Asylum to be stripped from fraudsters who vacation in countries they ‘fled’ if GOP lawmaker’s bill passes

April 9, 2026 12:11pm EDT / Fox News

Hamideh Soleimani Afshar was arrested by ICE after reportedly returning to Iran at least four times since gaining asylum

By Charles Creitz, Fox News

EXCLUSIVE: A top Republican moved Thursday to block asylum claims from foreigners who return to their home countries, introducing legislation after family members of deceased Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Qassem Soleimani were found to be living in Los Angeles.

Soleimani’s niece, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, and her daughter were arrested by ICE last weekend, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio highlighted Afshar’s “outspoken support [for] the Iranian regime” and DHS reporting that her 2019 asylum claim was fraudulent, due in part to several trips back to the country she purported to flee.

Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., who is also running for the GOP nomination for governor of the Badger State, echoed DHS’ characterization of Afshar’s asylum claim as fraudulent in introducing the SAFER Act, or the “Stopping Asylum Fraudsters Enforcement and Removal Act.”

Tiffany said the bill ensures the federal asylum system is reserved only for foreigners with legitimate claims of persecution.

GOP WHIP: ‘AMERICA-HATING TERRORISTS’ SHOULD LOSE CITIZENSHIP UNDER SCAM ACT

IRGC Commander Qassem Soleimani participates in a meeting with leaders in Tehran.a(Press office of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei/Getty Images)

The secretary of Homeland Security and the attorney general would be prohibited from granting asylum to anyone who returns to their home country, while also being empowered to terminate asylum status and denaturalize asylees who voluntarily return while living in the U.S.

“If someone claims they are fleeing danger and seeking asylum in the U.S., they should not be turning around and vacationing in the very country they said they had to escape,” Tiffany told Fox News Digital.

“Those who are truly fleeing danger don’t book round-trip tickets back to it.”

Afshar was granted asylum in 2019 during the first Trump administration and was later given a green card by the Biden administration, despite returning to Iran at least four times in the interim.

Under the bill, an asylee could legally return to their home country without risk of federal consequences only if the State Department certifies that a legitimate transfer of power has occurred and the original threat prompting that person’s asylum claim has been resolved.

FAMILIES OF IRAN’S ELITE LIVE LAVISHLY ABROAD WHILE ORDINARY CITIZENS SUFFER AT HOME

Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., cheers as Donald Trump is announced as the winner of Wisconsin’s electoral college votes during a joint session of Congress in the House chamber on Monday, January 6, 2025(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images)

In the case that a migrant or asylee has no nationality, their claim will be analyzed based on their most recent “habitual residence.”

“The SAFER Act stops asylum fraudsters from exploiting the system and ensures they are removed from the United States,”Tiffany said.

Earlier this month, the State Department terminated the legal status of Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, the daughter of a former senior Iranian official, and her husband.

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Both are no longer in the U.S. and are barred from reentry.

Fox News Digital’s Sophia Compton contributed to this report.

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Acting AG Todd Blanche sends series of memos to staff marking his first official day

2026-04-09 1:48 PM ET / CNN

By Paula Reid
Updated Apr 9, 2026, 1:51 PM ET
PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2026, 1:48 PM ET

US Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche during a news conference about the Trump administration’s anti-fraud efforts at the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, April 7.

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche sent a series of memos to Justice Department staffers Thursday marking his first official day running the agency.

In a memo to the staff obtained by CNN, he wrote, “Our mission here at the Department remains the same today as it was yesterday. President Trump has promised a safe American and will continue to deliver on that promise.”

He also thanked former Attorney General Pam Bondi “for her friendship, service, and selfless dedication to our department and country.”

In a separate memo to his staff in the deputy attorney general’s office he revealed he will officially move into the attorney general’s fifth floor office on Monday.

Blanche also on Thursday announced several staffing changes in his office — tapping two loyal staffers to key roles. The acting attorney general posted on X that Trent McCotter will now serve as principal associate deputy attorney general and that Colin McDonald, who currently serves as assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s new fraud division, will also continue to help in the deputy attorney general’s office while continuing his work in his other role.

