British defense chief Ben Wallace, the early Conservative party favorite to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, reacted to Black Lives Matter rioters defacing the Cenotaph war memorial in London by claiming Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy "so that Black lives would matter."
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech — an attack that stunned the nation that has some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere.