月: 2017年5月

1. The U.S. Defense Department says it has successfully shot down an intercontinental ballistic missile in the first test of its kind using a ground-based intercept system.
2. U.S. Defense Department officials say the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan has entered the Sea of Japan for a joint drill with another aircraft carrier.
3. Japanese and Russian officials have begun to discuss details of a survey to promote joint economic activities on 4 Russian-held islands claimed by Japan.

1. North Korea says it has successfully carried out a test-launch of a new ballistic missile using what it called a precision control guidance system.
2. It has been a week since the terrorist attack in Manchester. Police are investigating what exactly the suspect was doing before the suicide bombing.
3. French President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have agreed to improve bilateral ties through dialogue.

1. North Korea launched a ballistic missile on Monday morning.
2. Monday marks 3 years since North Korea agreed at intergovernmental talks in Sweden to reinvestigate the fate of Japanese nationals abducted by the North in the 1970s and 1980s.
3. Russia’s newest passenger plane made its first test flight.

1. Leaders from the Group of 7 countries reached consensus on fighting protectionism, but could not find it on climate change.
2. North Korea’s state-run media say that the military conducted a test of a new type of anti-aircraft guided weapon system.
3. A suicide bomb attack killed 13 people and injured 8 others in Afghanistan on the first day of Islam’s holy Month of Ramadan.

1. Leaders of the Group of 7 nations have pledged to work together to step up the fight against terrorism.
2. British police say they have detained a “large part of the network” behind Monday’s suicide bombing in Manchester.
3. Gunmen have assaulted a bus in Egypt, killing more than 20 passengers, who were Coptic Christians.

1. The Group of Seven leaders will begin their summit in Italy on Friday.
2. North Korea’s state-run media reports that Russia has reaffirmed its stance of opposing U.S. sanctions against Pyongyang.
3. The last remaining unit of Japanese peacekeepers has left South Sudan, ending more than 5 years of Japan’s participation in a U.N. operation there.

1. British police are investigating a terrorist network that they believe assisted Monday’s bomb attack in Manchester.
2. Indonesian police have found pressure cookers packed with explosives at the blast site that killed 3 police officers in Jakarta.
3. Officials from the Group of Seven nations are working on a document, in which the leaders will condemn the bomb attack in Manchester and have expressed unity in fighting terrorism.

1. Britain’s prime minister has raised her nation’s threat level to the highest level after the deadly suicide attack in the city of Manchester.
2. U.S. President Donald Trump has arrived in Italy to begin a European tour.
3. The members of the U.N. Security Council have reaffirmed that they will implement sanctions against North Korea, but they remain divided over imposing additional ones.

1. British police say 19 people have been killed and about 50 others injured in an explosion at a concert venue in Manchester.
2. U.S. President Donald Trump has assured Israel that Iran will never possess nuclear weapons.
3. Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye has made her first appearance at her trial of corruption, abuse of power and other charges.

1. North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un approved deployment of a new intermediate ballistic missile and had ordered its mass production.
2. Japan logged a goods trade surplus of 482 billion yen, or 4.3 billion dollars in April.
3. U.S. President Donald Trump has called on states in the Islamic world to join together and cooperate with the United States in the fight against terrorism.