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Weekend: Shinzo Abe’s body returns to Tokyo home

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Shinzo Abe’s body returns to Tokyo home

09/07/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Shinzo Abe’s body returns to Tokyo home

Former PM was shot while speaking at a political event in the southern city of Nara

Former PM was shot while speaking at a political event in the southern city of Nara.

Tributes are paid to the former Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, after his assassination.

Also, the race is on to be Britain's next Prime Minister, we have the latest...

There's a stand-off between the world's richest man and Twitter, as Elon Musk says he wants to  pull out of a forty-billion dollar deal to buy the company.

And northern Italy sees its worst drought in 70 years.

Joining Paul Henley to discuss these and other issues are, Liz Sly, Correspondent-at-large for the US newspaper, the Washington Post; and Nanjala Nyabola, a Kenyan writer and political analysist.

(Image: A hearse transporting the body of former Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, arrives at his residence in Tokyo. Credit: Photo by KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)

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