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Tragic though it is, is the assassination of a former PM in a distant country really news here? It's symptomatic of 24 hour rolling news trying to sook us in with what they have film of, rather than what is actually relevant.
Depends on your point of view doesn't it? He was much more than just 'a former PM', it's akin to a figure like Thatcher or Blair getting blown away 2 years after they'd left office. It could have massive implications in terms of tensions in the Pacific and alround nationalism on the rise. Hopefully nobody pins it on a foreign plot (North Korea? China?) or we're really up the creek