投稿者: tomoyasu

1. France’s public broadcaster has projected that Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will compete in a presidential election runoff next month.
2. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump have discussed the North Korean situation over the telephone amid heightened tensions surrounding the country.
3. A land mine blast has killed a U.S. truce monitor in eastern Ukraine.

1. Japanese destroyers and a U.S. aircraft carrier will begin a joint drill on Sunday in the Pacific, off the Philippines.
2. French voters will cast their ballots on Sunday in the first round of the presidential election.
3. Japan plans to expand its multiple-entry visa program to China’s growing middle class as part of efforts to attract more overseas tourists.

1. Finance leaders from the Group of 20 major economies have agreed that the global economy is recovering, but that downsize risks persist.
2. An advisory panel to the Japanese government has finalized its proposals on Emperor Akihito’s abdication. Among the proposals is a one-time legislative measure.
3. U.S. analysts’ report says that new photos indicate a nuclear test site in North Korea remains capable of conducting a test any time.

1. The U.N. Security Council has unanimously adopted a press statement strongly condemning North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch.
2. French investigators have searched the home of the suspect in Thursday’s deadly shooting in central Paris.
3. The finance ministers and central bank chiefs of the Group of 20 economies, including the United States, China and Japan, are meeting in Washington.

1. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Wednesday the USS Carl Vinson and other ships are now heading to the Korean Peninsula.
2. North Korean officials say Japanese women who went to the North with their Korean husbands have formed a social group.
3. A global chemical weapons watchdog says the highly toxic nerve gas sarin or a similar substance was used in an attack in Syria earlier this month.

1. Japan and the United States have denounced North Korea for exploiting its people and its nuclear and missile programs. They called for increased efforts at the U.N. Security Council to address the issue.
2. Japan and the United States have agreed to promote dialogue in three areas including common strategies in trade and investment rules.
3. Japanese electronics maker Sharp says it plans to invest in Toshiba’s chip business with parent company Hon Hai Precision Industry, also called Foxconn.

1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is meeting with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence who is now in Japan.
2. A North Korean envoy in charge of normalizing with Japan has dismissed the issue of Japanese abducted by North Korea.
3. About 70 members of a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force engineering unit have left South Sudan after participating in a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

1. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his government will cooperate with China and Russia as well as the United States and South Korea to prevent North Korea from further provocation.
2. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed victory in Sunday’s landmark referendum.
3. China’s gross domestic product shows the country’s economy is continuing to improve.

1. North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Sunday, but it appears to have failed.
2. One year has passed since the most devastating earthquake occurred among a series of tremors in and around Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto.
3. Turkey is holding a referendum on Sunday on whether to grant sweeping new powers to the president.

1. North Korea has held a military parade showcasing a new type of intermediate ballistic missile and other arsenal.
2. The U.S. government has declined to designate China as a “currency manipulator,” but will keep the country on its “monitoring list,” along with 5 other economies.