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- Japan’s foreign minister plans to meet his South Korean counterpart to push Seoul to agree to set up an arbitration panel over the wartime labor issue.
- Iran’s nuclear officials say they have quadrupled the country’s capacity to produce low-enriched uranium, amid escalating tensions with the United States.
- The United States has announced that an economic conference aimed at helping Palestinians will be held in Bahrain next month.
- Japan’s GDP grew at an annualized 2.1 percent in the January-to-March period, marking the second straight quarter of expansion.
- The foreign ministers of Japan and Tajikistan have agreed to boost bilateral relations in a wide range of fields.
- The world’s major oil producers have agreed to put off until next month a decision on whether to increase output.
- Australia’s conservative coalition government led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison looks certain to win Saturday’s general election.
- Nationalist parties from across Europe have gathered for a rally in Milan, Italy.
- Japan and five Central Asian countries have agreed to strengthen cooperation in infrastructure and tourism across the region.
- U.S. President Donald Trump will delay a decision by up to six months on whether to impose higher tariffs on imported automobiles and parts.
- China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi says his country opposes unilateral U.S. sanctions against Iran.
- Talks between Britain’s government and main opposition Labour Party over the country’s departure from the European Union have ended without an agreement.
- The New York Times says U.S. President Donald Trump told acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan that he does not want to go to war with Iran.
- Iran’s foreign minister is said to meet with senior officials in China to discuss U.S. sanctions against his country.
- President of Nissan Motor will hold on to his post under a new plan to shake up management at the scandal-plagued automaker.
- Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has discussed with his Japanese counterpart the growing tension in the Middle East.
- The U.S. State Department has ordered non-emergency government employees in Iraq to leave the country.
- U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has disclosed that the United States and China will likely resume ministerial-level trade talks at an early date.
- The U.S.-China trade dispute is intensifying after the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump began procedures to impose higher tariffs on almost all Chinese goods.
- Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says his country is not seeking a war with the United States.
- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has confirmed cooperation with Russia on North Korea and other issues.
- The U.S. is planning to extend its 25-percent tariff to nearly all goods China exports to the U.S.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says he will meet with the Chinese and Russian leaders on the sidelines of the upcoming Group of 20 summit, scheduled for late June in Osaka, Japan.
- A group of ancient burial mounds in western Japan is expected to be added to UNESCO’s World Cultural Heritage List.
- The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump will announce on Monday additional tariffs on roughly 300 billion dollars’ worth of Chinese products.
- Five people were killed when a gunman stormed a luxury hotel near a Chinese-funded port in southwestern Pakistan.
- The United Nations says rebel forces in Yemen have withdrawn from a key port as part of the plan designed to help bring an end to a 4-year civil war.
- Agricultural ministers from the Group of 20 economies concluded two days of talks and adopted a joint declaration.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has told China now is the time to act to make a trade deal with the United States.
- NHK has learned that Japan and the U.S. have agreed to hold working-level talks on trade before Trump visits Japan later this month.