November 9, Saturday, 2019 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Risa Shimizu and Ms. Fumiko Konoe

  1. People in Hong Kong held vigils on Friday for a 22-year-old university student who died after falling from a building during a police crackdown on protesters.
  2. Turkey has announced it will extradite captured Islamic State fighters to their home countries starting on Monday.
  3. U.S. President Donald Trump says he has not agreed to roll back U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods. Earlier the Chinese government said Beijing and Washington had agreed to reduce tariffs on each other’s goods in phases.

 

 

 

November 8, Friday, 2019 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Emma Howard and Ms. Raja Pradhan

1. U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper is expected to ask South Korea to review its decision not to renew its intelligence-sharing pact with Japan later this month.

2. The Chinese government is stressing its efforts to crackdown on smugglers of fentanyl that has become a serious issue in the United States.

3. Delegates to the International Energy Agency have criticized Iran for denying an IAEA inspector access to a nuclear facility.