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By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Friday’s shocking assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in one of the world’s safest countries stunned leaders and drew condemnation, with Iran calling it “terrorism” while European leaders slammed the “despicable” attack. Tributes poured in as governments expressed sorrow and solidarity with Japan

By MARI YAMAGUCHI, CHISATO TANAKA and FOSTER KLUG Associated Press NARA, Japan (AP) — 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 western Japan, hospital officials said. Abe, 67, was shot from behind

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will travel to Asia this month, her first trip to the Indo-Pacific since becoming head of the agency. Yellen will represent the U.S. at the Group of 20 finance minister meetings on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali. At the G-20 meetings and on

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — 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 control. Police say that Japan, with a population of 125 million, had just

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former British Treasury chief Rishi Sunak formally launched his campaign to replace departing Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday, leaping to the front of what is set to be a large pack of Conservative Party contenders — even as some party lawmakers pushed to

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Friday’s shocking assassination of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in one of the world’s safest country stunned the world and drew condemnation, with Iran calling it an “act of terrorism” and Spain slamming the “cowardly attack.” Abe, 67, was shot from behind in Nara in western Japan while giving

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s government on Friday declared an eight-day state of alert due to a heightened risk of wildfires, as the drought-stricken country prepares for a heat wave packing temperatures as high as 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit). The torrid weather brings with it “a significant worsening

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials say the country’s new president has tested positive for the coronavirus after taking an antigen test. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will have to go into isolation for about a week. His press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said Friday that the 54-year-old Marcos Jr. has a slight fever but “is otherwise OK.”

By MARI YAMAGUCHI, CHISATO TANAKA and FOSTER KLUG Associated Press NARA, Japan (AP) — 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 western Japan, according to NHK public television. Abe, 67, was shot

Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says Ghana has reported two possible cases of the Ebola-like Marburg virus disease, which if confirmed would mark the first-ever such infections in the West African country. WHO said the disease, a very infectious hemorrhagic fever in the same family as Ebola, is spread to people

By DANIELLA MATAR AP Sports Writer BELLINZONA, Switzerland (AP) — Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were acquitted on charges of defrauding FIFA by a Swiss criminal court on Friday, a rare positive outcome for the pair who were among soccer’s most powerful figures before being embroiled in corruption investigations. The case was centered around a

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES and VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Nightly protests in North Macedonia over the last week have left dozens of people injured. At the heart of the turmoil is the small Balkan country’s long-running quest to join the European Union. The most recent hurdle was a veto by EU

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Authorities say there were no gorings in the second San Fermín Festival bull run in the Spanish city of Pamplona. But the Red Cross said six people were taken to hospital with injuries. The run on Friday lasted three minutes and 10 seconds, and produced some hairy moments. Runners slipped or

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Deeply divided top diplomats from the world’s richest and largest developing nations struggled to find common ground over Russia’s war in Ukraine and its global impacts. Talks were knocked off balance by two unrelated and unexpected political developments far from the Indonesian resort of

By CARA ANNA and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — She had gone out to feed the cats when the shelling began. It was afternoon, a residential neighborhood, a time to get errands done. But there is nothing routine about life near the front line in Ukraine. Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city and

TOKYO (AP) — Born into a prominent political family, Shinzo Abe, who was fatally shot at a campaign event Friday in western Japan, had been the country’s longest-serving prime minister. While credited with bringing a degree of stability following a period of economic malaise and constant turnover among leaders, he angered neighbors South Korea and

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — World leaders expressed shock and anguish over Friday’s shooting of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a campaign speech, with Iran calling it an “act of terrorism,” as they prayed that Abe will pull through. Abe was shot in western Japan and airlifted to a hospital. Officials said he

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES and VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Nightly protests in North Macedonia over the last week have left dozens of people injured. At the heart of the turmoil is the small Balkan country’s long-running quest to join the European Union. The most recent hurdle was a veto by EU

ISLAMABAD (AP) — At least 10 people — including two children — have been killed by heavy and unseasonal flooding in Afghanistan’s eastern and northern provinces. A statement by the United Nations Friday said the rainfall and consequent flooding also wounded 11 people. The provinces suffering the heaviest casualties and damage were eastern Nangarhar, Nuristan

By AMR NABIL Associated Press MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the world raised their hands to heaven and offered prayers of repentance on the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia on Friday, an intense day of worship considered to be the climax of the