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- Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka has won the women’s singles title at the Australian Open.
- Tense discussions at the U.N. Security Council on the political crisis in Venezuela have resulted in no action.
- Brazilian authorities say 34 people have been confirmed dead and more than 300 others remain missing after Friday’s collapse of a mining dam in a southeastern region.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a three-week spending bill to reopen the government until February 15th, ending the longest shutdown in the U.S. history.
- The United Nations will begin an independent investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was critical of the Saudi government.
- Government figures show the number of foreign workers in Japan hit a record high last year.
- French automaker Renault has accepted Carlos Ghosn’s resignation as chairman and CEO as he remains in detention in Tokyo.
- Members of the prefectural assembly in Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Okinawa have agreed to add another choice for a planned referendum on relocation of a U.S. base.
- The U.S. Senate has voted down two competing budget bills that would have reopened the government.
- South Korea did not take a stance on Japan’s call for talks on the wartime labor issue at a meeting of the two countries’ foreign ministers.
- The Japanese prime minister says he hopes to hold telephone talks with the U.S. president before a second U.S.-North Korea summit planned for next month.
- Pope Francis has expressed his desire to visit Japan this November. It will be his first trip to Japan as head of the Catholic Church.
- The leaders of Japan and Russia have agreed to further accelerate negotiations on concluding a peace treaty that would include resolving the issue of four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan.
- The foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea are to hold their first meeting since the South Korean Supreme Court’s ruling on the wartime labor issue.
- The U.S. government is likely to speed up its preparations for a second summit between the U.S. president and North Korean leader.
- A Tokyo court has denied another bail request by Nissan Motor’s former chairman Carlos Ghosn.]
- The Japanese prime minister is seeking progress in talks with Russia on signing a peace treaty that would include a solution to the issue of Russian-held islands.
- U.S. and North Korean officials appear to have met in Sweden, following the announcement by the U.S. of a second summit next month.
- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence says a second U.S.-North Korea summit scheduled for late February is expected to focus on specific steps toward the North’s denuclearization.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is heading to Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin.
- The French economic minister has denied news reports claiming the French government told Japanese officials that it wants to integrate Renault and Nissan Motor.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says “things are going very well with North Korea” and a country has been picked to host his second summit with the North’s leader Kim Jong Un.
- The U.S. military has said an air strike in Somalia on Saturday killed 52 members of an Islamic militant group.
- A gasoline pipeline has exploded in central Mexico. Local authorities say at least 66 people were killed.
- The White House says the second U.S.-North Korea summit will take place “near the end of February.”
- Japan’s Defense Ministry plans to make public new evidence to support its claim that a South Korean naval vessel directed its fire-control radar at a Japanese patrol plane.
- More than half of a million high-school students and graduates across Japan are putting their knowledge to the test at unified college and university entrance exams.
- A close aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in the United States, apparently to discuss a second summit between the two countries’ leaders.
- Former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn’s attorneys have made another request for bail to the Tokyo District Court.
- Japan has launched a 26-meter-long Epsilon-4 rocket carrying seven small satellites from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan.