Paul Wallace

The US and Iran traded messages over the weekend seeking changes to a draft agreement that would extend the ceasefire and open the Strait of Hormuz.

On social media this morning, President Trump wrote that Iran really wants to make a deal.

Iran's semi-official Taslim news agency says that both sides continue to propose amendments.

Here's Bloomberg's managing editor for economics and government in the Middle East and Africa, Paul Wallace.

Bloomberg's Paul Wallace there.

As Israel expanded its ground assault in Lebanon in its broadest incursion into the country in a quarter of a century, the Israeli military said in a statement that they'd crossed the Litani River and are near one of the biggest cities in southern Lebanon.

Germany's chief of defence says that Europe is rushing to rearm but needs time and clarity from the United States.

Carsten Breuer was responding to US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth's criticism that European countries threw open their borders and hollowed out their militaries.

Here's what Brouwer told Bloomberg at the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore.

Brauer added that he was leaning a little bit back because Germany is massively ramping up its defence spending.

At the same event, Pete Hegseth became the first Pentagon chief in more than a decade to avoid mentioning Taiwan during his speech.

He hailed ties with Beijing as better than they've been in many years.

The Ebola outbreak in the Congo is being detected across a larger area of the east of the country.

Health authorities are struggling to trace exposed contacts and determine the true scale of the epidemic.

Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says that authorities are struggling to deal with the outbreak.

That was Dr. Tom Frieden, current CEO and president of Resolve to Save Lives, speaking there.

According to the latest situation report, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has expanded to 22 health zones in three eastern provinces, with 282 confirmed cases and 42 confirmed deaths.

The strain of Ebola has no approved vaccine or treatment and has also infected nine people in neighbouring Uganda.

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