Bondi was informed by President Donald Trump last Wednesday, during the short drive from the White House to the Supreme Court, that she was being removed as attorney general, CNN reported.

“Nobody has any idea why the attorney general is no longer the attorney general and I’m the acting attorney general except for President Trump,” Blanche said at his first public press conference Tuesday.

This story is breaking and will be updated.

What’s in the Iran war ceasefire? The two sides can’t seem to even agree on that.

2026-04-09T18:00:21.834Z / CNN

Analysis by

Aaron Blake

PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2026, 2:00 PM ET

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Demonstrators outside the White House protest against military action in Iran after President Donald Trump said that he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire.

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This weekend’s talks to end the war with Iran are some of the most high-stakes negotiations not just of Donald Trump’s presidencies, but of recent American history.

One big problem, though: The US can’t even seem to agree with Iran on what they agreed to for the ceasefire.

The two-week truce seemed to come together rapidly on Tuesday, just hours before Trump’s 8 p.m. ET deadline for Iran to make a deal or else face the death of its “whole civilization.”

And if the ceasefire seemed a bit hasty on Tuesday, it looks a lot more so today.

The first two days of the truce not only haven’t gone smoothly — the Strait of Hormuz has remained a logjam, and attacks are still raining in the region — but they’ve also been marked by major disagreements about the terms of the agreement.

All of which would seem to augur quite poorly for negotiations over a more permanent peace.

Let’s recap.

Lebanon

People inspect the aftermath of Israeli strikes on Beirut on Thursday.

Marwan Naamani/picture-alliance/dpa/AP

Perhaps the biggest problem looming over the ceasefire isn’t what’s happening in Iran. It’s the fact that Israel unleashed extensive attacks against Iran’s Hezbollah allies in Lebanon on Wednesday.

Iran says this violates the ceasefire; the United States and Israel say Lebanon wasn’t part of the deal.

When Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif first announced the ceasefire on Tuesday, he specified that Lebanon was a part of it.

He wrote on X that all parties had “agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere [including Lebanon and elsewhere], EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.”

But Israel resumed its offensive in Lebanon in the hours after the ceasefire was announced and disputed that Lebanon was part of the deal.

Wednesday morning, Trump told PBS News Hour that Lebanon was not included in the ceasefire. “Because of Hezbollah, they were not included in the deal,” he said, calling what was happening in Lebanon a “separate skirmish.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed that “Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire” from the briefing room podium that afternoon.

But Tehran is still insisting that what Pakistan’s prime minister said was right, with multiple high-ranking Iranian officials saying Israel is violating the ceasefire.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Thursday called the Lebanon strikes “a flagrant violation of the initial ceasefire agreement and a dangerous indicator of deceit and lack of commitment to potential accords.”

Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday tried to chalk up the dispute to “a legitimate misunderstanding.”

But importantly, Iran is getting some backup from Pakistan — the intermediary the United States chose to work through. Pakistan is standing by the claim that Lebanon was part of the deal. And it continued to do so Thursday morning.

In a statement, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs cast what’s happening in Lebanon as “serious violations of the ceasefire.”

And the plot has thickened even more. CNN confirmed Thursday morning that top Trump administration officials had been in contact with Pakistan throughout the day Tuesday about what the US wanted to see from a ceasefire and had largely signed off on specific elements of Sharif’s post.

Some had speculated that one of Sharif’s posts was drafted by the United States, given it was initially posted with the header “Draft – Pakistan’s PM Message on X.” The White House denies it was involved in writing the post and said the president didn’t see it until it was released.

There are two main possible explanations. One is that Lebanon was originally supposed to be part of the deal, but Israel didn’t want that. The other is that Vance is right that this is a mix-up.

One interesting development: CNN reported Thursday that Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Wednesday, during which the US president asked the Israeli prime minister to scale back attacks in Lebanon and enter into negotiations with Lebanon about disarming Hezbollah.

