# Shinjo Abe

• Former prime minister Shinzo abe, Japan’s longest serving leader, died on Friday after being shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election.
• A man opened fire on Shinzo Abe from behind with an apparently home made gun as he spoke at a drab traffic island in the Western city of Nara.
• It was the first assassination of a sitting or former Japanese premier since the days of pre war militarism in the 1930s.
• India will observe a day of mourning for former Japanese prime minister Shinzo abe on Saturday.

# G20

• External affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Friday met with US secretary of state Antony Blinken and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in Bali on the Sidelines of the G20 foreign minister’s meet.
• The meetings indicated the emerging differences within the G20 grouping as Russia accused the United States of forcing the Europe and rest of the World to abandon cheap energy sources while the US blamed Moscow for global food insecurity.
• In the June 26-27 G7 summit in Munich, where both India and Indonesia were special guests, the leaders of the G7 countries floated the idea of capping Russian petroleum prices that India has not supported so far.

# Defence exports

• India’s defence exports for 2021-22 were estimated at ₹13000 crore rupees, the highest ever.
• The private sector accounted for 70% of the exports, while public sector firms accounted for the rest.
• While India’s defence imports from the US have gone up significantly in recent years, Indian companies have been increasingly becoming part of the supply chains of US defence companies.

# United Kingdom

• British former finance minister Rishi sunak said on Friday he was running to replace Boris Johnson, three days after helping to launch the cascade of resignations that brought the prime minister down.
• Party officials on Monday are expected to set out the time table for a leadership contest, with the aim of having a winner by the end of Summer.
• The two step process involves Tory lawmakers voting to reduce the field of candidates to two, who will go to a ballot of all party members.