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- In Hong Kong, pro-democracy protesters took to the streets on Friday night after the government announced a ban on face masks at rallies.
- A 14-year-old boy was wounded after a police officer shot him with a live round.
- Officials from the United States and North Korea have met in Sweden ahead of planned working-level talks on Saturday.
- U.S. President Donald Trump says his country will hold talks with North Korea despite its launch of a new ballistic missile from a submarine.
- Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has updated her Twitter profile in an apparent bid to protest criticism made by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- Major Japanese non-life insurance firm Tokio Marine Holdings says it will buy U.S.-based Pure Group for 3.1 billion dollars.
- North Korea’s state-run media reports that the country has succeeded in test-firing a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
- South Korean prosecutors are questioning the wife of Justice Minister Cho Kuk for the first time over shady investments and other allegations involving the family.
- Heightened concerns over the U.S. economic outlook have triggered a selloff on Wall Street.
- South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says Pyongyang appears to have fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile, or SLBM.
- NHK has learned that the chiefs of the U.S. and South Korean militaries and Japan’s Self-Defense Forces have held tripartite talks.
- Hong Kong’s police chief says officers fired a total of six live rounds at four locations as they clashed with protesters on Tuesday.
- The Bank of Japan’s latest quarterly Tankan survey shows business sentiment fell to a six year low among large manufacturers.
- Japan’s consumption tax rose from 8 to 10 percent on Tuesday.
- Beijing is celebrating seven decades since the People’s Republic of China was founded.