The defense chiefs of Japan and the United States have confirmed the importance of their joint military exercises, as well as Japan-US-South Korea drills, for regional security.
police in the eastern US state of Maryland say 5 people are dead and several others wounded in a shooting in a newspaper office.
China's government has released a white paper saying the rise of unilateralism and trade protectionism is posing a challenge to the World Trade Organization.
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Key words : defense chief confirmed
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The defense chiefs of Japan and the United States have confirmed the importance of their joint military exercises, as well as Japan-US-South Korea drills, for regional security.
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera and US Secretary of Defense James Mattis met in Tokyo on Friday morning for the first time since the US-North Korea summit.
Onodera said in a joint news briefing that the 2 countries will seek North Korea's abandonment of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction, including biological and chemical weapons, in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner.
He added that they will work with the international community to achieve this goal.
Onodera referred to the decision by the US and South Korea to suspend their joint military drills as a step in support of their diplomatic efforts.
He also said Japan and the US reconfirmed that they would cooperate with other countries to monitor transfers of goods on the high seas to North Korean vessels from foreign ships. The suspected smuggling violates UN Security Council sanctions on the North.
Key words : kremlin moving
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Key words : US police 5 people are
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US police say 5 people are dead and several others were wounded in a shooting in Annapolis in the eastern state of Maryland on Thursday.
The incident occurred at a building that houses offices of the local Capital Gazette newspaper.
Video footage shows many people fleeing from the building.
Police say they have detained a suspect in connection with the deaths.
Police are searching the building and areas close to it. They are also calling on residents not to go near the building.
Key words : white house kremlin
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The White House and the Kremlin say US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Finland's capital, Helsinki, on July 16th.
This will be their first official meeting since July of last year. The 2 leaders are expected to discuss a broad array of issues, including Syria and Ukraine.
The US and Russian governments timed the summit to coincide with Trump's tour of Europe. Trump will attend a NATO summit in Belgium on July 11th and 12th before visiting Britain.
US Democrats and media outlets allege that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. They accuse Russia of interfering in the 2016 presidential election campaign to tip the vote in Trump's favor. Russia denies any meddling.
But both Trump and Putin stress the need to improve bilateral ties, with the Russian leader thinking it will help to build up his country's economy.
Attention is focused on whether the meeting will improve US-Russia relations, which are described as being at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.
Key words : chinese released white paper
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China's government has released a white paper saying the rise of unilateralism and trade protectionism is posing a challenge to the World Trade Organization.
The Commerce Ministry on Thursday released a white paper describing the country's engagement with the WTO and showing trade and investment data for the past 17 years.
It is the first of its kind since China joined the organization in 2001.
Beijing has been criticized by Washington for unilaterally profiting from trade with the US, which has huge trade deficits with China.
The white paper defends China's policy. It notes that the country is the world's second largest importer and greatly contributes to global economic growth.
The paper says the rise of unilateralism and protectionism is a challenge to the multilateral trading system, which it calls the core principle of the WTO.
Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen told reporters that Beijing would be willing to hold negotiations if China's way of trading is deemed in violation of WTO rules.
The remarks were apparently directed at the Trump administration, which announced high tariffs on Chinese imports on the grounds of China's violation of intellectual property rights.
Key words : european divided
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European Union leaders are divided over reforms to the regional bloc's migration system.
In a 2-day summit that opened in Brussels on Thursday, the leaders are discussing plans to build facilities to distinguish refugees needing protection from economic migrants.
All EU member countries agree on the need to stem the flow of migrants and refugees into the bloc, but they are at odds over how to reform the migration system.
The Italian government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is taking a tough line on the issue. He says Italy has been forced to shoulder a disproportionate burden and is demanding that other EU members share the costs and responsibilities.
Migrants and refugees frequently enter Italy from North Africa via the Mediterranean and then move to other EU countries.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been under pressure from within her coalition government to find a way at the summit to stem the influx of migrants entering Germany by way of Italy and other countries.
Central European countries such as Hungary and Poland continue to refuse to accept migrants and refugees.
Key words : Fukushima nuclear spent
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The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says work to remove spent nuclear fuel from a cooling pool at one of its reactors may be delayed.
A total of 566 fuel units remain in the cooling pool at the No.3 reactor, which suffered a meltdown in 2011. Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, planned to start removing the fuel as early as this autumn, as part of the decommissioning of the nuclear complex.
But on Thursday, TEPCO revealed the control board of a crane used in the removal malfunctioned during a test run last month. It blamed a voltage error and said the board will be replaced.
