October 21, Sunday, 2018 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Mr. Hirokazu Sakamaki and Ms. Keiko Kitagawa

  1. World leaders are urging the Saudi Arabian government to provide more details about the apparent killing of the Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.
  2. U.S. President Donald Trump says he will scrap the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, known as the INF, signed with the Soviet Union.
  3. Japan’s main ruling Liberal Democratic Party is aiming to present the party’s plan on a Constitutional amendment in the upcoming extraordinary Diet sessions starting Wednesday.