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- A wintry weather pattern over Japan is bringing snow mostly along the Japan Sea coast from northern to western Japan. Heavy snow is blanketing mountainous regions.
- Egypt’s Interior Ministry says three Vietnamese tourists and one Egyptian tour guide were killed when an explosion struck their bus in the outskirts of Cairo.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says he will close the southern border with Mexico unless the Democrats agree to fund the building of a border wall.
- Defense officials of Japan and South Korea have failed to reconcile their differences in the first talks on a dispute concerning a South Korean military ship’s recent radar operations.
- Japan’s foreign minister says Japan will make efforts to gain understanding for its decision to pull out of the International Whaling Commission, or IWC.
- Tokyo stocks ended the morning session lower on the final trading day of the year.
- President Donald Trump has made a surprise visit to U.S. troops in Iraq.
- New York share prices soared over 1,000 points on Wednesday, putting an end to a four-day bearish streak in post-Christmas trading.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country will deploy next year glide vehicles that can carry nuclear payloads and fly at 20 times the speed of sound.