Japan's former PM Shinzo Abe assassinated

Japan's Prime Minister Abe Announces Resignation

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on August 28, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. Source: Getty / Pool/Getty Images

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The 67-year-old had been delivering a speech near a train station in the western city of Nara when he was shot by an assailant, who has been arrested.

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