JD Vance says Iran has agreed to allow nuclear inspectors back into the country - a key demand of the international community - with discussions with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) happening "as soon as today".

The US vice-president said a great deal of progress had been made after the first round of talks between the US and Iran to reach a final deal to end the war, echoing a statement by mediators.

He said teams had discussed the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and "de-

Guinea has banned the export of unrefined gold in an effort to promote domestic processing of the precious metal.

The policy - effective immediately - comes after Guinea's President Mamadi Doumbouya met industrial and artisanal gold producers and buyers, and aims to boost the economy and create more jobs.

"Guinea will now require its gold to be processed within its own borders. Raw gold will no longer leave Guinea," he said, adding that

Former US Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan has died aged 100, his wife has said.

NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell said in a statement reported by her employer that her husband had died from complications of Parkinson's Disease.

Mitchell's statement said Greenspan was "a giant of a man who helped shape the US economy for decades under presidents of both parties, but was always honest in acknowledging his mistakes".

For nearly 20 years, Alan Greenspan was charged with safeguarding the US economy and

Leading Kenyan lawyer and former Justice Minister Martha Karua has been blocked from entering Uganda and ordered to return home, according to the Uganda Law Society.

Karua had just arrived at the Entebbe airport to join a team defending her Ugandan lawyer colleague Erias Lukwago, with whom they have been representing detained opposition leader Kizza Besigye, who is on trial for treason.

A statement from Karua's office said she had been detained at the airport, adding that

I wasn't supposed to be there.

I was 17, I had never been to a football match and I wasn't interested in the sport. But that afternoon, walking into the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, I was about to watch Argentina play England in a World Cup quarter-final - and to witness something I would only fully understand many years later.

That morning, we had no plans. Then the phone rang. A friend of my father had two