- The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog has confirmed that Iran has breached the uranium enrichment level set by the 2015 nuclear agreement.
- South Korean government officials plan to raise the issue of Japan’s tighter controls on exports to their country at a World Trade Organization meeting.
- The Japanese prime minister says his government will not appeal a court ruling that ordered it to pay damages to families of former patients of Hansen’s disease.
July 9, Tuesday, 2019 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Hiroko Kitadai and Ms. Fumiko Konoe