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Iran and the United States are holding indirect nuclear talks, mediated by Oman, with the next round set for Saturday. Both sides report progress, but major gaps remain. Iran seeks sanctions relief and civilian uranium enrichment, while the US insists on stricter limits. Could this be the moment the long-stalled negotiations finally produce a breakthrough?

Under the burning sun, surrounded by a light cloud of dust and the enveloping shriek of their plastic trumpets, the lynch mob congregated shortly after noon, covered with Dominican flags. Young gang members and old right-wingers, nostalgic for the dictatorships of Joaquín Balaguer and Rafael L. Trujillo, Trumpist influencers and evangelical fundamentalists, followers of President Luis Abinader and of his recent electoral competitors, Leonel Fernández and Abel Martínez, make up the…

Patricia is sobbing over the phone.

About a dozen Tunisian policemen came to her camp this morning to tell her and the other refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants living rough in the olive fields outside of Sfax, a coastal city in Tunisia, that they had to leave.

They gave them 48 hours.

The police didn’t tell them where to go, only that they couldn’t move to any of the 15 or so camps that have grown outside of the city since police first expelled its refugee population in

Nine people were killed in a Russian attack on a bus in southern Ukraine. It was one of dozens of drone strikes launched overnight. It comes as Russia-Ukraine peace talks falter and the US threatens to “walk away.”