The Strait of Hormuz

Vessels and boats are off the coast of Musandam governorate in Oman, overlooking the Strait of Hormuz, on Wednesday.

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One of the most striking aspects of the ceasefire was that it seemed to give Iran something it never had before the war: control of the Strait of Hormuz (at least temporarily).

As CNN’s Fareed Zakaria noted, that would be a very big deal. Iran has shown just how much leverage it has by holding the world economy hostage in the critical waterway.

Iran said in a statement Tuesday night that passage through the strait “will be possible via coordination with Iran’s Armed Forces and with due consideration of technical limitations.”

And Trump seemed to agree to that. He posted Iran’s statement to Truth Social Tuesday night. And while he said in his initial announcement of the ceasefire that it was conditional on the “complete, immediate, and safe opening” of the strait, he notably didn’t demand that Iran relinquish control.

Indeed, in an interview with ABC News on Wednesday morning, he spoke about “a joint venture” in which the US and Iran would charge tolls for ships to pass.

But by Wednesday afternoon, after it became clear that the strait was anything but free-flowing, Leavitt seemed to suggest the deal was that it be completely open. She said the US would negotiate “so long as the Strait of Hormuz remains open with no limitations or delays,” while also disputing that the strait wasn’t open.

The 10-point plan

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House on Monday.

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Trump in his statement Tuesday night cited “a 10-point proposal from Iran,” which he called “a workable basis on which to negotiate.”

But then Iran began sharing a 10-point list that looked a whole lot like a grab bag of Iranian demands — the kinds of things the United States could never agree to.

By Wednesday afternoon, Leavitt said Trump had been referring to a different 10-point proposal from Iran that was more serious.

“They put forward a more reasonable and entirely different and condensed plan to the president and his team,” Leavitt said. “President Trump and the team determined the new modified plan was a workable basis on which to negotiate and to align it with our own 15-point proposal.”

But Leavitt and the White House have not offered details about what is supposedly in this updated proposal.

And meanwhile, Iran keeps making clear it believes the 10 points it shared publicly are what Trump was referring to. On Wednesday afternoon, it pointed to supposed violations of the 10-point proposal, including via Israel’s strikes in Lebanon and the Trump administration saying Iran will have no right to enrich uranium.

“Now, the very ‘workable basis on which to negotiate’ has been openly and clearly violated,” read a message posted by Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Wednesday, “even before the negotiations began.”

Indeed, it’s looking more like the supposed “workable basis” for a big deal to end the war wasn’t very workable at all.

U.S. to lead ceasefire talks between Lebanon and Israel in D.C. as Lebanon emerges as potential spoiler to Iran deal

2026-04-09 15:44 EDT / CBS News

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Updated on: April 9, 2026 / 3:57 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington— The U.S. is convening hastily arranged diplomatic talks next week in Washington, D.C., in an effort to craft a ceasefire in Lebanon, where Israeli troops have been pounding Iranian-backed Hezbollah targets with airstrikes and also killing Lebanese civilians.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s office is planning the three-way talks, which will be led by U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa along with Lebanese Ambassador Nada Hamadeh Moawad and Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter, according to two sources familiar with the matter and one Lebanese official. The sources described this as a discussion about how to launch direct talks.

A State Department official confirmed to CBS News that representatives from the two sides will meet at the department next week.

Shortly after Israel and the U.S. began the war with Iran, Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel in a show of solidarity with Tehran. Israel then launched a new offensive against Hezbollah, and invaded much of southern Lebanon.

Lebanon has emerged as one of the thorniest issues complicating the nascent diplomacy with the U.S. and Iran. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi — who is expected to join upcoming talks in Islamabad — accused the U.S. of letting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kill diplomacy.

Multiple diplomatic sources told CBS News that President Trump had been told that the ceasefire announced Thursday would apply to the Middle East region, and he agreed that included Lebanon. Mediators believed the ceasefire to include Lebanon, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that it did. Araghchi also said it was included.

On the day of the ceasefire, a White House official told CBS News that Israel had also agreed with the terms of the deal that Pakistan had helped to broker.

