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'CryptoQueen' Ruja Ignatova's international scheme landed her on FBI's Most Wanted

4:24pm July 08, 2022

by Amanda Aronczyk

There is a new name on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list — Ruja Ignatova, known as the CryptoQueen. It's a story of international fraud at a scale rarely seen.

An employee of the Yomiuri Shimbun distributes extra editions of the newspaper in Tokyo with reporting on the shooting of Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday.

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Abe's assassination shocks Japan, where gun control is strict and shootings are rare

4:09pm July 08, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Japan, with famously strict laws, has among the world's lowest rates of gun ownership and gun violence. In 2018 there were just nine firearm deaths reported in Japan, compared with 39,740 in the U.S.

People in Tokyo watch TV news reporting Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot on Friday.

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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated at a campaign rally

12:58pm July 08, 2022

by John Ruwitch

Shinzo Abe had been Japan's longest-serving prime minister and remained a force in politics after stepping down in 2020.

Itinerante, un trío que revive la música andina de Colombia

12:35pm July 08, 2022

by Betto Arcos

Tocada en tres instrumentos de cuerda, esta música fue la banda sonora del país desde principios del siglo XX hasta la década de 1940.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes a speech before he was shot from behind by a man in Nara, a city in western Japan, on Friday.

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Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was killed. Here's what the scene was like

11:00am July 08, 2022

by Catie Dull

Here are photos from the scene when Japan's former leader, Shinzo Abe, was assassinated while giving a campaign speech.

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What Shinzo Abe's assassination means for Japan's political landscape

10:00am July 08, 2022

Leila Fadel speaks with James D.J. Brown, associate professor of political science at Temple University's Japan Campus, about the death of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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Shinzo Abe brought transformation to Japan that will last for generations

9:57am July 08, 2022

A Martinez speaks with Michael Green, formerly Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's legacy.

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A Muslim pilgrim prays on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual hajj pilgrimage, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Friday, July 8, 2022.

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Muslim pilgrims pray at Mount Arafat as hajj reaches apex

2:03am July 08, 2022

by The Associated Press

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.

Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to the media as he arrives at the prime minister's office for a cabinet meeting in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020.

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Japan ex-leader Shinzo Abe apparently shot, Japanese public broadcaster reports

11:44pm July 07, 2022

by The Associated Press

Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in heart failure after apparently being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, NHK public television said.

FIFA to install AI to help make accurate offside decisions

5:06pm July 07, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with ESPN editor Dale Johnson about FIFA's announcement that artificial intelligence cameras will help make offsides calls at the upcoming World Cup.