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- Millions of people have taken to city streets across the United States opposing the agenda of new President Donald Trump.
- Leaders of Europe’s right and far-right parties have gathered in Germany to present a united front ahead of major elections later this year.
- The United Nations cultural agency has strongly condemned Islamic State militants for further destroying cultural assets in the central Syrian city of Palmyra.
- Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. In his inauguration address, Trump made clear his stance to place top priority on U.S. interests.
- The administration of new U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that the U.S. is withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.
- South Korea’s special prosecutor has arrested the culture minister and a former senior official in connection with the scandal surrounding President Park Geun-hye.
- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has stressed that he will bring about changes to the United States on the eve of his inauguration.
- Officials with China’s National Bureau of Statistics say the economy has expanded but the pace of growth continued to slow in 2016.
- Japan’s government will soon notify New Zealand that it has completed its domestic procedures for implementing the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.
- A special prosecutors’ team in South Korea has requested an arrest warrant for Culture Minister Cho Yoon-sun. She is suspected of abusing her power.
- Struggling Japanese electronics giant Toshiba has come up with another plan to strengthen its capital base.
- The Iraqi government says its forces are in “full control” of eastern Mosul, the largest stronghold of the Islamic State militant group.
- British Prime Minister Theresa May says her country will seek a complete withdrawal from the European Union.
- Japanese companies will likely review their business strategies for Europe as May says her country will take a “hard Brexit”.
- Italian Antonio Tajani has been elected President of the European Parliament.
- Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to work for peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Leaders from around the world are expected to discuss how Donald Trump’s policies will impact the global economy at the annual meeting of the world economic forum in Davos.
- People in Japan are remembering the victims of a powerful earthquake that devastated the western city of Kobe and its surrounding areas 22 years ago.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is on his way to Vietnam, the last leg of his 4-nation tour of the Asia-Pacific region.
- Japan and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to extend a Japanese company’s interests in an oil field off the Middle Eastern country.
- U.S. organizers have held a rehearsal for the coming inauguration ceremony for President-elect Donald Trump.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to reaffirm the importance of maintaining the rule of law in the disputed South China Sea during his summit with Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo.
- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has again suggested that he may reevaluate the “One China” policy.
- Japanese diplomats working in Africa will meet to discuss ways to help Japanese businesses procure natural resources from the resource-rich continent.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Japan and Australia should advance free trade and boost collaboration on regenerative medicine, artificial intelligence and other fields.
- The incoming press secretary for the White House says that President-elect Donald Trump is likely to urge national unity in his inaugural speech next week.
- A U.S. federal grand jury has indicted 3 former executives of Japanese auto parts firm Takata on wire fraud and conspiracy charges over the firm’s airbags.
- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of defense, James Mattis, has pointed to Russia and China as key security challenges.
- Japanese and Russian ministers have agreed to draw up a work schedule around the end of March to implement energy deals signed during President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Japan last month.
- Researchers in Japan say they have succeeded in creating a small “intestine” from human embryonic stem cells.