月: 2022年6月

1.A Russian missile strike on a shopping mall in central Ukraine has killed at least 18 people. Ukraine’s president has described it as “one of the most daring terrorist attacks in European history.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the mall held no strategic value to justify the Russian attack. U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Monday said the Biden administration is finalizing another weapons package for Ukraine. It will include long-range air-defense systems specially requested by Zelenskyy.
2.Leaders at the G7 summit in Germany are accusing Russia of causing a global food crisis. They are also warning that new sanctions will be imposed, if the Russians continue their aggression in Ukraine.
3.Moldovan President Maia Sandu met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a visit to Ukraine on Monday,and toured heavily affected areas. Sandu tweeted that she was “left speechless by the level of violence and destruction” and that “It’s an unimaginable tragedy.”

1.Speaking in Germany, US President Joe Biden condemned an attack on Kyiv as an act of “barbarism.” That’s after a salvo of Russian missiles shattered weeks of relative calm in Ukraine’s capital. Officials say at least two residential buildings were struck and a nearby kindergarten was damaged.
2.A heat wave hit wide areas of Japan on Monday, while weather officials announced that the rainy season apparently ended unusually early in some regions. Meteorological Agency officials said the rainy season has ended in the Kanto-Koshin region, which includes Tokyo, as well as in the Tokai and southern Kyushu regions.
3.NHK has learned that Japan plans to provide a bout 200 million dollars to help address a global food crisis amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is expected to announce the plan when the G7 leaders discuss Ukraine and food security in Schloss Elmau, southern Germany, on Monday. Officials say the fund would probably be used to help build storage facilities for wheat and other crops in Ukraine, whose exports have been disrupted by Russia’s blockade of sea ports.

1.Humanitarian agencies are struggling to get help to areas devastated by Wednesday’s earthquake in Afghanistan. At least 1,000 people were killed and survivors living in remote villages are running out of essential supplies.
2.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the decision by leaders of the European Union to grant Ukraine membership candidate status is a victory for his country. Zelenskyy said, “Today you have adopted one of the most important decisions for Ukraine in all 30 years of independence of our state.”
3.An opinion poll has shown that about two thirds of respondents in Ukraine believe it will take at least six months for the country to win the war against Russia. The survey showed 93 percent of the respondents believe that Ukraine will be able to “repel Russia’s attack.”

1.People in Japan’s southern prefecture of Okinawa are observing the 77th anniversary of the end of the Japanese military’s combat against US forces in the closing days of World War Two. The Battle of Okinawa in 1945 left more than 200,000 people dead. One in four of the residents were killed.
2.The Myanmar military has moved the country’s ousted de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi from a secret detention location to a prison in the capital Naypyitaw. Aung San Suu Kyi was detained on February 1 last year when the military seized power from her elected government.
3.A Japanese government survey shows nearsightedness is starting to occur at an early age, affecting 6th-graders at the same level as adults. The national survey of children was the first to examine the length of the eyeball axis, between the cornea and retina, as a measure of nearsightedness.

1.Campaigning has officially started for Japan’s Upper House election. Voters head to the polls in about two-and-a-half weeks. Party leaders are already making their pitches to the public.
2.A strong earthquake in eastern Afghanistan early on Wednesday has reportedly killed at least 255 people. The US Geological Survey says the quake’s magnitude was estimated at 5.9. Its focus was about 10 kilometers below Khost Province.
3.Russia is still fighting for complete control of the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk. Its troops and artillery have failed so far to dislodge the Ukrainian defenders, who are holding on to the last stronghold in the besieged city of Severodonetsk.

1.Russia is concentrating its forces and firepower on the last Ukrainian stronghold in the eastern region of Luhansk. While the battle for Severodonetsk hits maximum intensity, Ukrainian forces are pushing to recapture the southern region of Kherson.
2.Japan Coast Guard officials say two Chinese government ships have entered Japan’s territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. The officials said the ships entered waters off Uotsuri Island at around 4:10 a.m. on Tuesday, Japan time. They added that the ships apparently tried to approach a Japanese fishing boat operating in the area.
3.The last British governor of Hong Kong says China is behaving “dishonorably and dishonestly” in relation to the Sino-British joint declaration on the territory. Chris Patten said that in 1997 he was hoping that the Chinese Communist Party would stand by its word and would continue to give Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy and defend its freedoms under the rule of law.

1.A strong earthquake has hit the Noto region in central Japan. No tsunami alert has been issued. The magnitude 5.0 quake struck Ishikawa Prefecture at 10:31 a.m. on Monday. In Suzu City, the quake registered upper 5 on Japan’s seismic intensity scale of zero to 7.
2.The central alliance of French President Emmanuel Macron has suffered a major setback in the final round of the parliamentary election and has lost its majority in the National Assembly. The French interior ministry says that Macron’s party and its coalition partners have secured 245 seats, down from 345 before the election.
3.A Japanese survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima has urged the world to reject what she calls the “dangerous myth” about nuclear weapons. Setsuko Thurlow, who lives in Canada, made the appeal in an online speech on Saturday at an event sponsored by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN.

1.Skepticism about the invasion of Ukraine appears to be on the rise in Russia, prompting elite businesspeople and oligarchs to leave the country. This is likely to exacerbate the war’s long-term damage to the nation’s economy. According to an intelligence update from the British defense ministry, the war has accelerated Russia’s long-term trajectory towards authoritarianism. Efforts are underway to criminalize speaking out against the invasion and the state.
2.Delegates from around the world have wrapped up a ministerial World Trade Organization conference in Switzerland. They’ve emerged from several days of tough negotiations with breakthrough deals on a range of subjects. High on the agenda was food security. It’s an issue that’s taken on added importance since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cut off grain shipments from Black Sea ports.
3.Policymakers at the Bank of Japan have agreed to keep their short-term benchmark interest rate in negative territory. BOJ Governor Kuroda Haruhiko has repeatedly indicated he will stay the course in a bid to boost Japan’s pandemic-battered economy.

1.Several European leaders are now visiting Ukraine. As Russian forces step up their offensive in the country’s east, the leaders want to convey a clear message. The European Union stands together in helping Ukraine. Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Kyiv by train Thursday morning.
2.Japan’s political parties are set to begin their campaigning for the Upper House election scheduled for July 10. The 150-day ordinary session of the Diet ended on Wednesday. Official campaigning for the Upper House race kicks off next Wednesday.
3.Policy-makers at the US Federal Reserve have spent months trying to overcome concerns about inflation. However, prices have risen beyond even their own expectations. Now, they are moving aggressively to bring them down. They decided to raise the benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point.

1.Key economic indicators show that China’s zero-COVID policy continued to weigh heavily on both consumption and production in the country in May. The National Bureau of Statistics say China’s retail sales last month fell 6.7 percent from a year earlier, marking a decrease for the third straight month.
2.Ukrainian leaders are pleading for outside help to repel Russian attacks that have cut off escape routes in a key eastern city. NATO leaders will soon meet to discuss how they can help. Russian troops have pushed deep into Severodonetsk, forcing hundreds to shelter in a chemical plant. They are calling on the Ukrainians to surrender. Local officials say constant bombardments mean mass escape is now impossible.
3.Prosecutors and police in Ukraine are investigating suspected war crimes that Russian troops are alleged to have committed in towns near the capital Kyiv. The troops previously occupied those towns.