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Iran ready to discuss compromises to reach nuclear deal, minister tells BBC in Tehran3 hours agoShareSaveLyse Doucet,chief international correspondent, in Tehran,andJeremy Culley,in LondonShareSaveWatch: “The ball is in America's court”, Iranian minister saysIran is ready to consider compromises to reach a nuclear deal with the US if the Americans are willing to discuss lifting sanctions, an Iranian minister has told the BBC.
US officials have repeatedly emphasised that Iran, not the US, is holding up progress in this protracted negotiating process.
On Saturday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said President Donald Trump preferred a deal but it was “very hard to do” one with Iran.
But in an interview with the BBC in Tehran, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran's deputy foreign minister, said the ball was “in America's court to prove that they want to do a deal”, adding: “If they are sincere, I'm sure we will be on the road to an agreement.”
Trump has threatened strikes aga..

Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using dart frog toxin, UK says7 hours agoShareSaveAdam GoldsmithandTom McArthurShareSaveGetty ImagesRussian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed using a poison developed from a dart frog toxin, the UK and European allies have said.
Two years on from the death of Navalny at a Siberian penal colony, Britain and its allies have blamed the Kremlin following analysis of material samples found on his body.
Speaking from the Munich Security Conference, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said “only the Russian government had the means, motive and opportunity” to use the poison while Navalny was imprisoned in Russia.
According to Tass news agency Moscow has dismissed the finding as “an information campaign”, but Cooper said there is no explanation for the toxin, called epibatidine, being found.
While Cooper announced the findings, a joint statement was issued by the UK, Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
Cooper met with Navalny's..

Police activity under way near Nancy Guthrie's home55 minutes agoShareSaveAlexander Ledermanin Tucson, ArizonaShareSaveReutersPolice activity connected to the search for Nancy Guthrie, the missing mother of US news anchor Savannah Guthrie, is under way at a residence about two miles from her home.
Armed police teams have been seen coming in and going from the area, with a sheriff's vehicle blocking the road.
It comes after local officials said investigators had found DNA at Guthrie's address which does not belong to her or anyone close to her.
The 84-year-old disappeared in the middle of night from her home in Tucson, Arizona, nearly two weeks ago. Authorities believe she was taken against her will.
In a social media post, the sheriff's department said “law enforcement activity” was ongoing “related to the Guthrie case” without providing further details.
More than a dozen law enforcement vehicles, both marked and unmarked, have been seen in the area by BBC News, inc..

Gisèle Pelicot tells BBC: I felt crushed by horror – but I don't feel anger3 hours agoShareSaveVictoria Derbyshire,BBC NewsnightandLaura GozziShareSaveBBCGisèle Pelicot, the woman at the centre of France's largest rape trial, has told BBC Newsnight she was “crushed by horror” on discovering that, for years, her husband had repeatedly drugged her unconscious and invited dozens of men to rape her.
“Something exploded inside me,” says Ms Pelicot, 73, of the moment she realised the scale of her husband's crimes. “It was like a tsunami.”
In an extensive interview ahead of the publication of her memoir, A Hymn To Life, she describes how phoning her three children with the news of what she had discovered about their father was possibly the toughest experience of her life.
'Descent into hell'She recalls the moment she decided to waive her legal right to anonymity, and how she has never regretted that decision. She also reveals she still has unanswered questions she wan..

Analysis: Trump takes victory lap after biggest climate rollback yet10 hours agoShareSaveDaniel BushWashington correspondentShareSaveReutersThe Trump administration lauded the move as an assault on overbearing regulationUS President Donald Trump framed his sweeping rollback of federal climate change policy on Thursday as a political win over the Democratic Party's “radical” environmental agenda, reprising a message Republicans have used in past elections and could turn to once again ahead of November's crucial midterms.
His announcement at the White House was one of the most significant moves of his second term in office. The president said he was revoking an Obama-era “endangerment finding” from 2009 which held that pollution harms public health and the environment.
For almost 17 years, the US has used that scientific finding as the legal basis to establish policies to reduce emissions from cars, power plants and other sources of planet-warming gases.
“This radical rule beca..