Iran does not want conflict with Israel to expand but will defend itself, foreign minister says

DUBAI: Iran does not want its conflict with Israel to expand to neighbouring countries unless the situation is forced, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday, adding its response had been based on self-defence. Araqchi said Tehran had been responding to foreign aggression, and that if this aggression stopped, Iranian reactions would also cease. The…

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Minnesota manhunt underway for suspect in deadly shooting of Democratic state lawmakers

MINNEAPOLIS: Minnesota Police and the FBI kept up a massive manhunt on Saturday evening for a gunman posing as a police officer who killed a senior Democratic state assemblywoman and her husband in what Governor Tim Walz called a “politically motivated assassination.” The suspect, identified as 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter, also allegedly shot and wounded…

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Vance Luther Boelter sought in fatal shooting of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman

A manhunt is underway for a 57-year-old suspect in the early Saturday shootings that killed former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in what officials believe to be a “politically motivated assassination” of the Democrat. In a separate attack by the same suspect, Minnesota Democratic state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot in their…

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