日: 2017年7月18日

1. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the implementation of the Paris climate accord, saying that climate change poses a far-reaching threat.
2. Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan will contribute 1 billion dollars by 2018 to combat poverty and hunger in the world.
3. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has expressed his intention to speed up the establishment of a Muslim autonomous region on the country’s southern island.

1. South Korea’s government has proposed holding inter-Korean talks between military officials on Friday.
2. Japanese authorities will expand their search for poisonous fire ants following recent discoveries of the insect at ports and elsewhere in the country.
3. Hundreds of people were taken to hospitals across Japan with symptoms of heatstroke on Sunday, as the intense hot weather continues.

1. The brother of deceased Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo says his body was cremated and the ashes scattered at sea.
2. Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida is leaving for New York to take part in a U.N. meeting for sustainable development and the eradication of poverty.
3. Participation at an international fisheries conference have failed to adopt a Japanese proposal to set catch quotas for Pacific saury.

1. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said Japan will provide aid in the amount of more than 12 million dollars to Jordan.
2. Chinese authorities say the body of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo was cremated following a ceremony attended by his family and friends on Saturday.
3. At a Red Sea resort in Egypt, a man wielding a knife has stabbed 2 German women to death and wounded 4 other foreign tourists.

1. Chinese authorities say Noble Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has died.
2. Japan and Kuwait have agreed on the importance of getting Qatar and other Arab nations to hold direct talks soon and resolve their diplomatic dispute.
3. The U.S. Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee William Hagerty as the new U.S. ambassador to Japan.