April 9, Monday, 2018 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Mr. Yoshi Ogasawara and Ms. Emma Howard

  1. North Korea has told the United States that its leader, Kim Jong Un, is prepared to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
  2. In the Syrian district of eastern Ghouta, 49 people died on Saturday in what appears to have been gas attack.
  3. Japan’s national soccer team coach, Vahid Halihodzic, is being let go.