月: 2017年3月

1. South Korean prosecutors have arrested former president Park Geun-hye after receiving court approval for an arrest warrant.
2. The governments of Malaysia and North Korea have announced an agreement relating to the body of Kim Jong Nam.
3. Iraqi authorities suspect the Islamic State militant group carried out a suicide truck bombing in Baghdad that killed at least 17 people.

1. South Korea’s ousted president is at a court hearing that will decide whether she should be arrested. Park Geun-hye is facing a number of changes in connection to a corruption scandal.
2. The Japanese government is to extend for 2 more years the unilateral sanctions against North Korea that are set to expire next month.
3. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Izumi Nakamitsu of Japan as the next Undersecretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to overhaul the measures for tackling climate change that were introduced by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
2. Britain will give notice on Wednesday of its intention to leave the European Union.
3. Groups of Japanese researchers say they have successfully transplanted iPS cells derived from a donor into a patient suffering from a senior eye disease.

1. The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a group seeking the removal of a statue symbolizing those referred to as “comfort women” in the state of California.
2. Negotiations on a treaty to legally ban nuclear weapons began at the U.N. on Monday without the participation of nuclear powers.
3. Seven high school students and a teacher have been confirmed dead following Monday’s avalanche at a ski resort north of Tokyo.

1. The conference to negotiate a legally binding treaty to ban nuclear weapons begins at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday.
2. A survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima has called for the creation of a new global treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons.
3. Multiple Malaysian media outlets say that the body of Kim Jong Nam was taken out of a hospital in Kuala Lumpur and transferred to another place in the country.

1. European Union leaders have vowed to strengthen the bloc’s unity on the 60th anniversary of a landmark treaty that laid the foundation for the current institution.
2. Media reports in Iraq say more than 130 civilians were killed after an airstrike carried out by the U.S.-led coalition trying to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State militant group.
3. A man who was abducted by North Korea and returned to Japan 24 years later spoke to NHK on the 20th anniversary of the founding of the group representing abductees’ families.

1. U.S. Republicans have abruptly pulled their healthcare bill from the House floor shortly before a planned vote. The move has dealt a blow to the Trump administration’s effort to repeal and replace the affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.
2. Families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea on Saturday marked the 20th year since the formation of a group seeking the return of their loved ones.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump has announced he will appoint William Hagerty, a senior member of his transition team, as the ambassador to Japan.
2. The U.N. Security Council has strongly condemned North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch and its ballistic missile engine test.
3. British police have identified the perpetrator of Wednesday’s deadly attack near Parliament in London.

1. The head of a scandal-hit school operator has told the Diet that he received a donation of one million yen, or about 9,000 dollars, from the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
2. Police in London who are investigating an attack in Britain’s capital say they believe the attacker was inspired by Islamic-related terrorism.
3. The South Korean government says work to recover the sunken Sewol ferry is expected to finish by Thursday night.

1. South Korea’s Defense Ministry says North Korea fired a missile on Wednesday morning, but that the launch appears to have been unsuccessful.
2. Prosecutors in South Korea investigating a corruption scandal have finished questioning former President Park Geun-hye for the first time. Park was allowed to return home after more than 21 hours of questioning.
3. A senior White House official says the Trump administration is reviewing the U.S. policy of pursuing a world free of nuclear weapons, as pursued by former president Barack Obama.