US President Joe Biden has said he is ready to reverse the decision of his predecessor Donald Trump and return to the 2015 agreement, which was supposed to ensure that Iran never developed a military nuclear programme.

Motegi's push during phone talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi came after Washington accused Beijing of committing "genocide" and other crimes against humanity on Uyghurs in an annual human rights report the State Department released last week.

The 71-year-old veteran premier -- who last month contested his fourth election in less than two years -- arrived at the Jerusalem courthouse where he was met by supporters but also opponents who called him Israel's "crime minister".

Hamzah bin Hussein -- a former crown prince stripped of that title by Abdullah in 2004 -- and the others had worked with foreign parties to "undermine the security" of Jordan, Deputy Prime Minister Ayman Safadi said.

In a statement published by the state news agency, the military said the warning to Prince Hamza was part of a broader, ongoing security investigation in which a former minister, a junior member of the royal family and unnamed others were detained.

Traffic on the canal, a conduit for over 10 percent of world trade, had begun moving again on Monday evening after the 200,000-tonne MV Ever Given was refloated with the help of international salvage experts.

There have been worrying spikes in infections in many parts of the world, even as vaccine rollouts gather pace, forcing the reimposition of deeply unpopular restrictions.

Television footage showed the man, surnamed Lee, saying "I'm sorry" as he walked out of the District Court in Hualien County, eastern Taiwan, after being freed on bail of NT$500,000 (US$17,515).

A 44-year-old man was admitted to a Melbourne hospital with clotting, days after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine, suffering serious thrombosis, a condition that prevents normal blood flow though the circulatory system.

In a telephone call with Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, Blinken "emphasized the administration's belief that Israelis and Palestinians should enjoy equal measures of freedom, security, prosperity and democracy," State Department spokesman Ned Price said.

While tamping down expectations that the discussions in Vienna slated for Tuesday will lead to "an immediate breakthrough," State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement, "We believe this is a healthy step forward."

Officials said Friday's devastating collision was caused when a parked railway maintenance vehicle slipped down an embankment and onto the tracks.

In their talks in China's Fujian Province, Chung told Wang that Seoul and Beijing have a "common goal" of achieving denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, according to South Korea's media.

Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of China's State Council, said that the mainland has been monitoring the rescue operation "with a strong concern," Kyodo News reported.

Taiwan's National Fire Agency said at least 48 people were confirmed dead with 66 others sent to hospital.

Mansour Abbas' United Arab List (UAL) took four of parliament's 120 seats in last week's inconclusive Israeli election, making its support potentially crucial for the conservative Netanyahu to secure a stable governing majority.

"This is a long history that has been simmering," said Nadia Kim, a professor of sociology at Loyola Marymount University in California, the US state with the largest Asian American population.

Local media had reported the trip would take place next week, but top government spokesman Katsunobu Kato said the mid-April date would give both sides time to prepare.

Four people showed no signs of life and at least 23 others have been injured, according to the media. Firefighters and others are at the scene.

"We are willing to continue to strengthen communication and collaboration with the international community to resolve the problem of climate change and China will continue to make our contribution," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters.

The Democratic president has rolled back some of former President Donald Trump's immigration policies since taking office on Jan. 20 including last month revoking a proclamation that had blocked many immigrant visa applicants from entering the United States.

However, lawmakers narrowly failed to pass a no-confidence motion which would have forced Rutte to resign.

China urged Japan to "stop all provocations" around the uninhabited islands administered by Tokyo but claimed by Beijing in the sea, according to the ministry. The islets are called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.

La Perouse will be held on April 5-7, less than a month after Japan, the United States, Australia and India -- four major democracies in the Indo-Pacific region -- held their first summit meeting by videoconference.

Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said he would not strip Representative Matt Gaetz of his committee assignments absent proof that he has engaged in wrongdoing, as Democrats have demanded.

Few official details of the violence in the city south of Los Angeles were immediately available, but the Los Angeles City News Service (CNS) and television station KNBC-TV reported that in addition to the four dead, two people were wounded by gunfire.

The project called the Sovereign Guided Weapons Enterprise would support missile and guided weapons manufacturing for use "across the Australian Defence Force," as a part of the government's 10-year investment into the nation's defense industry.

Largely coronavirus-free Australia has been heralded globally as a pandemic success story, but it is one of the few rich nations to have an extremely limited vaccination rollout.

The mood music ahead of the mid-March meeting in the Alaskan town of Anchorage between the two countries' top diplomats was upbeat, but their meeting quickly collapsed into mud-slinging in a pattern that has not let up since.

Breaking with predecessor Donald Trump's four-year effort to staff federal courts with largely white male conservatives, Biden unveiled his first 11 picks for judges, with only two of them men, neither of them white.