However, the U.S. position shifted following a phone call between Netanyahu and Mr. Trump. Two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News that the changing U.S. positions, and the disjointed remnant of the regime in Iran, are making the diplomacy highly complex.

Vice President JD Vance told reporters on Wednesday that there was a “legitimate misunderstanding” about the terms of the ceasefire, but he placed blame on the Iranians for misunderstanding that it included their proxy forces in Lebanon.

But Vance also nodded to an American desire to see Israel scale back its offensive in Lebanon. Israel, as he put it, offered to “check themselves a little bit in Lebanon.”

On Thursday, Netanyahu said he had agreed to allow Israeli diplomats to accept the Lebanese government’s request to hold talks. He did not provide specifics, and insisted there is no ceasefire in Lebanon.

Vance has emerged as a senior leader in the diplomacy with Iran. He was the most senior U.S. official to meet with Omani mediators who unsuccessfully tried to broker a deal to avert the U.S. and Israeli strikes that kicked off the war on Feb. 28. U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner have twice led rounds of diplomacy with Iran in the past 10 months, only to have those efforts cut short by U.S. military action.

Multiple diplomatic sources told CBS News that Iran welcomed Vance’s involvement in particular because of Iranian distrust of Witkoff and Kushner. Two sources told CBS News that it was Witkoff’s idea to involve the vice president.

世界自然保护联盟：帝企鹅等列为“濒危”物种

2026年4月9日 23:42 / 联合早报

英国南极调查局于4月8日发布的照片显示，南极洲哈雷研究站的一对帝企鹅和一只幼崽。 （法新社）

世界自然保护联盟发布公报说，由于南极地区的气候变化，帝企鹅和南极毛皮海狮已列为“濒危”物种。

星期四（4月9日）发布的公报说，在世界自然保护联盟濒危物种红色名录中，帝企鹅（Emperor Penguins）的评级已从“近危”调整为“濒危”，而南极毛皮海狮（Antarctic fur seal）的评级则从“无危”调整至“濒危”。

帝企鹅在严冬时节于海冰上繁殖，雄鸟依靠平坦的冰面将卵固定在脚下保温。海冰也为雏鸟提供栖息地，并在它们换毛、羽毛尚未完全防水之前，为它们提供庇护。但气候变化导致海冰稳定性下降，造成春季海冰消融或提前融化。

自2016年以来，海冰面积一直处于历史低位，其对帝企鹅的影响已得到充分证实。卫星图像显示，仅在2009年至2018年间，就有约2万只成年帝企鹅——约占其总数的10%——消失。

法新社引述法国国家科学研究中心（CNRS）的科学家巴布罗（Christophe Barbraud）说：“帝企鹅与海冰和冰盖密切相关，然而，自2016年至2017年以来，南极洲周围的海冰范围显著减少，如果没有海冰，帝企鹅的生存将面临巨大挑战。”

研究：食物短缺导致非洲企鹅数量锐减
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新华社引述公报说，南极地区的气候变化正导致海冰提前破裂或消融，这是帝企鹅种群数量下降的主要驱动因素。世界自然保护联盟预计到21世纪80年代，帝企鹅种群数量将减少一半。卫星图像显示，仅在2009年至2018年间，帝企鹅种群数量就减少约10%，相当于2万多只成年帝企鹅消失。

毛皮海狮减半

公报还指出，南极毛皮海狮种群数量从1999年估计的218.7万只成熟个体下降到2025年的94.4万只，降幅50%以上。其种群持续衰退的主因仍是气候变化，海洋温度上升和海冰面积缩减正迫使磷虾向更深、更冷的水域迁移，从而减少南极毛皮海狮的食物来源。

世界自然保护联盟总干事阿吉拉尔（Grethel Aguilar）说，帝企鹅和南极毛皮海狮在濒危物种红色名录中的评级变动，为气候变化现状敲响警钟。“这些重要发现应促使我们在社会各界及各层级立即采取行动，果断应对气候变化。”

