投稿者: tomoyasu

1. Russian authorities are trying to identify the people responsible for a deadly explosion on a subway train in St. Petersburg.
2. Japan is sending its ambassador back to South Korea after an almost 3-month absence due to a diplomatic row.
3. The Bank of Japan’s Tankan survey shows a growing number of Japanese employers feel their companies are understaffed.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump has stressed that China should work with the United States to put pressure on North Korea.
2. Frantic searches continue in a southwestern city in Columbia, which was hit by massive flooding early Saturday morning.
3. The Bank of Japan’s latest Tankan survey shows more corporate managers feel their business conditions are good.

1. The Chinese government has introduced a new ranking system for foreign nationals applying for working permits.
2. The prime ministers of India and Malaysia have decided to cooperate to strengthen economic ties, including investment in IT industry and infrastructure construction.
3. Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu has broken his own free skate world record, winning his second men’s world championship.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump has signed 2 executive orders that target unfair practices employed by U.S. trading partners.
2. Delegates from 115 countries have wrapped up the first round of talks on a proposed international treaty to ban nuclear weapons.
3. The Japanese government has lifted the evacuation order for most parts of a town in Fukushima Prefecture that was hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster.

1. South Korean prosecutors have arrested former president Park Geun-hye after receiving court approval for an arrest warrant.
2. The governments of Malaysia and North Korea have announced an agreement relating to the body of Kim Jong Nam.
3. Iraqi authorities suspect the Islamic State militant group carried out a suicide truck bombing in Baghdad that killed at least 17 people.

1. South Korea’s ousted president is at a court hearing that will decide whether she should be arrested. Park Geun-hye is facing a number of changes in connection to a corruption scandal.
2. The Japanese government is to extend for 2 more years the unilateral sanctions against North Korea that are set to expire next month.
3. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Izumi Nakamitsu of Japan as the next Undersecretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs.

1. U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to overhaul the measures for tackling climate change that were introduced by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
2. Britain will give notice on Wednesday of its intention to leave the European Union.
3. Groups of Japanese researchers say they have successfully transplanted iPS cells derived from a donor into a patient suffering from a senior eye disease.

1. The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a group seeking the removal of a statue symbolizing those referred to as “comfort women” in the state of California.
2. Negotiations on a treaty to legally ban nuclear weapons began at the U.N. on Monday without the participation of nuclear powers.
3. Seven high school students and a teacher have been confirmed dead following Monday’s avalanche at a ski resort north of Tokyo.

1. The conference to negotiate a legally binding treaty to ban nuclear weapons begins at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday.
2. A survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima has called for the creation of a new global treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons.
3. Multiple Malaysian media outlets say that the body of Kim Jong Nam was taken out of a hospital in Kuala Lumpur and transferred to another place in the country.

1. European Union leaders have vowed to strengthen the bloc’s unity on the 60th anniversary of a landmark treaty that laid the foundation for the current institution.
2. Media reports in Iraq say more than 130 civilians were killed after an airstrike carried out by the U.S.-led coalition trying to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State militant group.
3. A man who was abducted by North Korea and returned to Japan 24 years later spoke to NHK on the 20th anniversary of the founding of the group representing abductees’ families.