Japan's Ex Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Assassinated, Other Top Stories

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died today after being shot twice at a campaign event in the Nara region, the hospital treating him confirmed. Doctors who attended to him in the hospital say "bullet penetrated the heart". A cloudburst took place near the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday. In his first public address after the takeover by Eknath Shinde, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday demanded fresh elections in the state and said he would not let the rebels use the Shiv Sena's poll symbol.