The United States issued new Iran-related sanctions on Thursday on one individual and several entities based in India and the United Arab Emirates, the Treasury Department website showed.

South Korea and Syria have signed an agreement in Damascus establishing diplomatic relations, the South Korean foreign ministry said on Friday.

The Trump administration aims to convince some immigrants without legal status to self-deport by adding them to a database of dead people, thus rendering their Social Security numbers inoperable, an administration official told Reuters.Immigrants who were legally admitted to the US under the Biden administration but have since had their temporary status revoked would be added to the Social Security Administration's "death master list," which is normally used to identify dead people who should no longer receive Social Security benefits, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss the plans.The scheme was first reported by the New York Times, citing documents it reviewed and six people familiar with the plans. The goal is to pressure migrants to self-deport by effectively canceling their Social Security numbers and cutting them off from financial services, the Times reported."President Trump promised mass deportations and by removing the monetary incentive for illegal aliens to come and stay, we will encourage them to self-deport," Assistant Press Secretary Liz Huston said in a statement, without directly addressing the plan.

China, Japan and South Korea finance and central bank officials met and discussed the impact of US tariffs on the global and regional macroeconomic situation, China's central bank said on Friday.The People's Bank of China Deputy Governor Xuan Changneng was at the ASEAN and China, Japan and South Korea finance and central bank deputies meeting on April 8-9, according to a statement.