The company said the test run may be delayed by one or 2 months, pushing back the start date for fuel removal.
TEPCO's chief decommissioning officer, Akira Ono, says he takes the glitch seriously as it shows key equipment was not handled properly.
He says that although safety must come first, his team still aims to stick to the original timetable and start the removal of nuclear fuel by around the middle of the current fiscal year, which ends in March next year.
Key words : internal affair unemployment
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The Internal Affairs Ministry says Japan's unemployment rate stood at 2.2 percent in May, down 0.3 percentage point from the previous month.
Meanwhile, the ratio of job offers to applicants rose to 1.6, up 0.01 point from the previous month.
That means there were 160 job openings for every 100 people looking for work, the highest ratio since January 1974.
Key words : report says politicians
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A report says 132 politicians and political activists have been killed in Mexico since campaigning for next month's elections began last September.
Mexicans will go to the polls on July 1st to choose their president, congress members and other officeholders. 3,400 political posts are up for grabs.
A Mexican consulting firm released a report on the period up to Tuesday. It says 48 of the victims were political candidates and 90 belonged to opposition parties.
The report says politicians were threatened or physically harmed in 548 incidents -- 7 percent of them at the federal level, 22 percent at state levels and 71 percent at regional levels.
Mexico is seeing a surge in violence involving drug cartels. A record more than 25,000 homicides were reported last year.
An expert in charge of the report describes the elections as the most violent in Mexico's history.
The expert says regional governments handle lucrative public works projects and drug cartels are trying to take control of them.
Key words : south and agreed joint team
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South and North Korea have agreed to field joint teams in 3 sports at the upcoming Asian Games in Indonesia.
The agreement was reached on Thursday in Jakarta at a meeting attended by officials from the 2 Koreas, the Olympic Council of Asia, and the organizing committee of the Asian Games.
Seoul and Pyongyang had earlier agreed to have their athletes march under a unified flag at the opening and closing ceremonies of the games, which will kick off in Indonesia in August. They had also agreed to form unified teams for some sports.
This was in response to a joint declaration signed by their leaders in April.
The declaration says the 2 sides will demonstrate solidarity by jointly participating in international sports events.
Participants at Thursday's meeting decided that the unified teams will compete in 6 events across 3 sports -- women's basketball, canoeing, and rowing.
The Asian Council released a statement saying it will be the first time the 2 Koreas have formed joint teams for the Asian Games, and that the forthcoming games will be "historic."
Key words : roman
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The newly appointed Japanese cardinal for the Roman Catholic Church says he is hopeful that Pope Francis will visit Japan.
Manyo Maeda took up the post along with 13 other cardinals in a ceremony at Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on Thursday.
The ceremony was followed by a reception where clerics and family members congratulated the new appointees.
Maeda told NHK that he asked Pope Francis during the ceremony to visit Japan, and the Pope responded positively. Maeda added that he is optimistic about a Papal visit as Japanese organizations are issuing their own invitations.
Pope Francis has a strong interest in the abolition of nuclear weapons.
The Japanese government has been asking him to visit Japan to help the international efforts to achieve a world without nuclear arms.
Pope John Paul the Second visited Japan in 1981.
Maeda, who is 69, is from the western Japanese prefecture of Nagasaki, which experienced an atomic-bombing in 1945 along with Hiroshima. He has been the archbishop of Osaka since 2014.
Cardinals are the 2nd highest-ranking clerics in the Roman Catholic Church after the Pope and act as his top advisors. Maeda is the 6th Japanese cardinal and the first in 9 years.
Key words : weather official rainy
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Weather officials say it appears that rainy season in Tokyo and the Kanto-Koshin region has ended.
The end of the season came 7 days earlier than last year and 22 days earlier than average -- the earliest on record.
Meteorological agency officials say a high pressure system brought clear skies over the region. Sunny weather is forecast for the coming days.
Key words : soccer world cup
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In the soccer World Cup finals in Russia, Japan advanced to the knockout phase despite a 1-0 loss to Poland in their final group-stage match on Thursday.
In the Group H results table, Japan tied with Senegal at 4 points from one win, one loss, and one draw. But the Samurai Blue placed second on fair play points.
This is the first time since the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa and the 3rd time overall that Japan has made it to the round of 16.
In the other Group H match, Colombia beat Senegal 1-0, finishing 1st with 6 points from 2 wins and one loss and securing a spot in the last 16.
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