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- Pacific island leaders have referred to North Korean issues for the first time in a joint declaration issued at the end of a meeting in Japan.
- Top economic officials from the United States and China say they will take measures to substantially reduce the U.S. trade deficit in goods with China.
- Japanese Director Hirokazu Koreeda’s “Shoplifters” has won the Palm d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
- More than 100 people have reportedly died when a Boeing 737 passenger plane crashed just after taking off from an airport in the Cuban capital, Havana.
- Ten people were killed and 10 others were injured in a shooting at a high school in the U.S. state of Texas.
- The families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea have asked the government to step up efforts to secure the return of their loved ones.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will get what he calls very strong protections if he agrees to denuclearize.
- Leaders from Japan as well as 18 Pacific island nations and territories will open two days of talks in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture.
- NHK has learned that Chinese anti-trust authorities have given the go-ahead to the sale of a chip-making unit of Japanese electronics maker Toshiba.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says he will insist on denuclearization at his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
- Guatemala has followed the United States in moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
- The Japanese government is making final arrangements to inform the World Trade Organization of its readiness to take retaliatory steps against U.S. tariff actions.
- North Korea says it will suspend high-level talks with South Korea scheduled for Wednesday.
- The United States has imposed sanctions on Iran’s central bank governor and 3 other individuals, accusing them of involvement in funding the Shia Muslim group Hezbollah.
- Japanese government data on preliminary GDP figures for the January-to-March period shows that the country’s economy shrank for the first time in 9 quarters.
- Turkey and South Africa are recalling their ambassadors to Israel after Israeli troops opened fire on Palestinian demonstrators in the Gaza Strip, killing scores.
- The Japanese foreign minister has called for a calm response to the relocation of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
- Iran’s foreign minister is to meet his counterparts from the U.K., France and Germany following the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.
- Japan’s prime minister says he wants to use occasions such as the G-7 summit to convey his nation’s position on North Korea to U.S. President Donald Trump.
- The U.S. government will move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Monday.
- Police in Indonesia have revealed that members of the same family were behind Sunday’s suicide bomb attacks on 3 churches.
- North Korea says it will dismantle a nuclear test site in the country’s northeast sometime between May 23rd and Mary 25th.
- A man armed with a knife attacked passers-by in the central district of Paris, killing one person and wounding 4 others.
- Conservative hardliners in Iran’s parliament have set out conditions for the country’s upcoming talks with 3 European nations over the nuclear deal.
- Japan’s government is arranging a meeting of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the upcoming Group of 7 summit in Canada.
- The Russian presidential office has announced that President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will hold talks in Moscow on May 26th.
- The Iranian foreign minister plans to meet with 3 of his European counterparts next week to discuss the Iran nuclear deal.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will hold a summit in Singapore on June 12th.
- The U.S. government has announce new economic sanctions against Iranian companies and individuals.
- Israel launched air strikes on military installations in neighboring Syria, killing at least 23 people.