月: 2017年5月

1. A meeting of trade ministers from the 11 nations who signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement has ended, confirming the importance of 11 nations’ further cooperation.
2. North Korean media have criticized Japan and the United States for their recent moves to keep Pyongyang in check.
3. Iran’s re-elected President Hassan Rouhani has stressed that he will continue engagement with the international community.

1. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says a military solution to deal with North Korea will be “tragic on an unbelievable scale.”
2. U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly says that firing the FBI chief relieved “great pressure” on him over the probe into potential links between his campaign team and Moscow.
3. Chinese President Xi Jinping has told a special envoy of South Korea’s new President Moon Jae-in that he wants to improve ties between the countries.

1. At least 52 people have been killed in an attack by the Islamic State militant group on villages in central Syria.
2. The Japanese government has decided on a bill for one-off legislation on Emperor Akihito’s abdication.
3. Delegates from around the world at law-making talks of the Paris Agreement have agreed to speed up their negotiations so that common rules could be adopted by December 2018.

1. The U.S. Justice Department has appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel to oversee the investigation of possible investigation between President Donald Turmp’s election campaign team and Russia.
2. Japan has lodged a protest with South Kroea about the operation of a South Korean research ship inside Japan’s exclusive economic zone without consent.
3. Japan’s government officials say the economy has expanded for the 5th straight quarter.

1. The members of the United Nations Security Council have agreed to ask U.N. member countries to fully implement the sanctions resolutions against North Korea.
2. U.S. President Donald Trump is under fire after U.S. media reported that he revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.
3. The news that Princess Mako of Japan is getting engaged to a man she met at university has come as a pleasant surprise to those who know them.

1. The U.N. Security Council has strongly condemned North Korea’s recent ballistic missile tests.
2. Major Japanese electronics firm Hitachi says it has suffered more damage from a recent cyber attack than initially reported.
3. Delegates from more than 130 countries, including 29 national leaders, have wrapped up a 2-day meeting in Beijing to promote China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative.

1. North Korea says it has successfully test-launched a new type of ground-to-ground ballistic missile on Sunday.
2. The chief of the European Union’s police agency says a global cyber attack has spread to 200,000 victims in at least 150 countries.
3. A senior official at the International Committee of the Red Cross says a cholera outbreak in conflict-plagued Yemen has killed at least 115 people.

1. North Korea launched a ballistic missile early Sunday morning from the northwestern part of the country.
2. The financial leaders of the Group of Seven nations have pledged to fight economic inequality.
3. The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank says it has approved 7 new members, bringing the total to 77 countries and territories.

1. Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the G7 economies have discussed reducing inequality and promoting free trade.
2. Key political figures in Japan and China have agreed on the importance of arranging a trilateral summit in Tokyo soon, together with South Korea.
3. Nuclear and non-nuclear nations have failed to narrow their differences over a proposed treaty that would legally ban nuclear weapons.

1. North Korea’s state-run media has reported on Moon’s win 2 days after the election.
2. The European Union has decided to ratify the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
3. The U.S. Senate has approved President Donald Trump’s nominee for trade representative.