月: 2017年6月

1. A Japanese delegation is heading for Russian-controlled islands claimed by Japan to study the feasibility of launching joint economic projects there.
2. The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting people from 6 Muslim-majority countries to be partly reinstated.
3. Islamic State fighters are putting up resistance in Mosul as Iraqi government forces close in on their last pocket of strength.

1. Japanese airbag manufacturer Takata has filed for bankruptcy protection in a Tokyo court, following massive recalls of its products across the globe.
2. Japan’s state minister for foreign affairs has called on the United Arab Emirates to resolve its diplomatic dispute with Qatar through dialogue.
3. A tourist ferry has sunk on a reservoir in northwestern Colombia. Local media say 9 people are dead and about 30 others missing.

1. South Korean President Moon Jae-in says he will aim to form an inter-Korean team to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
2. North Korea is likely to maintain a defiant attitude toward the United States, as it marks the anniversary of the start of the Korean War on Sunday.
3. The United Nations has sounded the alarm over rising civilian casualties in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, where intense battles between government forces and the Islamic State group continue.

1. British Prime Minister Theresa May has explained to European Union leaders about her proposal to protect the rights of EU citizens living in the U.K. But several EU leaders expressed dissatisfaction.
2. U.N. Secretary-General Antoni Guterres has called for assistance for people fleeing the armed conflict in South Sudan.
3. More than 100 people are missing after a massive landslide in China’s Sichuan Province.

1. Candidates for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly are kicking off their official campaigns for an up-coming election.
2. Japan’s southern prefecture of Okinawa on Friday marks 72 years since an extremely fierce and bloody ground battle toward the end of World War II.
3. U.S. government officials say North Korea has carried out combustion tests for rocket engines that could be used in an intercontinental ballistic missile.

1. The United States and China continued to differ on how to respond to North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.
2. Islamic State militants have blown up a historic mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul where they had declared their self-styled caliphate.
3. The Japanese government plans to help Uganda cope with an influx of refugees from conflict-stricken South Sudan.

1. The U.S. government says it will increase pressure on North Korea following the death of an American student released by the country.
2. Belgian prosecutors are investigating an explosion at a train station in Brussels as an act of terrorism.
3. Struggling Japanese electronics maker Toshiba has announced that it picked a government-led multinational consortium as the preferred bidder for the sale of its chip unit.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump has denounced North Korea over the death of an American college student.
2. A car rammed into a police van in Paris in what appears to be the latest in a string of attacks targeting police.
3. Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has accused the United States of aiming to prolong the war in Syria rather than defeating the Islamic State militant group.

1. Police in London say a vehicle has struck a group of pedestrians in the city, leaving many people injured. They say they have detained one person.
2. The U.S. Navy says 7 missing sailors have been found dead inside the destroyer. They were involved in a collision with a container ship off Japan’s Pacific coast early Saturday.
3. French President Emmanuel Macron has secured a clear parliamentary majority after Sunday’s final round of the general elections.

1. The U.S. Navy says it has found several bodies on the USS Fitzgerald destroyer. They are believed to be crew members missing after the ship collided with a Philippine-flagged container vessel off eastern Japan.
2. London police say at least 58 are assumed dead in a fire that engulfed a 24-story apartment building in west London.
3. Representatives of Japanese atomic bomb survivors have marched in New York to support a proposed ban on nuclear weapons.