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Shinzo Abe, Japan's former prime minister, shot and hospitalized
Japanese former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot on Friday while campaigning in the city of Nara, a government spokesman said, with public broadcaster NHK saying he appeared to have been shot from behind by a man with a shotgun.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said he did not know Abe's condition. Kyodo news agency and NHK said Abe, 67, appeared to be in a state of cardiac arrest when taken to hospital.
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NHK, citing the police, said a suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, 42, had been taken into custody. He was a Nara resident, the report said. Images shared on social media showed a man being tackled after the shooting.
Boris Johnson Agrees to Resign as Prime Minister
Boris Johnson said on Thursday that he would step down as Britain's prime minister, after a wholesale rebellion of his cabinet, a wave of government resignations and a devastating loss of party support prompted by his handling of the the latest scandal that has engulfed his leadership.
Mr. Johnson said he would stay on in his post until the Conservative Party chooses a new leader, which could take several months. He said he expected the timetable for his departure and the selection of a successor to be decided on Monday by a committee of senior Conservative lawmakers.
"It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader," Mr. Johnson said in remarks outside Downing Street. "The process of choosing that new leader should begin now."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 08 2022, @08:58PM (3 children)
(and there's a joke somewhere in there about "you know you're in the south when people in their 20s are parents". up here near the territory of quebec, they're waiting until their mid 30s to have kids)
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 08 2022, @10:05PM (2 children)
Yes, there is a joke in there. And, your thirty-something parents are the butt of the joke.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by rcamera on Friday July 08 2022, @10:21PM (1 child)
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 09 2022, @02:03AM
Actually you're both partly right. You should be able to afford to look after your kids. But you should also have your kids in your twenties. If you wait until after you're thirty, you're going to be past fifty by the time they are grown. And that's not fair to the kids.
A fifty-something dad is going to have far less energy than at forty, mom is going to be hitting menopause, and both parents will be much more disconnected from the society their kids are growing up in.
I think there was a step change, where grandparents said "fuck you" to the next generation, sold the family home, bought a condo in Florida, and took their RVs on the roads. Before that, grandparents in their fifties would help out parents in their twenties. Three generations in the one house was common. Now, both parents work, childcare sucks up half of one wage, even if the grandparents were there they are too old to help and, "everything is fucked".