Officers say the suspect used a handmade gun to shoot dead Japan's former PM, as world leaders pay tribute to a "towering statesman".
Officers say the suspect used a handmade gun to shoot dead Japan's former PM, as world leaders pay tribute to a "towering statesman".
A man has admitted to shooting the former PM during a campaign event in the city of Nara, police say.
Councillor Alexei Gorinov gets reportedly the first jail term under a law criminalising dissent.
Ukrainian volunteers are taking part in a largely unseen battle to defend their territory with drones.
The order comes amid pressure on the US president to take more action to safeguard abortion access.
Mohammed Zubair had spotlighted former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma's comments on the Prophet Muhammad.
Ex-FBI heads James Comey and Andrew McCabe were subjected to rigorous checks during Trump's presidency.
Officers say the suspect used a handmade gun to shoot dead Japan's former PM, as world leaders pay tribute to a "towering statesman".
A man has admitted to shooting the former PM during a campaign event in the city of Nara, police say.
Councillor Alexei Gorinov gets reportedly the first jail term under a law criminalising dissent.
Ukrainian volunteers are taking part in a largely unseen battle to defend their territory with drones.
The order comes amid pressure on the US president to take more action to safeguard abortion access.
Mohammed Zubair had spotlighted former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma's comments on the Prophet Muhammad.
Ex-FBI heads James Comey and Andrew McCabe were subjected to rigorous checks during Trump's presidency.
A man has admitted to shooting the former PM during a campaign event in the city of Nara, police say.
Councillor Alexei Gorinov gets reportedly the first jail term under a law criminalising dissent.
Ukrainian volunteers are taking part in a largely unseen battle to defend their territory with drones.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he is "deeply saddened".
"The world has lost a great man of vision, and Canada has lost a close friend.
"My thoughts are with his wife, Akie, and the people of Japan as they mourn this loss," he said.
Disagreements are being reported among the family of former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, who has died in Spain aged 79.
According to Spanish news agency Efe, it began when the former leader was admitted to a clinic in Barcelona last month.
Part of the family suspects he may have been the victim of a conspiracy to try to kill him and prevent him from giving his support to the opposition in elections next month, it reports.
One of his daughters, Tchizé dos Santos, has asked the clinic where he died, to keep his body in Spain for a full autopsy rather than it being returned directly to Angola, the Reuters news agency quotes her lawyer Carmen Varela as saying.
The clinic declined to comment, it reports.
Angolan President João Lourenço has declared five days of national mourning, describing his predecessor as a "unique figure of the Angolan homeland, to which he dedicated himself from a very early age".
When Dos Santos stood down in 2017, Mr Lourenço moved to investigate the former leader's family over allegations of corruption.
Shinzo Abe's first stint as prime minister was brief - for a little over a year starting in 2006 - and controversial. But he made a surprising political comeback in 2012, staying in power until 2020 when he resigned for health reasons.
Japan was in a recession when he began his second term and his economic policy was credited with helping return growth to a faltering economy.
He oversaw Japan's recovery from a massive earthquake and tsunami in Tohoku in 2011, which killed nearly 20,000 people and led to a meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear reactors.
Abe also had his unexpected moments, such as popping up dressed as Super Mario at the Rio Olympics closing ceremony in 2016 ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Games.
Just days after stepping down as PM, he visited a controversial war memorial. The Yasukuni Shrine honours Japan's war dead, but also convicted war criminals. Visits by Japan's leaders to it had previously been seen as showing a lack of remorse for its militaristic past.
You can read more about his legacy in Japan and in countries across the globe here.
More words describing Shinzo Abe as a towering politician on the global stage - this time from former US President Donald Trump.
"He was a unifier like no other, but above all, he was a man who loved and cherished his magnificent country, Japan.
"Shinzo Abe will be greatly missed."
Trump added that the suspect "will hopefully be dealt with swiftly and harshly".
In February 2017, Trump welcomed Abe to the White House and then to his resort in Florida where the pair played a round of golf.
The former Japanese prime minister even fell into a bunker while Trump carried on golfing.
Nine months later, Trump travelled to Japan and then again in May 2019, becoming the first world leader to meet the newly-enthroned Emperor Naruhito.
The incident has been a huge shock for the people of Japan. Gun violence is rare, but questions are now being asked about the level of security in place for politicians touring the country.
A Tokyo-based journalist, Paul Nadeau, has been speaking to the BBC about what people expect from a typical campaign event in Japan.
"The thing that people should realise about Japanese campaigns is that they're much more immediate relationships between the public and the politician.
"The rallies will fill up a town square or the plaza in front of a railway station.
