President Donald Trump has adopted a significantly more pragmatic approach to negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme than was the case in his first term.

Iran and the United States will hold more negotiations next week over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, Iranian state television reported Saturday at the end of the first round of talks between the two countries since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Iran and the United States have begun talks in Oman over Tehran's nuclear programme - the highest level meeting between the two nations since 2018.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Iranian state television his country wanted a "fair agreement", with his spokesperson saying he did not expect talks to last long.

Iran and the United States will hold more negotiations next week over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, Iranian state television reported Saturday at the end of the first round of talks between the two countries since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

President Trump’s escalating tariff battle with China is rattling the global economy and raising questions about how the standoff will end.  

Trump this week announced a 90-day pause on his sweeping tariffs against dozens of countries, but he bumped up import taxes on China to a staggering 145 percent total. China hit back by upping its own tariffs to 125 percent on Friday, raising the stakes as the hikes roil global markets.  

President Donald Trump on Monday said the U.S. will engage "directly" with Iran in a high-level meeting set to occur this coming Saturday. 

"We have a very big meeting on Saturday, and we're dealing with them directly," Trump told reporters from the Oval Office while sitting next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 

The announced meeting is the first known time the U.S. will directly engage with Iran since the previous Trump administration, when it withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018. 

US President Donald Trump accused the Ukrainian president of “trying to back out” of the minerals deal expected to be agreed between the two countries as early as this week, adding that Volodymyr Zelensky would face “big problems” if he didn’t sign an agreement. But Ukraine has highlighted that the conditions of the deal changed significantly in recent days.

The White House switched from stunned inertia over its Yemen group chat scandal to its regular truth-trashing, brutal attacks on its critics and a perennial defense – that President Donald Trump is the victim of a witch hunt.

Washington, the White House, and the entirety of the US military and intelligence community were stunned on Monday by Jeffrey Goldberg’s reporting that he was added, apparently accidentally, to a Trump administration group chat involving plans to strike the Houthis in Yemen.

The Atlantic‘s editor-in-chief found himself in a group chat alongside 17 others including Vice President JD Vance, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Donald Trump’s cabinet inviting a journalist to a group chat to discuss bombing Yemen’s Houthi rebels must have given American security officials a collective heart attack.

But, for European and British officials, the most alarming aspect of the extraordinary affair was the single dissenting voice in the conversation that played out on Signal.