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- The Japanese government has found itself in a tight spot following the U.S. request that the international community completely halt imports of crude oil from Iran.
- The United States and China have agreed to strengthen military cooperation.
- The presidents of the United States and Russia are to hold a summit for the first time since July of last year.
- Japan’s space agency says its probe, Hayabusa 2, reached its destination asteroid, Ryugu, at 9:35 A.M. on Wednesday, Japan Time.
- The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld President Donald Trump’s travel ban on people from several predominantly Muslim countries, overturning lower court decisions that deemed it unconstitutional.
- The United States is urging Japan and others to completely stop importing crude oil from Iran within months.
- Japan’s foreign minister says his country is ready to dispatch experts for a possible inspection of North Korean nuclear facilities.
- Japan’s defense minister says he will meet his U.S. counterpart in Tokyo on Friday to discuss North Korea and other regional issues.
- U.S. treasury secretary says China is not the only target of investment restriction the Trump administration is to announce.
- Voting has ended in Turkey’s presidential election.
- Saudi Arabia has lifted a long-standing ban on women driving.
- Analysists expect business sentiment at Japan’s major manufacturers to worsen for a 2nd straight quarter.
- OPEC members and non-member oil producing countries have agreed to jointly increase production in a bid to prevent crude oil prices from rising further.
- Voters in Turkey will cast their ballots in presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday. All eyes are on incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is hoping to win a majority of the votes to secure his reelection.
- Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono has announced that Japan will help train Bhutanese administrative officers.
- Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Okinawa on Saturday marked 73 years since the end of a fierce ground battle in the closing days of World War II.
- U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis says his country will indefinitely suspend another 2 military exercises with South Korea.
- OPEC member countries have agreed to increase oil output in an apparent attempt to stem a further rise in crude prices but failed to announce a clear target.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says the repatriation of the remains of U.S. soldiers who fought in the Korean War is already underway.
- Japan’s chief cabinet secretary says the government will be suspending civilian evacuation drills against potential ballistic missile launches.
- An inter-Korean Red Cross meeting is underway to discuss reunions of families separated by the Korean War.
- Several member states of the U.N. Human Rights Council are voicing concern about the United States’ decision to withdraw from the body.
- North Korea’s state-run media has reported on leader Kim Jong Un’s visit to China for a second day, highlighting the close links between the 2 countries as the North begins talks with the United States.
- A Japanese scientist says fresh strain is believed to have built up along active faults in Japan’s western prefecture of Osaka after Monday’s major earthquake.
- The United States says it is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council because of what it calls the organization’s chronic bias against Israel.
- North Korean leader Kim Jong un reportedly wants denuclearization to be carried out in stages, with the backing of China.
- On the 6th day of the FIFA World Cup in Russia, Japan beat its group’s favorites Colombia 2 to 1, becoming the first Asian team to defeat a South American squad at the World Cup.
- Tremors believed to be aftershocks of Monday’s major earthquake have rattled the western Japanese prefecture of Osaka.
- The United States and South Korea have agreed to suspend a regular joint military exercise scheduled for August.
- In soccer, Japan’s head coach says his side will try to take the initiative in the country’s World Cup opener against Columbia.