月: 2017年7月

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.

1. Qatar and 4 other key Arab nations remain apart despite stepped up efforts by the United States to mediate a month-long rift between them.
2. The U.S. government is seeking talks aiming at renegotiations of its free trade agreement with South Korea.
3. Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been found guilty of taking bribes and sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison.

1. The United States has said it successfully carried out an intercept test of its advanced ballistic missile defense system.
2. Senior defense officials from Japan, the United States and South Korea say North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs pose a serious threat to peace and security not only in northeast Asia but other regions beyond.
3. Japanese cyber security experts say malware that wreaked havoc on computer systems around the world in May, is spreading again in a modified form.

1. Delegates from the Syrian government and opposition forces are in Geneva for peace talks aimed at ending the civil war in Syria.
2. A Japanese law that criminalizes the act of preparing to carry out terrorist attacks or other serious crimes came into effect on Tuesday.
3. Japan, the United States and India have begun a joint naval exercise in the Indian Ocean.

1. Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says Iraqi forces have defeated the Islamic State militant group and liberated the northern city of Mosul.
2. Russian President Vladimir Putin has told former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori that he is increasingly willing to solve a territorial dispute with Japan.
3. Japan’s prime minister reportedly plans to remove Defense Minister Tomomi Inada when he reshuffles his Cabinet.

1. The leaders from the Group of 20 countries have wrapped up their summit in Germany on Saturday.
2. The hospital treating Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo says that U.S. and German doctors examined the Nobel Peace Prize laureate on Saturday.
3. Iraqi forces are close to regaining full control of the northern city of Mosul, but the remaining Islamic State militants have vowed to fight to the death.

1. The United Nations has approved a global treaty to legally ban nuclear weapons.
2. Leaders of the Group of 20 nations are meeting in Hamburg, Germany. Attention is focused on whether they will be able to issue a clear message in support of free trade for sustainable growth amid growing calls for protectionism.
3. The leaders of Japan, the United States and South Korea have condemned North Korea’s claim of a successful intercontinental ballistic missile launch.

1. Leaders from the Group of 20 major economies will begin their summit on sustainable global growth in the northern German city of Hamburg on Friday.
2. Torrential rains continue to batter western Japan for a third day.
3. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised to take steps to ease farmers’ worries about the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union.