日: 2017年7月22日

1. Engineers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are working to scrap the facility’s damaged reactors. For the first time, they’ve found what’s likely to be fuel debris in one of them.
2. The Japanese prime minister has asked the British foreign secretary for Britain’s cooperation to bring the economic partnership agreement between Japan and the European Union into effect at an early date.
3. The White House announced on Friday that Press Secretary Sean Spicer will resign next month.

1. Chinese prosecutors say they have indicted former mayor of the northeastern city of Tianjin on bribery charges.
2. The second round of talks to negotiate Britain’s terms for leaving the European Union ended without concrete progress.
3. A magnitude 6.7 earthquake has struck off southwestern Turkey in the Aegean Sea.

1. The United States is bracing for the possibility of another ballistic missile launch by North Korea.
2. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has criticized China for its treatment of human rights activist and Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, who died last week.
3. Policymakers at the Bank of Japan have decided to continue with their easing program in a bid to achieve a 2-percent inflation target.

1. A senior U.S. military official says North Korea’s most recent missile launch shows the country now has the range to hit the United States, but it lacks the necessary guidance technology.
2. Senior lawmakers from Japan and the United States have agreed to enhance cooperation to increase pressure on North Korea.
3. Officials at Narita airport, near Tokyo, have placed traps to catch highly poisonous fire ants.