日: 2020年10月26日

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.