世界自然保护联盟濒危物种红色名录从20世纪60年代开始编制，名录将物种生存状况划分为九个等级，分别为灭绝、野外灭绝、极危、濒危、易危、近危、无危、数据缺乏、未予评估。

北京是美伊停火关键推手？中国外交部不证实不否认

2026年4月9日 23:40 / 联合早报 沈泽玮 北京特派员

美国白宫证实，美中两国政府高层曾就美伊停火协议进行对话。中国外交部对此既不证实也不否认，并透露外长王毅同相关国家外长先后通话26次。

在美国总统特朗普威胁摧毁伊朗的通牒到期前最后一刻，美伊星期三（4月8日）宣布同意停火两周，伊朗重开霍尔木兹海峡。美伊预计星期五（10日）将于巴基斯坦伊斯兰堡举行谈判。

与伊朗接壤的巴基斯坦在美伊之间斡旋，促成了临时停火安排。伊朗出口原油最大买家——中国，是否也悄悄在幕后参与推动伊朗与美国谈判，同样引人关注。

美国白宫新闻秘书莱维特星期三在记者会上回答媒体提问时证实，美中两国政府高层之间，确实曾就伊朗问题进行对话。特朗普在接受法新社电访时也表示，相信中国促成伊朗参与停火协议谈判。他说：“我听说是的。他们参与了。”

巴基斯坦总理谢里夫同天直接在X平台上以中文发贴文，感谢包括中国在内的几个“兄弟国家”，为促成停火提供支持。

英国《卫报》的报道则披露称，中国直接劝说伊朗接受停火协议并提供担保，承诺伊朗领导人未来赴谈判时不会遭到暗杀。

报道引述巴基斯坦官员称：“中国发挥了主要作用。他们成为停火协议的担保方，并承诺美国将遵守协议，而且在伊斯兰堡举行的谈判也将顺利进行。”

伊朗驻中国大使法兹里星期三在驻华使馆举行的记者会上明确表示，希望中国、俄罗斯和联合国等能成为地区和平的“安全担保方”。

多家美国媒体星期三在中国外交部例行记者会上追问，北京是否推动伊朗与美国就停火协议进行谈判，以及会否考虑向伊朗提供安全担保。

中国外交部发言人毛宁没有正面回答。她重申伊朗战事爆发以来，“中方一直积极致力于促和止战”，又称作为负责任大国，中国将继续发挥建设性作用，为恢复海湾和中东地区的和平安宁作出积极贡献。

毛宁也说，王毅同相关国家的外长先后26次通话，中国政府中东问题特使赴中东和海湾地区穿梭访问，中国和巴基斯坦还共同提出了关于恢复海湾和中东地区和平稳定的五点倡议。

中巴五点倡议是在3月31日巴基斯坦副总理兼外长达尔抵达北京，与王毅举行会谈之后，两国共同提出。在四天前即3月27日，王毅已与达尔通过电话。

新加坡南洋理工大学拉惹勒南国际研究院副教授李明江向《联合早报》分析，中国参与调解美伊战争主要出于自身利益考量，一是中国在伊朗投资规模较大，二是中国从中东地区进口大量原油，战火不停将导致中国面临巨大损失。

李明江也说，中国向来选择性向国际展示它发挥的调解作用，例如2023年沙特和伊朗在中国斡旋下同意恢复外交关系。北京这次选择调低调解美伊冲突，主要考虑敏感性和有效性。“有些信息可能不方便完全公开。公开的话，可能会让伊朗难堪，或者美国和以色列不接受。”

