{"id":46187,"date":"2022-07-08T22:06:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T13:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/world-leaders-unite-in-condemning-shinzo-abe-assassination"},"modified":"2022-07-08T22:06:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T13:06:28","slug":"a-loss-for-the-world-leaders-unite-in-condemning-shinzo-abe-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46187","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A loss for the world\u2019: leaders unite in condemning Shinzo Abe assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US praises former Japanese leader\u2019s \u2018great vision\u2019, while Iran calls shooting an \u2018act of terrorism\u2019<\/p>\n<p>From Washington to Tehran, Seoul to Kyiv, political leaders around the world have condemned the assassination of the former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, and paid tribute to the country\u2019s longest-serving leader.<\/p>\n<p>Abe was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot\">shot while campaigning for parliamentary elections<\/a>, and died in hospital several hours later. The US president, Joe Biden, said he was \u201cstunned, outraged and deeply saddened\u201d by the killing. \u201cThis is a tragedy for Japan and for all who knew him,\u201d he said. \u201cEven at the moment he was attacked, he was engaged in the work of democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/08\/world-leaders-unite-in-condemning-shinzo-abe-assassination\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US praises former Japanese leader\u2019s \u2018great vision\u2019, while Iran calls shooting an \u2018act of terrorism\u2019From Washington to Tehran, Seoul to Kyiv, political leaders around the world have condemned the assassination of the former Japanese prime minister Shinz&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,638,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-shinzo-abe","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46188,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46187\/revisions\/46188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}