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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,”

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

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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

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,

By Helen Regan, Junko Ogura and Tara John, CNN Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died on Friday after being shot while giving a campaign speech on a street in central Japan. The assassination of the former world leader in broad daylight has shocked a nation not used to gun violence and prompted an outpouring

By Nectar Gan, CNN The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has shocked Japan, a country with one of the world’s lowest rates of gun crime due to its strict laws on gun ownership. Abe was shot dead on Friday in the city of Nara while delivering a campaign speech, Prime Minister Fumio

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