彭博社也引述美国外交关系委员会中国研究高级研究员刘宗媛指出，伊朗战争直接威胁到中国经济增长和政治稳定所依赖的经济环境，促使中国劝说伊朗停火并与美国进一步谈判。

报道也说，下周公布的数据料将显示，伊朗战争拖缓了中国工业产出和出口。

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【早知】谈判在即 美伊有哪些核心分歧？

美国商务部经济分析局星期四（4月9日）发布的第三次GDP预估值低于此前预期。图为停泊在美国洛杉矶港的一艘货轮。 （法新社）

美国商务部公布的最终数据显示，2025年第四季度美国实际国内生产总值（GDP）按年率计算增长0.5%，低于此前0.7%的修正值和1.4%的首次预估值。

美国商务部经济分析局星期四（4月9日）发布的第三次GDP预估值低于此前预期。此前公布的第四季度GDP增速为0.7%。初值曾预测GDP增速为1.4%。

路透社调查的经济师此前预测，GDP增速将维持在0.7%不变。第四季度增速的修正反映了企业在知识产品和库存方面的支出预期下调。

新华社引述美国商务部说，美国经济增速再次下调主要反映投资对增长贡献的下调。数据显示，国内私人投资项下，私人库存变化对该季度经济增速的贡献值从0.28个百分点向下修正为0.14个百分点；固定投资对经济增长的贡献值则被下调0.03个百分点至0.26个百分点。

数据还显示，美国2025年实际国内生产总值增长2.1%，与先前估算持平。

美国商务部通常会根据不断完善的信息对季度经济数据进行三次估算。今年一季度美国经济增长首次预估数据将于4月30日公布。

中国外交部长王毅（右二）星期四（4月9日）乘机抵达平壤国际机场，开始对朝鲜进行为期两天的访问，朝鲜外长崔善姬（右一）在机场迎接。 （法新社）

中国外交部长王毅时隔六年再度访问朝鲜，学者指北京正试图把平壤拉回外交轨道，恢复中国对朝影响力。此次访问落在中美元首会晤前夕，有观点认为，双方可能借机为美朝首脑会面探路。

据中国外交部网站消息，王毅星期四（4月9日）在平壤锦绣山迎宾馆同朝鲜外长崔善姬举行会谈。

王毅在会谈中回顾去年9月中国国家主席习近平与朝鲜最高领导人金正恩的会晤，为中朝关系下步发展作出重要战略指引。他说，中国愿同朝鲜加强战略沟通，密切交往合作，持续巩固中朝关系向好发展势头，为两国人民创造更多福祉，共同促进地区和平与发展。

王毅指出，过去一年中朝交往亮点纷呈，“有力彰显了中朝鲜血凝成的传统友谊永不褪色、牢不可破。” 今年是《中朝友好合作互助条约》签订65周年，王毅说，中国愿同朝鲜共同办好纪念活动，加强高层交往，密切各层级各领域对话与务实合作。

中方新闻稿引述崔善姬说法称，朝中友谊基于共同的社会主义制度和友好传统，两国关系深厚、牢固、可持续。顺应时代潮流和两国人民意愿、推进朝中友好合作是朝鲜坚定不移的立场。

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崔善姬强调，朝鲜完全支持一个中国原则，坚决反对干涉中国内政的行径，坚定支持中国在台湾、涉藏、涉疆等核心利益问题上维护主权和领土完整立场。

根据中方新闻稿，双方还就当前国际和地区问题深入交换意见。

韩联社报道称，王毅除了同崔善姬会谈，还可能拜会金正恩。

王毅上次访问朝鲜是2019年，正值中朝建交70周年，当时金正恩和习近平还实现历史性互访。但过去几年，随着朝鲜与俄罗斯经济军事关系日益密切，中朝关系一度疏远。

韩国外国语大学教授、东北亚未来协力论坛会长康埈荣接受联合早报采访时指出，北京近来一直试图把平壤拉回外交轨道，不愿在朝鲜半岛问题上被边缘化。

康埈荣认为，王毅时隔六年访朝，背后是中国对朝鲜战略位置的重新评估；恢复中国对朝鲜的影响力“到过去的地位”，对中国来说是“最大的关键问题”。

王毅此次访朝正值北京和平壤加强接触之际。金正恩去年9月与习近平会面后，当时随金正恩出访的崔善姬同月底罕见再度访华，中国总理李强随后在10月率中国党政代表团访朝三天，出席朝鲜劳动党建党80周年庆祝活动。

