月: 2020年10月

1. French media say three people have been killed in a knife attack at a church in Nice, southern France.
2. The European Union says it will financially support the transfer of COVID-19 patients across borders within the bloc. The move is aimed at preventing the collapse of healthcare systems in member countries with the resurgence of infections.
3. The Chinese Communist Party has unveiled a set of long-term targets, but gave no indication of a possible successor to President Xi Jinping.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump has campaigned for reelction in the battleground state of Arizona. His Democratic challenger Joe Biden cast an early vote in his home state of Delaware.
2. The U.S. economy bounced back sharply in the third quarter this year. The Commerce Department says that between July and September, GDP expanded at an annual rate of 33.1 percent. It is the first expansion in three quarters.  This compares with a contraction of 31.4 percent in the previous quarter, when the pandemic put the brakes on economic activity. But the country’s economic outlook remains far from certain.
3. French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered another lockdown across his country in response to a second wave of coronavirus infections there. France has seen a rapid surge in the number of COVID-19 infections in recent weeks. The figure has topped 1.2 million—the highest in Europe.

1. Authorities in Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania are struggling to quell a new round of protests triggered by the police shooting and killing of a Black man they say was armed with a knife.
2. The two contenders for the U.S. presidency are feeling the pressure of time, with just one week to go until election day. They’ve headed off on paths they hope will lead them to the White House. Joe Biden has taken a route that has been bumpy for Democrats. President Donald Trump has taken a well-traveled road, visiting states he won four years ago.
3. The United States and India have signed a pact to further strengthen military cooperation, including sharing sensitive information.

1. Japan’s Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide has delivered his first policy speech in the Diet since taking office last month. Topping the agenda was the coronavirus pandemic.
2. The commander of U.S. forces in Japan has said the capabilities of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military can be used to “deliver combat troops to defend” the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
3. The U.S. Senate has confirmed Amy Coney Barret as Supreme Court justice, just over a week before the presidential election.

 

1.A United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons has reached the 50 ratifications it needs to come into force. A U.N. official told NHK on Saturday that Honduras has ratified the pact.  The U.N. adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in July 2017 with the approval of 122 countries and territories.

2.The U.S. government says a new humanitarian ceasefire will take effect on Monday in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabackh.

3. The daily tally of coronavirus cases in the United States has topped 80,000 for the second straight day. The number of people in hospital has surpassed 40,000.

 

1. Over 47 million people have already cast ballots in the U.S. presidential election as of Thursday, according to the Associated Press. The figure, including mail-in ballots, is reportedly about 80 percent of the total early vote count for the 2016 election.
2. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden have wrapped up their final debate. The one-on-one in Nashville in the U.S. state of Tennessee comes less than two weeks before the November 3 election.
3. The Republican-led U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved President Donald Trump’s pick for a new Supreme Court justice despite the absence of its Democratic members.

1. Former U.S. President Barack Obama has campaigned in person for the first time in support of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
2. Protest leaders in Thailand have issued an ultimatum to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha step down or face another flood of people in the streets.
3. An international NGO says the number of signatories ratifying the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons may reach the required 50 mark as early as Friday.

 

1.The U.S. Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, saying that it uses monopolies to harm competition in the search and advertising markets.

2.The British government says it will fund trials that deliberately infect young volunteers with the new coronavirus in a bid to speed up the development of an effective vaccine.

3.Thailand has partially lifted an entry ban on tourists for the first time in seven months.

 

1. A powerful quake happened around 12:55 p.m. local time. The epicenter was at a depth of 40 kilometers. The Pacific Tsunami Center said that 70 centimeter tsunami waves were observed in the sparsely populated city of Sand Point.
2. U.S. media say President Donald Trump ahs downplayed the danger of the coronavirus and criticized the government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
3. A bear broke into a shopping center in Japan where it remained for more than 13 hours before it was shot dead. No one was injured.

 

1. Japan’s Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide has asked his Vietnamese counterpart, Ngyuen Xuan Phuc, for close cooperation to realize a free and open Indo-Pacific.
2. The former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia are accusing each other of breaching a second ceasefire agreement over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
3. U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden campaigned in key states on Sunday with just over two weeks to go until Election Day.