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By Jessie Yeung and Shawn Deng, CNN A heat wave is sweeping through China, with residents resorting to air raid shelters and public fountains to stay cool, as 84 cities across the country on Wednesday issued their highest-level red alert warnings. A red alert means temperatures are expected to reach over 40 degrees Celsius (104

CNN By Rhea Mogul and Jessie Yeung, CNN Family and close friends attended the funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Tuesday, with crowds gathering on the streets of the capital to pay their last respects, four days after the shock of his assassination reverberated across the world. The private funeral

By Rhea Mogul and Jessie Yeung, CNN Family and close friends attended the funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Tuesday, with crowds gathering on the streets of the capital to pay their last respects, four days after the shock of his assassination reverberated across the world. The private funeral was

By Jessie Yeung, Emiko Jozuka and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN The Unification Church said Monday it was puzzled by reports of alleged resentment held against the group by the man suspected of assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “There is a big distance between having resentment toward our association and killing former Prime Minister Abe,”

CNN, TV ASAHI, POOL, GETTY IMAGES, AVN, NHK, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN BROADCASTING (IRIB) By Nectar Gan and Emiko Jozuka, CNN When Akie Matsuzaki married Shinzo Abe, then a rising political aide, in 1987, she followed a path well trodden by Japanese wives and gave up her job at the country’s largest advertising agency. But

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By Nectar Gan and Emiko Jozuka, CNN When Akie Matsuzaki married Shinzo Abe, then a rising political aide, in 1987, she followed a path well trodden by Japanese wives and gave up her job at the country’s largest advertising agency. But over more than three decades of marriage — including nine years as Japan’s first

CNN By Jessie Yeung and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Japan’s ruling coalition swept to victory on Sunday in an upper house election that took on heightened significance following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe, 67, was shot on Friday in the city of Nara while delivering a speech in support of candidates from

By Jessie Yeung and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Japan’s ruling coalition swept to victory on Sunday in an upper house election that took on heightened significance following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe, 67, was shot on Friday in the city of Nara while delivering a speech in support of candidates from his

CNN By Heather Chen, CNN Angry protesters who stormed the official residences of Sri Lanka‘s President have forced him to flee the country, but his sudden departure has plunged the South Asian state deeper into crisis. Demonstrators furious about economic mismanagement and a spiraling financial crisis have demanded that both President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime

By Rhea Mogul, Amy Woodyatt, Nectar Gan, Rukshana Rizwie and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Sri Lanka woke on Sunday to an uncertain future, with both its President and Prime Minister set to step down after thousands of protesters stormed their homes in fury over the nation’s crippling economic crisis. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to resign

By Kathleen Magramo, Emiko Jozuka, and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN Japanese voters headed to the polling stations on Sunday for an election billed as a defense of democracy, just two days after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated while on the campaign trail. Abe was shot in broad daylight on Friday in the central city

By Iqbal Athas, Rhea Mogul and Amy Woodyatt, CNN Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday said he was willing to resign and make way for an all-party government to take over, shortly after protesters reportedly breached his official residence in Colombo during demonstrations over the country’s worsening economic crisis. “To ensure the continuation

By Helen Regan, Emiko Jozuka and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN Police in Japan have launched a murder investigation into the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe — but little is known about the suspect who was arrested at the scene of the fatal shooting on Friday. Abe, 67, was pronounced dead by doctors at

By Helen Regan, Emiko Jozuka and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN The body of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived back at his home in Tokyo on Saturday, a day after he was assassinated in a daylight shooting, sending a nation unaccustomed to gun violence into a state of shock and anger. His widow, Akie Abe,

CNN By Helen Regan, Emiko Jozuka and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN Police in Japan have launched a murder investigation into the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe — but little is known about the suspect who was arrested at the scene of the fatal shooting on Friday. Abe, 67, was pronounced dead by doctors

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