Trump says US and Tehran having 'good talks'

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2026-07-28 12:56

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By Kate Turton

Hello. President Trump says the US and Tehran are having 'good talks', Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Benjamin Netanyahu to attend US Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral, and a major earthquake in Japan knocks out power.

Plus, a day in the life of Congo's overstretched Ebola surveillance teams..

Today's Top News

Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran. Razieh Poudat/ISNA/via WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

War in Iran

President Donald Trump said there was a chance of a deal with Iran over their conflict — an optimism that Iran appeared to test on Monday as Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq reported drone attacks.
Just one in three Americans support the war on Iran, the lowest reading in a Reuters/Ipsos poll since the five-month-old conflict's early days, with most respondents saying that Trump has failed to explain his goals.

In other news

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Zelenskiy are expected to attend the funeral of US Senator Graham, who forcefully lobbied Washington to back both countries during their respective conflicts.
France is bracing for its fourth major heatwave of the year, as soaring temperatures and tinder-dry conditions across the southwest piled pressure on crews ‌battling a giant wildfire in the Bordeaux region.
More than 12,000 people have been arrested by US immigration authorities following tips from the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Reporter Kristina Cooke joins the Reuters World News podcast to talk through the story. Listen now.
A major earthquake rocked Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads ‌and injuring at least 50 people.
Reuters joined doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo as they raced to track down Ebola infections and limit their spread across a patch with 1 million people in 23 health districts.

Business & Markets

Bond investors said they are heading into this week's Federal Reserve policy meeting cautiously positioned as inflation uncertainty clouds the outlook for interest rates, favoring high-quality assets and avoiding large directional bets..
World stocks fell to a one-month low, as investors dumped chipmakers on concerns about Chinese competition and funding of the AI boom, while rising odds of a US interest rate hike as early as this week further dampened the mood.
China has begun mass producing domestically developed immersion deep-ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines, a technology crucial to advanced chipmaking, marking a key step forward in Beijing's drive to ‌reduce its reliance on foreign technologies.
A decades-long crackdown on Google's business practices in Europe is entering a costly new phase, as the loss of the first case brought against it under new EU legislation opens the door to a wave of private lawsuits demanding up to $10 billion in damages.
China, the world’s second-largest economy, experienced the largest credit boom and bust in recent history. On this episode of The Big View podcast, Logan Wright of Rhodium Group explains why debt, deflation, slow growth and industrial overcapacity will be hard to shift in the People’s Republic.

Regime change? Inside Reza Pahlavi’s faltering bid to lead Iran

Pahlavi received a hero's welcome at the CPAC gathering of US conservatives in March - in what now appears to be a high-water mark for his movement. REUTERS/Daniel Cole

The son of Iran’s last shah says the Islamic Republic is on the brink of collapse and he is the bridge to a democratic future. But he’s contending with violence by some supporters, discontent among donors and rejection by the Trump administration.

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A baked clay fragment inscribed in cuneiform in the Akkadian language, at the British Museum in London. REUTERS/Will Dunham

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