July 8, 2022: Shinzo Abe assassinated, Boris Johnson, China, Taiwan, July 4 parade shooting, COVID

July 8, 2022: Japan ex-PM Shinzo Abe assassinated, Contest to replace Boris Johnson begins, China combat exercises around Taiwan, July 4 parade shooting, COVID

1. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving leader of modern Japan, was gunned down while campaigning for a parliamentary election, shocking a country where political violence had become almost unthinkable.

2. As many as a dozen candidates were eyeing up replacing Boris Johnson as British prime minister after he was forced to quit by his own party, with opponents saying they want him out of Downing Street immediately.

3. Chinese fighter jets crossed the median line of the sensitive Taiwan Strait in what the island's government slammed as a provocation, as a senior U.S. senator visited Taipei for a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen that China condemned.

4. An 8-year-old boy suffered a severed spinal cord from a gunshot wound to his chest in the July Fourth attack on a Chicago-area parade that left seven dead, a family spokesman said, with his twin brother and mother also wounded.

5. Beijing’s city government has dropped plans to allow only vaccinated people to enter crowded venues such as libraries, cinemas and gyms from Monday, following a strong online backlash to the measure announced earlier this week.

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