月: 2018年2月

1. Japan’s Lower House budget committee has approved the country’s largest-ever draft budget.
2. A human rights group says airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government troops have killed 6 locals, despite a 5-hour ceasefire called by Russia.
3. North Korea’s ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament says his country will certainly respond if the United States ignores efforts to improve inter-Korean relations and chooses provocation and confrontation.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump says the United States will talk with North Korea only “under the right conditions.”
2. Russia’s defense minister has announced there will be daily “humanitarian pauses” in fighting in Syria’s eastern Ghouta area.
3. South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha mentioned the issue of those referred to as comfort women in a speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council.

1. The PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games have come to an end after more than two weeks of excitement in South Korea.
2. A high-level North Korean delegation to South Korea says that the country is fully ready to talk with the United States.
3. Residents of eastern Ghouta in Syria are dismayed over the resumption of attacks by government forces one day after the U.N. Security Council adopted a cease-fire resolution.

1. A new wave of attacks by Syria’s government forces has raised the civilian death toll to over 500 in the eastern suburbs of the capital Damascus.
2. At the PyeongChang Olympics, Japanese speed skater Nana Takagi has won gold in the Women’s Mass Start event.
3. The Chinese government has harshly criticized new U.S. sanctions against North Korea, which target shipping firms based in China and Taiwan, among other entities.

1. The United States has announced that it is imposing the largest ever set of sanctions against North Korea.
2. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet have agreed to work closely to bring the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement into effect as soon as possible.
3. The Syrian government is reportedly planning a ground invasion of eastern Ghouta, an opposition stronghold in the suburbs of the capital, Damascus.

1. The U.S. government has expressed displeasure over the planned visit of a high-ranking North Korean official to South Korea.
2. Japan and Mongolia have agreed to increase pressure on North Korea, which is continuing its nuclear and missile development.
3. Japan’s Crown Prince Naruhito turned 58 on Friday.

1. A human rights group in Syria says more than 300 people have been killed in the suburbs of the capital Damascus as government forces step up an offensive.
2. High school students who survived a mass shooting in Florida have appealed for stricter gun control in their state.
3. Japanese speed skaters have won gold in the women’s team pursuit event at the PyeongChang Olympics on Wednesday.

1. A human rights group in Syria says more than 250 people have been killed in air raids and shelling carried out by government forces over 3 days through Tuesday.
2. The Japanese government has decided to hold next year’s Group of 20 Summit meeting in the western prefecture of Osaka.
3. Fishermen in northern Japan are planning to demand compensation for a fishing ban imposed after a U.S. fighter jet dumped fuel tanks into a lake.

1. A fighter jet from the U.S. Misawa Airbase in northern Japan developed an engine fire on Tuesday morning and offloaded fuel tanks into a lake.
2. Syria’s state-run television reports that the country’s government will deploy troops to help Kurdish forces repel a Turkish offensive.
3. The United Nations Children’s Fund has warned that Pakistan is home to the highest newborn mortality rates in the world.

1. Japan’s Nao Kodaira has set a new Olympic record to win the gold medal in the women’s 500 meter speed skating at the PyeongChang Olympics.
2. Israel and Iran have traded accusations over a recent cross-border airstrike in Syria conducted by Israel.
3. The people of Kosovo have celebrated a decade since it declared independence from Serbia.