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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), held nationwide protests on Friday, blocking roads and scuffling with police in some areas.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were both allegedly involved in car accidents over the past 24 hours.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, in an telephone interview given to Argentina’s Radio 10 on Sunday, suggested that the government of Argentina should implement a “hate speech” law, similar to the one passed by his regime in 2017, following the alleged assassination attempt against Argentina’s vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on Thursday.

Salman Rushdie has reportedly been taken off a ventilator, and is once again able to talk with others after being brutally attacked during an event in New York.

Multiple Japanese newspapers, citing unnamed police “sources,” reported on Saturday that the man arrested on charges of having assassinated former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo said he initially wanted to kill the leader of an unnamed “religious” group but found it more difficult than targeting Abe.

National Public Radio (NPR) characterized former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo as a “divisive arch-conservative” a mere hours after a gunman assassinated him during a campaign rally on Friday.

Photos appearing to show Chinese vendors offering beverage discounts in celebration of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s assassination began to crop up on Chinese social media platforms including Weibo on Friday, Taiwan’s Apple Daily newspaper reported.

The suspected assassin of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, shot and killed while giving a campaign speech on Friday, allegedly told law enforcement officials that he held no “political grudge” against Abe, Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported citing unnamed “investigative sources.”

Chinese social media reportedly blew up Friday with posts gleefully celebrating the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, who annoyed the tyrants of Beijing with his staunch support for Taiwan.

Video footage of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s assassination on Friday appears to show that the leader had very little security protecting him at the time of his murder, which took place as he gave a campaign speech outdoors.

China’s Global Times state propaganda outlet described former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo on Friday as having a “bad reputation” and a career littered with “wrongdoings” just hours after the Japanese government announced Abe’s death. 

World leaders expressed shock and grief at the loss of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo after he was assassinated on Friday.

U.S. Supreme Court Marshal Gail A. Curley has penned letters to Maryland authorities, including Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD), imploring them to “enforce laws that prohibit picketing outside of the homes of Supreme Court Justices who live” in the state, per copies of the letters shared by Fox News host Shannon Bream. 

The Justice Department appears to still be allowing protesters to gather outside of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home even after police arrested a man who allegedly intended to assassinate him.

“A California man carrying at least one weapon near Brett M. Kavanaugh’s Maryland home has been taken into custody by police after telling officers he wanted to kill the Supreme Court justice,” reports the Washington Post.

Dominican Republic Environment Minister Orlando Jorge Mera was shot and killed in his government office on Monday by a man who knew Mera since childhood, the local Listín Diario newspaper reported Tuesday.

Russia’s FSB security service on Monday announced the arrest of an alleged six-man Ukrainian-directed “Nazi Assassin” squad supposedly plotting to murder Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov.

Turkish authorities detained Samir Handal, a “person of great interest” for his alleged connection to the July 7 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, on Sunday at Istanbul Airport, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on Monday announced the launch of the Middle East Green Initiative, a prospective $10.4 billion investment fund for clean energy and reduced carbon emissions. 

The United States will delay the release of records connected to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and officials claimed the coronavirus pandemic is to blame.

A 40-year-old Turkish man arrested last month is being investigated on suspicion he may be a Turkish government assassin tasked with murdering opponents of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday vowed the “response will be strong” to an apparent assassination attempt against his top aide, Serhiy Shefir. Zelensky worked his furious response to the attack on Shefir into his fiery address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Wednesday afternoon.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday ruled the Russian government was behind the 2006 assassination of Alexander Litvinenko, a former agent of Russia’s FSB security service who defected to the United Kingdom and went to work for Britain’s MI-6. 

A public prosecutor in Haiti on Tuesday sought charges against the country’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, in connection with the July assassination of late Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, prompting Henry to fire the prosecutor.

Taliban gunmen on Friday assassinated Dawa Khan Menapal, chief media and information officer for the government of Afghanistan, while he was driving west of Kabul.

The Miami Herald on Sunday reported that Haitian President Jovenel Moise placed frantic calls to the National Police ten minutes before he was gunned down by a commando squad in his home, but neither the police nor the president’s own security detail answered.

Some Colombian nationals arrested for suspected involvement in the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise this month received U.S. government-funded military training, Voice of America reported on Friday.

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has informed the Senate Judiciary Committee that one of the suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was a “confidential source” to the agency, Breitbart News has learned.

A former police officer turned one of Haiti’s most powerful gang bosses, Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, accused an “international conspiracy against the Haitian people” this weekend of resulting in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in his home last week.

Haitian police on Thursday arrested 11 suspects believed to be involved in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise on Wednesday for forcibly entering the grounds of the Taiwan Embassy in Haiti, Taiwan News reported.

Police in Haiti said on Friday that most members of the “commando squad” sent to assassinate President Jovenel Moise on Wednesday have been killed or taken into custody.

The shocking assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise by a squad of gunmen on Wednesday left two people claiming to be the interim prime minister and dueling for power: neurosurgeon Ariel Henry, former minister of the interior, and former foreign minister Claude Joseph.

The Chinese government has been conspicuously silent since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise of Haiti on Wednesday. Haiti is a notable diplomatic ally of Taiwan, which China has been working to isolate.

The National Police of Haiti confirmed in a press conference late Wednesday that authorities had identified a group of “commandos” suspected of having assassinated President Jovenel Moïse in his home the night before.

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who barely survived an attempt on his life in August, claimed Monday that he tricked an agent of Russia’s FSB security service into admitting his underwear was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok on orders from the government of President Vladimir Putin.

Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, top commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), claimed Friday that Israel is “nearing collapse” because of its “cowardly and brutal crimes,” such as its alleged assassination of Iranian nuclear weapons scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.