月: 2017年6月

1. Seven crew members of a U.S. Aegis destroyer are reportedly missing following a collision with a Philippine merchant vessel on the Pacific near the coast of central Japan.
2. London police have confirmed at least 30 people died from the fire that engulfed a 24-story building on Wednesday.
3. Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has died. He was 87. Kohl was known for reuniting Germany and working to bring Europe together.

1. Delegates from around 80 countries have started the 2nd round of nuclear weapons ban talks at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
2. South Korean President Moon Jae-in says Seoul is ready to hold dialogue with Pyongyang unconditionally if it suspends nuclear and missile provocations.
3. Finance ministers from Eurozone countries have agreed to resume funding for Greece in a bid to prevent the cash-strapped country from defaulting on its debt.

1. Japan’s Diet has enacted a bill criminalizing the act of planning serious crimes such as terror attacks.
2. Residents who escaped a fire in a London high-rise residential building have said no alarm sounded as flames spread throughout the tower.
3. The U.S. Federal Reserve has decided to raise the key interest rate by a quarter point.

1. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has denied any involvement in alleged collusion between Donald Trump’s election campaign team and Russia.
2. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says North Korea has released an American university student after 17 months of detention.
3. The White House says U.S. President Donald Trump will meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Washington on June 29 and 30.

1. The environment ministers of the Group of Seven nations have wrapped up their meeting in Italy by issuing a joint statement.
2. Japan’s district court has rejected a bid by residents opposed to the restart of 2 nuclear reactors in southwestern Japan.
3. A survey shows that the use of the harmful construction material asbestos at some public housing units in Japan in the past cannot be fully brought to light.

1. The United States has reiterated that it will withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.
2. Japan’s Defense Ministry intends to decide in the next few months on how to upgrade its missile defense.
3. French President Emmanuel Macron’s new party has taken a clear lead in the first round of the parliamentary election.

1. Environment chiefs from the Group of Seven nations will begin 2 days of meetings on Sunday in Bologna, Italy.
2. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has offered support in ending the standoff between Qatar and its Gulf neighbors.
3. British Prime Minister Theresa May’s office says she has reached a broad agreement with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, or DUP, to help her form a minority government.

1. Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May seeks to form a new government despite her conservative party’s loss of its majority in Thursday’s general election.
2. U.S. President Donald Trump has refuted a testimony by former FBI director James Comey that he tries to block an investigation into a former national security adviser.
3. UNICEF says more than 40,000 children remain trapped in dangerous conditions in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the self-declared capital of the Islamic State militant group.

1. Japan’s Diet has enacted a bill that allows Emperor Akihito to abdicate, but the law only makes the provision for him. This will be the first time in 2 centuries that the Emperor will be allowed to step down.
2. North Korea’s state-run media report that the country has successfully carried out its first test-launch of a new type of surface-to-ship cruise missile.
3. Japan’s Education Minister Hirokazu Matsuno says his ministry will reinvestigate the existence of controversial ministry documents.

1. The South Korean military says North Korea has fired what appear to be several short-range surface-to-ship cruise missiles toward the Sea of Japan.
2. Iran’s President Hasan Rouhani has called for cooperation in fighting terrorism with other regional nations, including Saudi Arabia.
3. The leaders of Britain’s governing and opposition parties have called for support ahead of Thursday’s general election.