Shinzo Abe, a divisive archconservative who was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister and remained a powerful and influential politician after leaving office, has died after being shot during a ... ( read original story ...)
Japan ex-leader Shinzo Abe assassinated while giving speech
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation's most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in ... ( read original story ...)
Shinzo Abe: world leaders pay tribute after former Japan prime minister is shot and killed in city of Nara – latest updates
PM Fumio Kishida decries ‘heinous act’ after predecessor is shot while on campaign trail for Sunday’s upper house election ... ( read original story ...)
Fatal shooting of Japan’s Shinzo Abe stuns world leaders
World leaders have reacted in shock over the shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a campaign speech and prayed for his recovery ... ( read original story ...)
France’s Macron: Japan Has Lost a Great Prime Minister in Shinzo Abe
Japan has lost a great prime minister, French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday in a tribute to Shinzo Abe after the former Japanese premier's death in a shooting attack during an election campaign ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s longest-serving PM, Shinzo Abe leaves a long and complex political legacy
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died in a hospital on Friday just hours after he was shot while giving a campaign speech in the western city of Nara. He was 67. ( read original story ...)
Attack on former Japan PM stuns nation known for gun control
News that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had been shot in broad daylight has shocked not only Japan but the entire world, which has come to associate the relatively low-crime nation with strict gun ... ( read original story ...)
Shinzo Abe Dead After Former Japan PM Assassinated by Man With Homemade Gun
Tetsuya Yamagami, the 41-year-old suspected shooter, was arrested at around 11:32 a.m. and has been taken into custody on suspicion of attempted murder. ( read original story ...)
How bad is the crypto market crash? Take a look at Coinbase
Coinbase is a case study of what happens to a crypto firm when the price of bitcoin and tokens fall — but it may weather the downturn. ( read original story ...)
Embattled crypto lender Celsius is a ‘fraud’ and ‘Ponzi scheme,’ lawsuit alleges
Celsius artificially inflated the price of its own digital coin, failed to hedge risk and engaged in activities that amounted to fraud, a lawsuit alleges. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Nikkei ends flat after ex-PM Shinzo Abe shot
Japan's Nikkei index shed most of its early gains to end flat on Friday after Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election. The Nikkei index closed ... ( read original story ...)
New UK finance minister deletes tweet erroneously saying Japan’s Abe had died
Britain's new finance minister Nadhim Zahawi sent his condolences on Friday to Japan in the mistaken belief that former prime minister Shinzo Abe had died after being shot by an attacker, although Abe ... ( read original story ...)
Nadhim Zahawi deletes tweet mistakenly claiming Japan’s Shinzo Abe has died
The finance ministry said the new Chancellor of the Exchequer had made a mistake and was expressing his reaction to a horrific incident ... ( read original story ...)
UPDATE 1-New UK finance minister expresses shock over Abe death, after earlier tweet error
Zahawi had earlier deleted a tweet in which he expressed his shock at Abe's death, before any update had been given on his condition. Japan's longest-serving leader died on Friday after being shot ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo archbishop condemns political violence after former Japanese PM shot
After a gunman shot former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe during a campaign rally on Friday in western Japan, Archbishop Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo said, “violence kills democracy.” ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo registers 8,777 more COVID infections on July 8
The Japanese capital reported 8,777 coronavirus cases on July 8 after recording 8,529 the day before, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government annou ... ( read original story ...)