Iran pause, Moscow restaurant attack and GLP-1 clothes shopping
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Hi, I'm Tara Oakes in Liverpool. It's Sunday, August 2nd. Today, Trump says he'll hold off on fresh Iran attacks in the hope of a quick deal. While in Israel, a new Jewish-Arab political party is courting young anti-war voters. How clothing stores are adapting to demands from shoppers on GLP-1 weight loss meds.
Why is President Trump pausing new strikes on Iran and what deal is he seeking?
And a fiery summer in Europe is threatening France's cherished camping culture. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the frontlines in 10 minutes, seven days a week. President Donald Trump has said the US will hold off on a fresh attack on Iran as long as a deal can be reached quickly. Trump's post on his Truth Social platform says Iran and other Middle Eastern countries asked for time to contemplate a deal, one that would lead to, quote, the immediate, complete and total opening of the Strait of Hormuz and what he calls an end to Iran's nuclear threat. He didn't name the countries in the post, which followed a call with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, a US ally.
And in Gaza, despite Trump's announcement of a breakthrough in efforts to implement last year's ceasefire agreement, Israeli airstrikes continued for a second straight day. In Israel itself, war isn't popular with everyone. A new pro-peace Jewish Arab political party called A Place for Us All is courting young voters ahead of an October election, the first national ballot since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack and the Gaza war. But some analysts say that small parties risk soaking up votes that yield no seats. Reporter Benjamin Raab explains.
The risks are that you have this critical election, right? Netanyahu is effectively on the ballot. You have four historic establishment Arab parties that are trying to form a joint list, which is this show of unity that historically the Arab parties have used to all be on the ballot under the same banner and historically has turned out Arab voters more than if the Arab parties were on the ballot individually. And suddenly you have this new party that's also
Benjamin says that whether or not the party makes it into parliament, it may signal something about the direction of Israeli politics.
I think it speaks to a broader political moment in Israel right now, in which you have a group of young people, men and women, Jewish, Palestinian activists who say, we're dissatisfied with our options right now, both on the left, where you'll hear the The organizers of this party say, even on the most leftward Israeli party, Yair Golan and Ted refuses to call what's happening in the West Bank an occupation. And also on the Arab side, where you have these four establishment parties that at a moment where turning out Arab voters and speaking to voters is of chief concern, their focus, these established parties, is on internal politics, is putting together this joint list. And so here you have a party that's saying,
This old guard isn't working for us anymore.
Now to some developing news from Indonesia. We're dozens missing after a ferry caught fire off Madura Island. At the time of recording, authorities have confirmed at least five people have been killed. A search and rescue mission is ongoing. You can follow the latest on this story on Reuters.com and the Reuters app. A homemade bomb carried by a woman has killed at least three people in central Moscow. The explosion occurred just before 8 p.m. local time on Saturday, close to an Italian restaurant located in one of Moscow's Stalin-era skyscrapers. Authorities haven't named those killed or injured, but say the woman herself and a security guard were among the dead. The Kommersant daily newspaper, citing its own sources, suggests the bomb may have been set off by someone else remotely and that the woman carrying it may not have known it was an explosive device.
Russia's FSB security service has said authorities will step up protection for high-ranking officials after a series of assassination attempts it blames on Kiev. Japan's finance minister will announce on Monday that Tokyo and Washington took joint action in the currency market to arrest the yen's slide to 40-year lows.
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