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- U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will attend a ceremony in Nagasaki next week to mark the 73rd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city.
- Japan and Russia have agreed to cooperate on their shared goal of denuclearizing North Korea.
- The South Korean government says the 2 Koreas have agreed on some steps to ease the tensions on the Peninsula, including a plan to withdraw some troops from border guard posts on a trial basis.
- The Washington Post says U.S. spy agencies are seeing signs that North Korea is producing new intercontinental ballistic missiles at a plant on the outskirts of Pyongyang.
- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced investment initiatives worth 113 million dollars to help infrastructure and other projects in the Indo-Pacific region.
- Japan will seek Russia’s support over denuclearizing North Korea in a meeting of foreign and defense chiefs.
- Cambodia’s ruling party says it will probably win all 125 seats in Sunday’s general election.
- A research team from Kyoto University will soon start clinical trials using induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells to treat Parkinson’s disease.
- Tropical storm Jongdari is moving southward of Kyushu Island in southwestern Japan.