Iran says a deal with the US could be signed within the coming days. Washington wants to get rid of Iran's nuclear material. The IMF wants Kiev to raise taxes on regular Ukrainians to pay off the national debt. There is outrage in Kenya as the US seeks to set up an Ebola quarantine facility to serve American citizens.

Israel carried out air strikes on Beirut suburbs, killing 3 people. Iran and the US are trying to reach a peace deal. Russia's Yaroslavl region comes under attack by Ukrainian drones. A fuel storage facility is hit as Kiev's forces target over a dozen regions overnight.

A German-led research team is trying to prove whether large-scale solar farms can alter local weather patterns by heating the air above them and, under the right conditions, encourage cloud formation and even trigger rain in the United Arab Emirates. The theory is rooted in a well-understood atmospheric process known as convection. The field experiments in the UAE are expected to provide the first detailed observations of how giant solar installations interact with the atmosphere.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday he is making available $46 million in voter-approved funding to help clean up cross-border pollution in the Tijuana River and the New River at the California-Mexico border. The money will come from Proposition 4, a $10 billion bond measure approved in 2024 to fund water, climate, wildfire and natural resource projects across California.

Mariana left an appointment at an editorial office feeling satisfied with the contact she had just made. She ordered an Uber to a friend's house, but the app was taking a while, so she ordered a Didi instead. She arrived at the corner of the axis, a little block away, to find herself at the taxi pass.