日: 2021年9月22日

1.U.S. President Joe Biden has met separately with the leaders of Britain and Australia, pledging to boost cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. The meetings on Tuesday with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison followed an announcement last week by the three countries of AUKUS, their new partnership.
2.The Taliban, which recently took power in Afghanistan, have reportedly asked the United Nations to allow their foreign minister to represent the country and deliver a speech at the U.N. General Assembly that is currently being held in New York.
3.The head of the United Nations has used the world’s largest diplomatic gathering to sound an alarm. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lectured leaders at the U.N. General Assembly about their responses to the pandemic and climate change. He said the world is on the edge of an abyss and people need to wake up.

1.Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has harvested rice at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, as part of an annual event. The Emperor reaped 20 plants with a sickle on Tuesday. He had planted two varieties of rice in the roughly 240-square-meter paddy in May.
2.Twin giant panda cubs born at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo are almost three months old and thriving. The twins, a male and a female, were born on June 23.
3. An NHK survey has found that there have been more than 40 cases of soil mound collapses across Japan in the past 24 years. NHK conducted the survey with municipalities across the nation this month, following a deadly mudslide in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, that killed 26 people in July.