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- The U.S. and Russian envoys to the United Nations are at odds with each other over the suspected use of chemical weapons in Syria.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to respond “forcefully” to the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria.
- President Trump has said that he expects to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in May or early June.
- North Korea has told the United States that its leader, Kim Jong Un, is prepared to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
- In the Syrian district of eastern Ghouta, 49 people died on Saturday in what appears to have been gas attack.
- Japan’s national soccer team coach, Vahid Halihodzic, is being let go.
- Fighting has resumed in eastern Ghouta, an opposition stronghold near the Syrian capital of Damascus.
- NHK has learned that a trilateral summit in Japan, with China and South Korea, is in the final planning stage.
- A fire inside Trump Tower in New York City has left one resident dead and 6 firefighters injured.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has defended his proposed tariffs on Chinese goods, saying they will ultimately make the United States much stronger.
- The Trump administration has hit 38 Russian individuals and entities with sanctions for what it calls “malign activity.”
- Israeli forces have again opened fire on Palestinian protesters in Gaza, reportedly leaving at least 7 people dead and more than 1,000 others wounded.
- Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera says the Air Self-Defense Force has found some of the records of its operations in Iraq.
- China’s Commerce Ministry says it has initiated a World Trade Organization dispute resolution procedure over U.S. tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum.
- The foreign ministers of China and Russia have agreed that the U.S. needs to decrease its military pressure on North Korea in order to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
- Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera says his ministry will investigate why the Ground Self-Defense Force waited a year before reporting to the ministry about the discovery of official documents that it had earlier said it could not find.
- Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono is expected to visit South Korea next week in connection with the inter-Korean summit planned for late April.
- Foreign Minister Kono says Japan has lodged a protest with both Russia and the United States over a joint project on one of 4 Russian-controlled islands claimed by Japan.
- The U.S. military has unloaded 5 Air Force CV-22 Osprey aircraft from a ship docked near Tokyo. The aircraft are expected to be deployed at Yokota Air Base this week.
- The Trump administration has released a list of what Chinese goods it will target for tariffs.
- Police in the United States say 3 people were shot and wounded at YouTube’s headquarters in northern California.
- Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera has apologized again for the discovery of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force records after the ministry had repeatedly denied their existence.
- An aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump proposed a summit at the White House during a phone call last month.
- Japan’s Cabinet has approved a basic plan outlining a series of ceremonies and events to be held next year for Emperor Akihito’s abdication and Crown Prince Naruhito’s accession.
- The Bank of Japan has released the result of its Tankan survey on business sentiment.
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has praised a performance by South Korean musicians in Pyongyang.
- Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called on her country to be united for national development.
- The United States and South Korea began their annual joint military exercises on Sunday.
- A special adviser to the South Korean President says the South will strongly urge North Korea to denuclearize at the inter-Korean summit scheduled in late April.
- Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has criticized the country’s military-led interim government, saying that “there’s no justice” in his country.