日: 2020年1月16日

1. The Japanese health ministry says a new strain of coronavirus has been detected in a man who visited Wuhan, China.
2. The United States and China signed a “phase one” trade deal in Washington on Wednesday.
3. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has announced his government’s resignation after President Vladimir Putin proposed drastic political reform.

1. The foreign affairs chiefs of Japan, the United States and South Korea have discussed North Korea’s denuclearization.
2. The foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea have failed to narrow their differences over a war-time labor issue that has soured bilateral relations.
3. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has completed his three-nation Middle East tour.

1. The U.S. Treasury Department has dropped its designation of China as a currency manipulator, citing improvements in the nation’s currency practices.

2. Iran’s leaders are facing a public outcry over the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet by the military.

3. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdubee have agreed to work together to help defuse tension in the Middle East.

 

1. Iraq’s defense ministry says rockets hit a base hosting U.S. forces, wounding four local soldiers.
2. Japan’s prime minister has met Saudi Arabia’s crown prince to discuss ways to ease political tension in the Middle East.
3. Airlines have cancelled some flights to and from the Philippines and the nearby island of Guam as ash spews into the air from a volcano near Manila.