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Donald Trump also said earlier that the memorandum of understanding aiming to end the war has already been signed by the United States and Iran, and the text would be published \u201cpretty soon\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think pretty soon … I want it to be released because it\u2019s a very powerful document. It\u2019s not like the Obama document, which was just a terrible document. This is a very powerful document and I want it to be released, so probably pretty soon,\u201d Trump told reporters in France.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say, sometime after Friday, because the strait, it\u2019s open now, but it opens completely,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Multiple outlets including CNN and the New York Times have reported that Trump and JD Vance both signed the deal electronically with Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran\u2019s lead negotiator.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n That last post<\/a> is in line with Donald Trump\u2019s earlier suggestion that he would not attend the formal signing ceremony for the Iran agreement in Geneva on Friday.<\/p>\n Speaking alongside French president Emmanuel Macron at the G7<\/a> summit in \u00c9vian les-Bains, Trump had said his vice-president JD Vance would be going to Geneva for the signing.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was originally going to do it. I\u2019ll probably be gone by then,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Vice-president JD Vance, Trump\u2019s special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner will lead the United States delegation at the official signing ceremony for the Iran<\/a> deal on Friday in Geneva, US officials have told the New York Times.<\/p>\n Vance earlier dodged a question from CNBC<\/a> about who would be present for the US delegation on Friday and.<\/p>\n The NYT report added that the vice-president will continue to lead negotiations in the next phase of the talks with Iran, citing a US official.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Will the US-Iran peace deal hold? \u2013 podcast<\/p>\n The US and Iran have reached a tentative deal<\/a> to end the conflict, but competing claims from Washington and Tehran have left the details shrouded in uncertainty. Questions remain over the reopening of the strait of Hormuz, Israel\u2019s withdrawal from Lebanon, and the future of Iran\u2019s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n In today\u2019s edition of The Latest podcast, Nosheen Iqbal speaks to the Guardian\u2019s senior international correspondent Julian Borger.<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.22 CEST<\/p>\n Trump wants to put a $75m coal terminal in this liberal California city. Residents aren\u2019t having it<\/p>\n Cecilia Nowell<\/p>\n West Oakland, a California neighborhood known for its rich history of Black activism from the Pullman Porters\u2019 union to the Black Panthers, might not seem like the site of the country\u2019s next great coal project.<\/p>\n But that\u2019s exactly what the Trump administration is pushing for \u2013 with the injection of $75m<\/a> to build a sprawling coal export terminal in the nearby port of Oakland.<\/p>\n Last week, Donald Trump announced he was using<\/a> wartime powers to hand $700m to coal projects around the US, including the one in Oakland. The news has breathed renewed energy into a decade-long battle against the coal terminal, which Trump hopes will break ground as soon as this summer.<\/p>\n Anti-coal activists were already planning a gathering about the project in Berkeley this month. But Trump\u2019s 4 June announcement<\/a> \u201caccelerated everything\u201d, said Veronica Eady, executive director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, a grassroots organization focused on environmental justice in West Oakland, which has a high pollution<\/a> burden from the nearby port, highways and other industry. \u201cNow there is even more urgency, particularly since President Trump said he wants it to start this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Trump says he is going to focus on Ukraine now after signing Iran deal<\/p>\n Donald Trump spoke to the press alongside French president Emmanuel Macron, the host of this week\u2019s G7 summit in \u00c9vian les-Bains.<\/p>\n The US president repeated much of what his administration has already been saying about the memorandum of understanding that has been signed by US and Iran, saying that ships are starting to pass through the strait of Hormuz now and that by Friday, the strait \u201cwill be completely open\u201d.<\/p>\n He said while the strait will be open and free of tolls, he said that \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a bad idea to have a ship or two up here from a few countries \u2026 because you never know what happens\u201d. Trump said he also wants to \u201csee if we can straighten out the Lebanon thing, because it just seems to just never end\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIt should not be tough,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cwe just have to have a little talk\u201d with Hezbollah.