Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced one-day national mourning on July 9 as a mark of respect for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who tragically died after being shot during a campaign event at Nara city in Kyoto.

• Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, has died from gunshot wounds. He was 67. Abe was shot with a handmade weapon on Friday while he campaigning for fellow a Liberal Democratic Party politician in Nara ahead of Sunday's elections for the upper house of Japan's parliament.
• He was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries to his neck and chest, Japanese media reported, and no vital signs.
• Police arrested a 41-year-old local, Tetsuya Yamagami, a former member of Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces, and charged him with shooting Abe.