Suspect charged with murder in assassination of Japan's Shinzo Abe

Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe with murder, sending him to stand trial, a court said Friday. Tetsuya Yamagami was arrested immediately after allegedly shooting Abe with a homemade gun as the former leader was making a campaign speech in July outside a train station in Nara in western Japan.

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