<\/p>\n Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit, in \u00c9vian, France. Photograph: Ludovic Marin\/Reuters<\/p>\n Trump also mentioned that he \u201chad a very good conversation yesterday\u201d with Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, as well as with Vladimir Putin, president of Russia.<\/p>\n \u201cI see maybe we can do something there, I really do. I think they\u2019re both open to it. So now that this is finished, we\u2019re going to be focusing on that,\u201d he said, referring to the conflict with Iran.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.13 CEST<\/p>\n US and Iran have signed memorandum of understanding, US official says<\/p>\n The \u2060United States and Iran have signed a memorandum of understanding to settle the nearly four-month war, Reuters reports that \u2060senior US \u2060officials \u200bhave said, adding that a signing ceremony would take place on Friday and shipping traffic \u2060in the strait of Hormuz would gradually ramp up.<\/p>\n The memorandum of understanding has been signed \u2060by Donald Trump and vice-president JD Vance and \u200bIranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher \u200cGhalibaf, one US \u200cofficial said.<\/p>\n Speaking at a briefing with reporters, the US \u200cofficial added that there will also be a signing ceremony on Friday.<\/p>\n \u201cYou will see significant increase in traffic in the strait of Hormuz, actually starting already, and that will ramp up slowly over time,\u201d the US official, \u200cspeaking on the condition of anonymity, said. \u201cWe probably won\u2019t return to normal in two weeks, but \u200bwe will see a significant increase in strait traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>UFC boss Dana White says ‘never again’ to another White House fight night<\/p>\n UFC chief executive Dana White insisted that yesterday\u2019s event at the White House<\/a> exceeded his expectations \u201cin every way you gauge success\u201d \u2013 but stood by his claim that it is a one-and-done.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was an amazing, experience, this was a one of one,\u201d he said. \u201cIt will never happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n Merchandise, he said, had hit all-time metrics, and the numbers on Paramount were \u201cmonstrous\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cHopefully tonight created some unity,\u201d White said. \u201cEven for the people that thought this was going to be some big political statement or something, this wasn\u2019t. This was Americans, all Americans celebrating the birthday. For people who tuned in for the first time, because it was at the White House, hopefully they liked the sport. They liked some of the guy\u2019s stories.\u201d<\/p>\n But despite all the pomp and pageantry, the eyerolls and angst, White stood by his claim that UFC<\/a> is one-and-done in DC.<\/p>\n The constant headaches over weather concerns in the rare outdoors show, the logistics of construction of the cage and staging events at federal landmarks and the soaring cost – UFC said it was footing the $60m tab – made the Freedom 250 a one-off for a company once dubbed \u201chuman cockfighting\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t afford it,\u201d White said. \u201cI\u2019ll never do the Sphere [in Las Vegas] again and we\u2019ll never do this again.\u201d<\/p>\n White also said<\/a> that he and Donald Trump had discussed doing a fight for troops in 2027 but coordinating with the military to have fights on military bases takes time.<\/p>\n \u201cHe wanted to do it this year,\u201d White said. \u201cAnd I said, sir, I need a year to recover financially.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.54 CEST<\/p>\n Donald Trump will be looking to build on the momentum of announcing his deal with Iran, and is expected to discuss with the G7 leaders the de-mining of the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n Britain and France have expressed interest in assisting with that effort once the conflict was paused. Fears over potential mines is among the reasons tanker traffic ground to a halt in the critical waterway during the war, and quickly clearing them will be crucial to regaining the confidence of commercial vessels to resume navigating the strait.<\/p>\n Macron today said France was ready to move \u201cvery quickly\u201d to deploy assets, including mine-clearing vessels, to the region to help, the Associated Press reports.<\/p>\n The French president added that a French aircraft carrier and an accompanying strike group are already in the region and would be ready to assist within days of the US and Iran<\/a> signing the agreement.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Here are some pictures of Donald Trump\u2019s arrival for the G7 summit in \u00c9vian les-Bains.<\/p>\n Donald Trump waves as he arrives for the G7 summit, in \u00c9vian-les-Bains. Photograph: Isabel Infantes\/AFP\/Getty ImagesThe summit will be attended by G7 leaders as well as the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief and ministers from Brazil, the UAE and Turkey. Photograph: Isabel Infantes\/AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.29 CEST<\/p>\n in \u00c9vian les-Bains<\/p>\n Emmanuel Macron, the host of the G7 summit in \u00c9vian-les-Bains, has framed an agenda to make it as palatable as possible to his guest of honour, but the French president has no idea if Donald Trump, a haphazard summit attender, will last the full three days \u2013 or disrupt the proceedings every hour he stays.