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Working-level talks between the United States, Russia, and Ukraine were held in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. Special Envoy for the Middle East Witkoff and U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Kushner at the Kremlin in Moscow on the 12th. TASS reported. It is believed that they held talks regarding peace in Ukraine and the security system in Europe.
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Whitkoff and others participated in working-level talks between the United States, Russia, and Ukraine on the 10th and 11th in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Based on the results of the talks, Kushner said he would meet with Putin in Russia and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Ireland on the 12th.
Russian Presidential Advisor Medinsky said after the talks on the 11th that the European security system was a "central theme." According to the US news website Axios, the US side has asked Russia to come up with a new proposal for a future security agreement with Europe. It is said that the plan is expected to include measures by Russia to ease tensions.

Reuters reported that senior White House officials are discussing replacing Secretary of Commerce Lutnick. Nvidia CEO Huang has been under fire over his handling of spying allegations, and Lutnick has opposed and postponed imposing export restrictions on companies suspected of smuggling semiconductors to China. There has been growing criticism from Congress over the lack of regulatory measures and Nvidia's oversight of exports to China.

According to Reuters, senior administration officials are discussing whether to replace Secretary of Commerce Lutnick. The US president described Huang as having "done a great job" and insisted that Apple's Chairman Cook was the only one to replace him. Nvidia announced that CEO Huang will step down and that CFO Colette Kress will serve as interim CEO. WSJ reported that the board of directors is preparing to fire CEO Huang.

A group of Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors and others held a protest rally in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome on the 12th in response to the government's consideration of exceptions for the introduction of nuclear weapons in the revision of three security-related documents. He appealed to the government to "observe the three non-nuclear principles."

On the 12th, the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan Restoration Party, and the Democratic Party of Japan jointly submitted a bill to the House of Representatives to reduce the number of members of the House of Representatives. The mainstay of the bill is a reduction of 31 seats in proportional representation, and the aim is to pass it during the current Diet session. The proportion will be reduced from 176 to 145, and the Chugoku and Shikoku blocks will be combined into a total of 10 blocks. These include stricter reinstatement selection criteria and an increase in the amount of deposit refunds.

A federal judge has ordered a halt to construction on the Arc de Triomphe, which President Trump plans to construct near the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery. Relatives of former President Kennedy have also joined the lawsuit, calling for construction to be halted.

On the 12th, the House of Representatives Constitution Review Committee held an intensive discussion on Article 9 of the Constitution. The Liberal Democratic Party calls for the necessity of clearly stating the Self-Defense Forces and national defense provisions, while the Japan Restoration Party calls for the deletion of Clause 2 and the creation of a national defense force. The Democratic Party of Japan called for a summary of views within the ruling party, and the Komeito Party proposed explicitly stating democratic control.