The World in Brief from The Economist

Warner Bros Discovery, a movie-making giant, is restarting talks with Paramount about a potential deal.

Oil prices rose ahead of negotiations between Iran and America in Geneva on Tuesday. Also, BHP, the world’s biggest mining company by market capitalisation, reported stronger-than-expected half-year results, driven by soaring demand for copper.

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, held talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, about his country’s nuclear programme ahead of negotiations with American officials in Geneva on Tuesday.

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Donald Trump said his Board of Peace has pledged more than $5bn towards the reconstruction of Gaza. Also, ByteDance vowed to curb an AI video-making tool after Disney and other entertainment firms threatened legal action.

Kaja Kallas, the vice-president of the European Commission, rejected America’s assertion, made in a national-defence document last year, that Europe is facing “civilizational erasure”.

Herman Halushchenko, a former Ukrainian minister, was arrested while trying to leave the country.

Five European countries, including Britain, said it was “highly likely” that a poison developed from the Ecuador dart frog killed Alexei Navalny.