<\/p>\n The US president quit the last G7 summit<\/a> in Kananaskis, Canada, early to work on the Iran conflict<\/a>, and this year, plus \u00e7a change, Iran may also draw presidential attention. For good measure, he insulted this summit\u2019s host before leaving Canada last year, describing Macron as \u201cpublicity seeking\u201d and adding: \u201cPurposefully or not, Emmanuel Macron always gets it wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n Macron, who will be attending his 10th G7 summit, chose not to take umbrage, and has even postponed the start of the summit to allow Trump to celebrate his 80th birthday with a UFC event on the White House lawn<\/a>. Macron is holding out a dinner in Versailles on Wednesday night as a reward if Trump stays the three days; French officials say Trump adores the palace\u2019s gold, and insist the two men respect each other.<\/p>\n It will be touch and go if Trump completes the summit. Reports out of Washington suggest the US president has not been in celebratory mood, and the temptation for him will be to insult his six fellow leaders \u2013 representing Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the UK \u2013 for lacking the loyalty to join his earlier plan to reopen the strait of Hormuz through force. At best, he will be demanding the planned Franco-British naval taskforce to enforce the restoration of freedom of navigation, as outlined in the US-Iran joint memorandum of understanding, moves quickly. De-mining is also urgently needed if the hundreds of tankers backed up in the strait are to reach the arteries of the world economy in time.<\/p>\n Donald Trump arrives to attend the G7 summit, in \u00c9vian-les-Bains, France. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein\/Reuters<\/p>\n The other G7 leaders \u2013 all opposed to the Iran war, with the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, describing it as a US humiliation<\/a> \u2013 will have to decide whether to look ahead, or pass verdict on a war that has upended the world economy.<\/p>\n Trump also faces being cornered by two other even more persistent wars \u2013 Ukraine<\/a> and Gaza<\/a>. Macron wants to see Europe given a greater role in solving both conflicts, pointing out it is Europe, not the US, that is saving Ukraine from bankruptcy.<\/p>\n France will also be pressing for the US to resolve the impasse in Gaza over Hamas disarmament. Trump will meet leaders from Qatar, UAE and Egypt to discuss the crisis and the fallout from Iran. But there will be no attempt to sign a joint communique on the conflicts and Macron will instead issue a summary.<\/p>\n If the worst comes to the worst, the \u00c9vian golf course \u2013 which dates back to 1904 \u2013 is closed for the three days, and if the earnest summitry gets too much, it represents an escape route for the world\u2019s most famous 80-year-old golfer.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.10 CEST<\/p>\n Trump arrives for G7 summit at tense moment for relations<\/p>\n Donald Trump has landed in Geneva ahead of this week\u2019s G7 summit, shortly after announcing his tentative peace agreement with Iran to end a war that has upended the global economy and killed thousands of people in the region.<\/p>\n From Geneva, he will travel to \u00c9vian-les-Bains, France, where world leaders are gathered for the annual summit. Later today he\u2019ll have a bilateral meeting with the host, French president Emmanuel Macron, ahead of a working dinner with the other G7<\/a> leaders.<\/p>\n Donald Trump exits Air Force One in Geneva, Switzerland, en route to attend the G7 Leaders\u2019 Summit in \u00c9vian-les-Bains, France. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will also meet with G7 leaders, including Trump, tomorrow, as Russia\u2019s invasion of his country rages on \u2013 though there\u2019s no word yet on whether or not he\u2019ll get a one-on-one with the US president.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s summit comes as Trump\u2019s relations with many of the other G7 leaders is at an all-time low. Indeed, he\u2019s fallen out massively with several key allies who have criticized his war on Iran \u2013 British PM Keir Starmer, German chancellor Friederich Merz (who described the war as a humiliation<\/a> of the United States), and Italian PM Giorgia Meloni. He\u2019s always had a turbulent relationship with Macron, but that\u2019s also disintegrated after Trump\u2019s \u201cinelegant\u201d comments about his private life<\/a>. Trump\u2019s relationship with Canadian PM Mark Carney also remains cordial yet tense<\/a>. Indeed, the only G7 leader Trump has a warm relationship with at the moment is Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi.<\/p>\n A reminder that Trump left last year\u2019s summit in the Canadian Rockies after only a day as the Israeli-Iran conflict intensified. Three days later he joined Israel in bombing key Iranian nuclear sites.<\/p>\n![\"Will](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781545747_90_1920.jpg\")
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