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A hearse carrying the body of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated while on the campaign trail last week, arrives at Zojoji Temple in Tokyo. IMAGES
Akie Abe, wife of Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, arrives in Nara, where her husband is being treated after being shot at a campaign event. The shooting of the country's best-known politician comes despite Japan's strict gun laws and with campaigning under way ahead of upper house elections on Sunday. IMAGES
The casquet of slain Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, shrouded in a Palestinian flag, is carried into the Mohammad Ibn Abd al Wahhab Mosque in Doha as hundreds line up for the funeral prayers before his burial. Haniyeh was killed in Tehran in an attack blamed on Israel, deepening fears of a wider war. IMAGES
An emergency services helicopter lands at a Moscow hospital after a deadly shooting at a suburban theatre killed an estimated 40 people an injured at least 100 more, according to Russia's FSB. Attackers dressed in camouflage uniforms opened fire on a rock concert and threw a grenade or incendiary bomb, setting off an inferno in the Crocus City Hall, according to a journalist for the RIA Novosti news agency at the scene. IMAGES
Coffin transporting body of former president Sebastian Pinera arrives at cathedral as the country holds State funeral. The 74-year-old billionaire died on February 6th when the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a lake. IMAGES