月: 2019年7月

1. Japan’s space agency has announced its space probe Hayabusa 2 has successfully made its second landing on the asteroid Ryugu.
2. A senior U.S. general has unveiled a plan to have U.S. allies escort commercial vessels with their national flags to secure the safety of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
3. Data from Seoul point to over 150 cases of illegal exports of strategic items by South Korea that can be used to produce weapons.

1. South Korea has criticized Japan at a meeting of the World Trade Organization over Tokyo’s tighter export requirements for some high-tech materials.
2. The U.S. government says American and Chinese trade officials have spoken on the phone, marking the first step in restarting their bilateral trade talks.
3. Japan’s space agency says the Hayabusa 2 probe has begun its descent onto an asteroid.

1. The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog has confirmed that Iran has breached the uranium enrichment level set by the 2015 nuclear agreement.
2. 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.
3. 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.

1. The U.S. envoy for North Korea is set for a series of meetings in Europe this week to offer updates on denuclearization negotiations.
2. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned that Iran faces increased pressure, including further sanctions, if it breaches a uranium enrichment cap.
3. Greece’s main opposition party has won an outright majority in Sunday’s general election, paving the way for the country’s first change of government in four years.

1. Many people are visiting one of a group of burial mounds in Osaka Prefecture, that has been added to the list of World Cultural Heritage sites.
2. Iran is expected to raise the level of uranium enrichment on Sunday beyond the level set by the 2015 nuclear deal.
3. Voters in Greece are going to the polls on Sunday for a general election amid growing public discontent with the government.

1. A senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to seize a British oil tanker in retaliation for the capture of an Iranian supertanker in Gibraltar.
2. Nearly 1,000 Uighurs have taken to the streets in the Turkish city of Istanbul to protest China’s suppression of ethnic minorities.
3. A group of ancient burial mounds in the western Japanese prefecture of Osaka is expected to be added to the World Heritage list at a UNESCO committee meeting on Saturday.

1. Police in Tokyo have arrested two Chinese nationals in connection with a scam using a cashless payment service from Seven-Eleven Japan.
2. Russia’s Foreign Ministry says it has lodged a protest with Japan over a video that was used at the recent G20 summit in Osaka. It says the four Russian islands were marked as the Japanese territory.
3. Authorities in the British territory of Gibraltar say they have intercepted an Iranian supertanker suspected of carrying crude oil to Syria, in violation of EU sanctions.

1. Candidates for Japan’s Upper House election are officially kicking off their campaigns, with voting set for July 21.
2. Weather officials are warning residents in parts of the southern island of Kyushu to stay alert for mudslides and flooding.
3. Japan has tightened restrictions on exports of some high-tech materials to South Korea.

1. Weather officials say extremely heavy rain will continue to batter the island of Kyushu in southwestern Japan through Thursday.

2. The European Union has nominated the chief of the International Monetary Fund, Christian Legarde, as the next president of the European Central Bank.

3. The U.S. has indicated it will allow the sale of “lower-tech” chips to China’s Huawei Technologies.

 

1. A night of escalating violence in Hong Kong has left territory shaken and its government scrambling to respond.

2. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the amount of low-enriched uranium stockpiled in the country has exceeded the limit imposed by the 2015 nuclear deal.

3. Saudi Arabia’s minister of state for foreign affairs is urging countries to pressure Tehran to abide by the 2015 nuclear deal.