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So far there has been no official confirmation from Washington that it has rejected Zarif's visa application.

The move against Carole Ghosn, who is not in Japan, followed her husband's flight to Lebanon last week while he was out on bail awaiting trial for alleged financial misconduct.

Indonesia's chief security minister, Mahfud MD, said that around 120 fishermen from the island of Java would be sent to the Natuna islands, some 1,000 km to the north.

About 30 soldiers stationed in Baghdad and Taji will be moved to Jordan and Kuwait, a defence ministry spokesman said.

A red flag was raised above the main dome of the Jamkaran mosque in Qom, a holy Shia city 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of Tehran.

The settlement also requires IKEA to meet with the advocacy organization, Parents Against Tip-overs, and broaden its outreach to consumers about the recall of IKEA dressers.

The earthquake struck just south of the island at a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometers (over 6 miles), according to the U.S. Geological Service. There was no tsunami threat, officials said.

President Donald Trump last month threatened to punish Paris for a new tax on tech giants such as Netflix and Amazon, unveiling sky-high retaliatory duties on $2.4 billion of French wines, makeup and leather handbags.

Carlos Ghosn skipped bail while awaiting trial on various financial misconduct allegations, and said he did so to escape injustice.

Deepening a crisis that has heightened fears of a major Middle East conflagration, Iran said it was taking another step back from commitments under a 2015 nuclear deal with six major powers.

Japanese investigators are probing how the man who was once the country's best-paid corporate executive managed to slip out of house arrest and dodge trial, causing a national embarrassment.

The unprecedented killing of Iran's top general in a US airstrike in Iraq has sent shockwaves across the Middle East, with Iran and its allies vowing revenge amid fears of an all-out war.

A man in his 20s was pronounced dead and a man in his 50s was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. Two others were being treated on the scene.

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, however, declined to discuss details of the alleged threat but said it was 'an intelligence-based assessment' that drove the US decision to target Qasem Soleimani.

The act aims to fix the tenure and extension of service of Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, which was previously suspended by the Supreme Court in August.

The flurry of quakes began the night of December 28, with a 4.7-magnitude quake followed by a 5.1-magnitude one that hit near Puerto Rico's south coast.