. Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu has called the military-political cabinet for an urgent meeting, the Prime Minister’s office said. "The Prime Minister is holding the meeting of the military-political cabinet...

Arizona politicians react to alleged targeted attacks on Minnesota lawmakers
PHOENIX (AZFamily/AP) — Arizona leaders and politicians are speaking out against the political violence that took place in Minnesota on Saturday. A gunman impersonating a police officer targeted two Minnesota politians and their spouses, in...

Melissa Hortman Dies: Search On for Suspect Who Posed As Police Officer and Fatally Shot Democratic Lawmaker and Her Husband; Minnesota Guv Tim Walz Calls It a ’Politically Motivated Assassination
Brooklyn Park, June 14: Hundreds of law officers fanned out across a Minneapolis suburb Saturday in pursuit of a man who authorities say posed as a police officer and fatally shot a Democratic state lawmaker in her home in what Gov. Tim Walz...
Democrat ‘factions’ questioned following fatal shooting of Minnesota politician

New Orleans voters in rare conservation district election turned away in droves Saturday
Hundreds of New Orleans residents showed up to vote Saturday in the Crescent Soil and Water Conservation District election only to find all the available ballots had already been cast. The race, between the incumbent, urban farmer Erica “Sage”...
Olson: In Melissa Hortman, so soon after Kari Dziedzic, Minnesota politics loses another selfless leader
A lesser politician and human being would have sought to undermine the new speaker. Hortman did no such thing. She went to work for her caucus and built on the strong relationship she and Demuth already had from the past two years.Another...

Defection: PDP, NNPP warn against politicising anti-corruption agencies
The Peoples Democratic Party and the New Nigeria Peoples Party have cautioned President Bola Tinubu’s administration against turning anti-corruption agencies into political tools to pressure opposition members into joining the All Progressives...

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate running for re-election
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - In a facebook post on Saturday afternoon, Paul Pate announced he is running for re-election as Iowa’s Secretary of State. Pate has served as the Cedar Rapids Mayor and state legislator in addition to being a business...

No Kings Day Protest In Essex Brings Out Best, Worst Of MD Politics
A counterprotester crashed an anti-Trump rally in Baltimore County. The argument on No Kings Day ended with a handshake and common ground. Posted Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 5:17 pm ET|Updated Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 5:41 pm ET ESSEX, MD — All was calm at...

Gunman on loose after killer in TERRIFYING Halloween mask launches political assassinations and friend reveals who he voted for
A Minnesota gunman is on the loose after terrifying images showed the alleged killer wearing a creepy Halloween-style mask before launching into a ‘politically motivated assassination.’ State Representative Melissa Hortman was shot along with...