"You can shake hands with the prime minister, you can share some grapes, you can compliment his hair. It's just about all go and as crowded as it is, as many people as there are, there's never a sense of danger or a sense of threat or insecurity.
"No one really ever gets all that worked up and so the security detail that's attached to the prime minister, whoever it is, reflects that."
By Robert Greenall & The Visual Journalism Team
BBC News
Reuters have put out this picture of the moment just before the suspect was tackled. The air is thick with smoke and he's carrying what appears to be a weapon in his left hand.
As we've been reporting, police don't know what his motive was yet - he told police he had a grudge against a "specific organisation".
At the police press conference, it's emerged that he has said it was not about politics.
One of the daughters of Angola's former President José Eduardo dos Santos has been paying tribute to her father who has died at the age of 79.
Tchizé dos Santos has a stream of posts on Instagram saying how proud she is of his achievements during his four decades as president of the oil-rich nation.
One post has photos of the luminaries her father met during his career, including several taken with South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela and other leaders such as Russia's President Vladimir Putin and former US President Barack Obama.
"Proud of you my father. You gave your all. Did the best you could and you knew. Proud of your devotion and discipline. You are big forever," the accompanying message reads.
Another post is a collage of family photos from her childhood, with the message: "Parents never die because they are the truest love that children know in life. They live forever inside us."
People have been leaving flowers near the site of the shooting. Here's the scene in Nara now:
By Yuko Kato & Zubaidah Abdul Jalil
BBC News, Tokyo
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BBC News
Thomas Naadi
BBC News, Accra
The health authorities in Ghana have quarantined 34 people following two suspected cases of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease from the same family as Ebola.
Those under surveillance were part of contacts traced to the suspected cases.
The health authorities say they are closely monitoring the suspected Marburg outbreak - reported in two different locations in the Ashanti region of southern Ghana.
In a statement, officials said two patients, who had since died, tested positive for the virus.
If confirmed, these would be the first cases recorded in Ghana and only the second in West Africa.
The symptoms include diarrhoea, fever, nausea and vomiting. The virus is transmitted from fruit bats and spreads among humans through direct contact with the bodily fluids of infected people, surfaces and materials.
Samples have been sent to the Pasteur Institute in Senegal for further investigation.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ghanaian authorities are conducting further checks and have begun preparations to contain the possible outbreak.
José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola's second president who ruled for 38 years, has died aged 79 in Spain.
By Paul Kirby
BBC News
US President Joe Biden has said he is "stunned, outraged and deeply saddened".
Biden, like President Barack Obama, worked closely with the former Japanese prime minister when he was US vice-president.
He said: "He was a champion of the alliance between our nations and the friendship between our people.
"The longest serving Japanese prime minister, his vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific will endure.
"Above all, he cared deeply about the Japanese people and dedicated his life to their service.
"Even at the moment he was attacked, he was engaged in the work of democracy.
"While there are many details that we do not yet know, we know that violent attacks are never acceptable and that gun violence always leaves a deep scar on the communities that are affected by it.
"The United States stands with Japan in this moment of grief. I send my deepest condolences to his family."
A spokesperson for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the government intends to move ahead with already agreed policies such as immigration flights to Rwanda.
The press briefing at 10 Downing Street comes a day after Mr Johnson resigned as Conservative leader, saying he would step down as prime minister when a Tory leader was found.
This is not likely to be for several months, though Mr Johnson promised he would not use his remaining time as prime minister to make "major changes of direction".
In this light the spokesperson said the Rwanda asylum policy, announced by the government in April, would continue.
It intends to take some asylum seekers who cross the Channel to the UK on a one-way ticket to Rwanda to claim asylum there instead.
So far no-one has been sent to Rwanda from the UK. A flight that was due to take asylum seekers was cancelled before take-off last month, following a last-minute intervention by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The High Court in the UK is due to hear a judicial review challenging the legality of the deportation policy this month.
"Convention doesn't prevent or preclude government from seeking to fulfil that policy and that would include defending cases in court as required," PA News quotes the spokesperson as saying.
It was possible flights could depart before a judicial review, the spokesperson added.
Former US President Barack Obama has released a statement.
Obama, who worked closely with Abe when they were both leaders of their respective countries, said: "I am shocked and saddened by the assassination of my friend and long-time partner Shinzo Abe in Japan.
"Former prime minister Abe was devoted to both the country he served and the extraordinary alliance between the United States and Japan.
"I will always remember the work we did to strengthen our alliance, the moving experience of traveling to Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor together, and the grace he and his wife Akie Abe showed to me and Michelle.
"Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to the people of Japan who are very much in our thoughts at this painful moment."