金正恩在今年2月的朝鲜劳动党第九次代表大会上续任总书记后，习近平致电祝贺时说，愿同金正恩一道“谱写中朝友谊崭新篇章”。

今年3月，北京与平壤间的国际旅客列车和中国国际航空公司航班，在中断六年后恢复。

上海对外经贸大学朝鲜半岛研究中心主任詹德斌受访时说，中朝关系就像股市一样有涨有落，但传统友好和基本盘摆在那里，种种迹象表明两国关系正处在正常发展轨道。“如果接下来朝鲜外部环境进一步改善，比如朝美关系有一些松动，会更有利中朝关系发展。”

美国总统特朗普预计5月访华与习近平会面。韩联社引述分析称，在美中领导人可能讨论朝鲜半岛问题的情况下，朝中或就此提前协调沟通，以特朗普访华为契机推进特朗普和金正恩会晤。

詹德斌分析，中国乐意借此机会促进半岛和平稳定，“首先要知道朝鲜的真实想法是什么，诉求是什么，才能在特朗普访华期间更有效沟通。”

另据《朝鲜日报》报道，韩国外交部称，正通过外交渠道与中国保持紧密沟通，“期待朝中交流能朝着有助缓解半岛紧张局势、实现和平的方向发展。”

White House confident Warsh will lead Fed in May

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WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) – White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Thursday that he was ​confident Kevin Warsh would start as Federal Reserve ‌chairman in May and that he did not expect current Fed chairman Jerome Powell to remain on the board.

“I’m highly confident ​that that will happen,” Hassett told Fox ​Business Network, adding that he believed a confirmation ⁠hearing for Warsh was on track to begin next ​week.

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Hassett said Powell had indicated he would leave the ​central bank once a new chair was selected.

“He’s really signaled that once there’s a confirmed head chair, that he’ll step aside, ​and that’s the appropriate thing for him to do,” ​Hassett said on the “Mornings with Maria” program.

However, Powell said in March he ‌would ⁠not leave the Fed at least until a criminal investigation spearheaded by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is over and that he had not yet decided whether to ​remain in ​a governor’s seat ⁠on the central bank’s board that lasts until 2028.

Powell’s term as Fed ​chief ends in May.

A U.S. judge ​last week ⁠upheld a block on subpoenas issued in the investigation into Powell, setting up a likely appeal that could ⁠further ​delay President Donald Trump’s move to ​install a more compliant central bank head.

Reporting by Katharine Jackson; writing ​by Susan Heavey and Kat Jackson; Editing by Doina Chiacu

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自星期三（4月8日）上午以来，有七艘船只驶离波斯湾，另有六艘船只抵达，这主要涉及与伊朗有关的船只。 （路透社）

霍尔木兹海峡的航运仍受到严格限制，过去24小时内的通行完全由与伊朗相关的货运所构成。由于德黑兰继续对通行实施管控，加之以色列对黎巴嫩的打击威胁到脆弱的停火协议，运营方仍持观望态度。

彭博社报道，尽管伊朗方面说，收取通行费的权利是与美国达成的两周停火协议的一部分，但国际海事组织警告称，这将为全球航运树立危险且不可接受的先例。

来自波斯湾的非伊朗石油流出仍然极为有限。截至星期三（4月8日）的七日平均出口低于100万桶/日。4月初曾出现短暂回升，得益于与阿曼相关的两艘超大型油轮运载400万桶原油离港，但这股势头已不复存在。

自星期三上午以来，有七艘船只驶离波斯湾，另有六艘船只抵达，这主要涉及与伊朗有关的船只。此外，星期三两艘满载原油的中国油轮在海湾内驶向海峡并在航道外抛锚，第三艘则于星期四驶向该水域。

过去一天所有观测到的通航船都经过了位于伊朗拉腊克岛和格什姆岛之间的这条狭窄北部通道。

电子干扰持续扰乱该地区的船舶追踪系统。此外，船舶在高风险水域关闭自动识别系统（AIS）应答器，进一步降低了跟踪数据的及时性和可靠性。