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Trump says he will be 'indirectly' involved in Iran nuclear talks4 hours agoShareSavePeter Bowes,North America correspondentandChris GrahamShareSaveGetty ImagesThe president spoke to the press on board Air Force One on Monday, describing the talks as “very important”Donald Trump has said he will be “indirectly” involved in the talks between Iran and the United States which are due to begin in Geneva later on Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, the US president added that he believed Iran wanted to make a deal over its nuclear programme.
The second round of talks in Switzerland follows repeated military threats against Iran over the country's deadly crackdown on anti-government protests and the ongoing dispute over its nuclear programme.
On Monday the foreign ministry in Tehran said it believed that the US position on the nuclear issue had moved towards “a more realistic one”.
Iran says Tuesday's meeting, mediated by Oman, will focus on its nuclea..

Trump's new world order has become real and Europe is having to adjust fast4 hours agoShareSaveKatya AdlerEurope editorShareSaveBBCDowntown Munich is best-known for chic shops and flashy fast cars but right now its streets are bedecked with posters advertising next generation drones.
“Europe's security under construction” boasts the slogan on an eye-catching set of sleek black-and-white photographs, festooned across a scaffolding-clad church on one of this town's best known pedestrian boulevards.
Such an unapologetic public display of military muscle would have been unimaginable here just a few years ago, but the world outside Germany is changing fast, and taking this country with it.
The southern region of Bavaria has become Germany's leading defence technology hub, focusing on AI, drones and aerospace.
Advertisements such as these that say “Europe's security under construction” would have been unthinkable in Germany not long agoPeople here, like most other Eu..

'It's never too late': Savannah Guthrie's new plea for mother's release as FBI analyses glove5 hours agoShareSaveGrace Eliza GoodwinShareSaveWatch: 'It is never too late to do the right thing' Savannah Guthrie saysSavannah Guthrie has issued a plea for her 84-year-old mother's release two weeks after she disappeared, urging anyone involved that “it is never too late to do the right thing”.
In the US TV anchor's latest video appeal, she addresses “whoever has her, or knows where she is”, adding that Nancy Guthrie's loved ones “still have hope”.
It comes as investigators analyse DNA found on a glove that they recovered. The glove being studied appears to match one that was worn by a suspect who appeared in doorbell-camera footage taken the night Nancy Guthrie went missing.
Authorities believe the suspect in the video kidnapped Guthrie in the early hours of the morning of 1 February.
The FBI said on Sunday that investigators recovered the..

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..