日: 2017年7月7日

1. Leaders from the Group of 20 major economies will begin their summit on sustainable global growth in the northern German city of Hamburg on Friday.
2. Torrential rains continue to batter western Japan for a third day.
3. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised to take steps to ease farmers’ worries about the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union.

1. Record rain falls in southwestern Japan has prompted officials to issue emergency warnings.
2. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumiko Kishida says ministers from Japan and the European Union have agreed on a broad deal on an Economic Partnership Agreement.
3. U.N. Security Council members have failed to reach an agreement on how to respond to North Korea which announced it had succeeded in its first test-launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

1. The United States has strongly condemned North Korea’s launch of an “intercontinental ballistic missile.”
2. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he plans to confirm with U.S. and South Korean leaders that they will increase pressure on North Korea.
3. NHK has learned that Japan and the European Union are expected to reach a framework agreement on a free trade deal after settling almost all sticky points.