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- At least 2 elderly men and a little girl are dead in Osaka, Japan, for the magnitude 6.1 earthquake on Monday morning.
- Japan’s Foreign Ministry has lodged a protest over planned military drills by South Korea on the Takeshima Islands in the Sea of Japan.
- Japanese car maker Toyota won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the first time on Sunday.
- The Japanese defense minister plans to visit potential sites for the deployment of a new ground-based ballistic missile defense system.
- Government forces in southern Yemen says they have almost recaptured an airport in the city of Hodeidah, the rebel forces’ most important stronghold.
- Japan’s national soccer team has conducted a closed training session ahead of its first match of the World Cup in Russia against Colombia.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has announced additional duties on Chinese imports worth 50 billion dollars, while China has also announced specific tariffs to counter Trump’s decision.
- A North Korean state-run radio has stated that the issue of the abductions of Japanese nationals has already been settled. It was the first mention of that issue by the North Korean media since President Trump raised it during his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
- The defense ministers of the United States and South Korea have discussed joint military drills, after President Donald Trump suggested that he may stop them.
- Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera says North Korea’s nuclear and missile issues will be discussed in parallel with its abductions of Japanese nationals when the countries talk.
- Hong Kong’s Legislative Council has passed a bill to allow China to conduct immigration checks at the Hong Kong station of a high-speed railway.
- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has expressed hope of achieving “major disarmament” by North Korea during President Trump’s current term.
- South Korea and North Korean are holding high-level military talks to discuss ways to ease tension on the Korean Peninsula.
- The 2018 FIFA World Cup will begin in Russia on Thursday with a game in Moscow between Russia and Saudi Arabia.
- The United States and North Korea will continue high-level negotiations on the North’s denuclearization as the statement signed by the 2 leaders is short on specifics.
- Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has indicated he will seek an opportunity for direct talks with the North Korean leader to resolve the North’s abductions of Japanese nationals.
- Japan’s Diet has approved amendments to the Civil Code that will lower the age of adulthood from the current 20 years to 18.
- The first-ever summit meeting between the United States and North Korea is underway in Singapore.
- The Japanese prime minister says President Trump has promised to raise the abduction issue during the summit.
- The U.N. secretary general says the United Nations is prepared. if asked, to help verify that North Korea has denuclearized.
- U.S. and North Korean officials have met to make final preparations ahead of Tuesday’s historic summit.
- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has agreed with his Russian and Chinese counterparts to maintain the 2015 nuclear agreement.
- The Swiss city of Sion has given up its bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics because of the high costs of hosting such an event.
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Group of 7 Summit was a success and the leaders of the industrialized nations have agreed to issue a joint communique.
- An international media center for reporters covering the first-ever U.S.-North Korea summit opened in downtown Singapore.
- The leaders of China, Russia and 6 Asian countries are meeting in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao to discuss security and economic cooperation.
- U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders of the G-7 nations have been engaged in a heated debate over trade at their summit in Canada.
- The head of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is traveling to Singapore, where she will issue a call for global nuclear disarmament, ahead of the planned U.S.-North Korea summit.
- The Shanghai Cooperation Organization will open a 2-day summit on Saturday in Qingdao, China.