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- South Korea’s military says North Korea fired two projectiles on Tuesday morning from South Phyongan Province.
- Nissan Motor has announced that its President and CEO Hiroto Saikawa is stepping down.
- British lawmakers have rejected Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s bid to call a snap election for the second time in less than a week.
- People in Tokyo are surveying the damage after a powerful typhoon brought heavy rain and record-breaking winds to the area.
- South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in has appointed his close aide, Cho Kuk, as justice minister, despite the series of corruption scandals plaguing him.
- Ministers from 16 Asia-Pacific economies have met in Thailand to negotiate a proposed free trade pact.
- Japanese weather officials say Typhoon Faxai is expected to make landfall in the Kanto region by Monday noon.
- The government in Hong Kong has denied online rumors that several protesters were beaten to death in a violent clash with police.
- Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 35 prisoners each in a bid to ease heightened tension following Moscow’s annexation of the Crimea region in 2014.
- Two typhoons are affecting the Japanese archipelago. Weather officials are advising people to be on the alert for possible disasters.
- Britain’s Upper Chamber has approved a bill to delay the country’s exit from the European Union until the end of January.
- India’s space agency says it has lost contact with the lander of unmanned lunar probe, Chandrayaan-2.
- Investigators say the driver of a truck involved in a deadly collision with a train in Yokohama struggled with his truck’s steering wheel before entering the railway crossing.
- Russia’s leader says Japan’s security alliance with the United States is one of the problems getting in the way of signing a peace treaty with Tokyo.
- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reiterated his call for a general election to create a breakthrough for the Brexit.
- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has failed to win the support of a two-thirds majority needed to pass a motion calling for an early general election on October 15th.
- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday. Abe is believed to confirm with Putin further cooperation on a range of topics.
- China’s state-run media say China and the United States will hold ministerial-level trade talks in Washington in early October.
- A senior Russian diplomat indicated it is unlikely a breakthrough will be made on signing a peace treaty with Japan at a bilateral summit planned for this week.
- British lawmakers have decided to debate a bill on Wednesday calling for the postponement of the United Kingdom’s planned departure from the European Union on October 31st.
- An Iranian official says if his country decides, it can increase the level of its uranium enrichment to 20 percent within two days.
- NHK has learned that Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intends to reshuffle his Cabinet and the ruling party executives on Wednesday next week.
- Protesters in Hong Kong are continuing their calls for a strike and for students to boycott their classes in a show of defiance toward the government.
- The Taliban has claimed responsibility for Monday’s fatal car bombing in Kabul. The announcement came as the U.S. special envoy for peace in Afghanistan reached a draft peace deal with the group.
- Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have blocked roads and rail tracks to and from the international airport, disrupting transport services across the territory.
- Japan’s exports to China fell in the first six months of the year as companies shifted production elsewhere to avoid trade tariffs.
- Japan’s latest draft defense white paper warns that North Korea may have already developed nuclear warheads small enough to be loaded into ballistic missiles.
- The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has implemented additional tariffs of about 15 percent on 110 billion dollars’ worth of Chinese imports.
- Iran’s deputy foreign minister says the United States has shown “some flexibility” on the licensing of sales of Iranian oil.
- Protests in Hong Kong have spread and escalated, with some demonstrators throwing petrol bombs and damaging public buildings.