News in brief
TEHRAN, Jan 13 (AFP) - Iran on Saturday rejected any modification of its nuclear deal with world powers after US President Donald Trump demanded tough new measures to keep the agreement alive.
Iran “will not accept any amendments in this agreement, be it now or in the future, and it will not allow any other issues to be linked to the JCPOA,” the foreign ministry said in a statement, using the 2015 deal's technical name.
Trump again waived nuclear-related sanctions on Friday -- as required every few months to stay in the agreement -- but demanded European partners work with the United States to “fix the deal's disastrous flaws, or the United States will withdraw”.
YANGON, Jan 13 (AFP) - Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has welcomed an unprecedented army admission that security forces carried out extra-judicial killings of Rohingya Muslims as a “positive step”, state-backed media reported Saturday.
After months of staunch denials of
SHANGHAI, Jan 13 (Reuters) - A Chinese salvage team recovered two bodies on Saturday from a stricken Iranian oil tanker, that was still blazing a week after it caught fire and was left adrift following a collision in the East China Sea, state news agency Xinhua reported.
The four members of the salvage team wore respirators to board the 'Sanchi', where they found two bodies on the deck. They tried to get to the living quarters but were driven back by temperatures on the burning ship of around 89 Celsius. The body of a mariner suspected to be from the ship was recovered on Monday. The rest of the crew, which included 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis, remains missing.
WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (AFP) - Donald Trump's doctor says he is in excellent health, after the 71-year-old president underwent his first medical examination since taking office, the White House said.
“The president's physical exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center went exceptionally well,” the doctor, Ronny Jackson, was quoted as saying in a statement. “The president is in excellent health,” Jackson added after the exam was conducted near Washington.
Trump, who has faced questions about his mental health, joked on the eve of his exam that the test had better go well -- for the sake of the stock market. “I think it's going to go very well,” he said, adding that he would be “surprised if it doesn't.”
Past presidential examinations have included vitals such as height, weight, body mass index, resting heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen saturation in the blood.
Amid questions about Trump's fitness for office, no psychiatric tests are planned.