Trump says US and Tehran having 'good talks'

Plus, Japan quake injures at least 50.

Go beyond the headlines with Reuters on the stories shaping the day. Subscribe for $1/week. Daily Briefing Daily Briefing 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. Read our Special Report And Finally... A baked clay fragment inscribed in cuneiform in the Akkadian language, at the British Museum in London. REUTERS/Will Dunham Globally, people currently use roughly 7,500 languages, with English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic and French the most common, counting native and nonnative speakers. That is a lot of languages. But it is a far cry from the peak number historically. Read more   Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on Reuters' website   Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here. Want to stop receiving this email? Unsubscribe here. To manage which newsletters you're signed up for, click here. This email includes limited tracking for Reuters to understand whether you’ve engaged with its contents. For more information on how we process your personal information and your rights, please see our Privacy Statement. Terms & Conditions   © 2026 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036

Iran and US press pause

The US is running out of targets.

Go beyond the headlines with Reuters on the stories shaping the day. Subscribe for $1/week. Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Linda Noakes Hello. There has been a lull in the fighting between Iran and the United States, as Trump's advisers express worries about depleting the US arsenal.  Netanyahu heads to Washington after Israel said it would allow an international force into Gaza. In business news, chipmaker CXMT raises $8.6 billion in Asia's biggest IPO this year. And we have details of Shein's Hong Kong IPO filing - which sidesteps a Xinjiang cotton controversy. Today's Top News   A statue of Iranian military members stands near the Strait of Hormuz. Majid Asgaripour/WANA via REUTERS/File Photo Iran said it was still in control of the Strait of Hormuz and not seeking to resume peace talks with the United States, after President Donald Trump halted a two-week bombing campaign that his top brass told him had run its course. Israel will allow a multinational security force to enter Gaza as proposed under Trump's ceasefire plan for the enclave, an Israeli official said. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Washington, White House Reporter Gram Slattery joins the Reuters World News podcast with what to expect. Firefighters battled massive wildfires threatening the French city of Bordeaux while crews in Spain struggled to control a series of forest blazes raging since last week, the result of a blisteringly hot and dry summer in Western Europe. German police said a 21-year-old man with a record of Islamist extremist activity was shot dead on Sunday, a day after he allegedly drove a minivan into people near ‌Berlin's Pride celebrations, killing one person. Three people were killed and four others, including a toddler, were wounded in a shooting at ‌a downtown Seattle food festival, police said, adding that a suspect had been taken into custody. Indian authorities have suspended a policeman for firing rounds in the air from an assault rifle to disperse student protesters in an eastern state over the weekend, the latest flashpoint in a wave of youth protests. Business & Markets   The CXMT logo and a computer motherboard are seen in this illustration. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Shares of CXMT Corp soared 466% on their Shanghai trading debut following Asia's biggest IPO this year, catapulting the chipmaker to the top of China's stock market by valuation. Shein's Hong Kong IPO filing made no specific mention ‌of risks linked to allegations that its clothes contain cotton from the Xinjiang region, where the US and human rights groups say government-sponsored forced labor programs target Uyghur minorities. Just as a fragile calm was returning to Indonesian markets, the abrupt resignation of the central bank chief has reignited investor anxiety over policy credibility and political influence in managing Southeast Asia's biggest economy. Profits at China's industrial firms grew at a ‌solid, though slower, pace as resilient exports helped cushion sluggish domestic demand, highlighting the economy's uneven recovery. AstraZeneca topped second-quarter profit expectations and backed its 2026 forecasts ‌on demand for its therapies, as the drugmaker sought to quell concerns over longer-term growth prospects after a recent trial failure. Trump may need to allow Chinese minerals as US industry struggles to meet deadline   Crushed ore is displayed at the MP Materials rare earth mine in Mountain Pass, California. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File Photo  Trump has made US mining and processing of critical minerals a national security priority since returning to office. But his push to end Washington's reliance on Chinese critical minerals by January is colliding with a stark reality: American miners and processors aren't ready. Read more And Finally... Tadej Pogacar celebrates on the podium. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes  Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar secured a record-equaling fifth Tour de France title after safely navigating the final stage, won ‌by Mathieu van der Poel, to seal a third consecutive crown in cycling's greatest race. Read more   Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on Reuters' website   Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here. Want to stop receiving this email? Unsubscribe here. To manage which newsletters you're signed up for, click here. This email includes limited tracking for Reuters to understand whether you’ve engaged with its contents. For more information on how we process your personal information and your rights, please see our Privacy Statement. Terms & Conditions   © 2026 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036