DETENTE: The US and Iran said yesterday they will resume indirect negotiations on reviving the 2015 nuclear development deal.
The six-party deal was torn up by then US president Donald Trump in 2018.
Talks start in Austria on Tuesday between Iran and the other original signatories to the deal — the EU, China, France, Germany, Russia and Britain — minus the US, on how to get the US back on board.

UNITED STATES: Seven police officers have been fired over the death in custody of Marvin Scott III, a black man arrested for possession of cannabis, on March 14.
Collin County, Texas sheriff Jim Skinner said the seven violated sheriff’s office policy in their treatment of Mr Scott, who was placed on a restraint bed, forced into a spit hood and pepper-sprayed after exhibiting “strange behaviour” in custody.

INDIA: Clashes erupted in Kashmir yesterday after the Indian army killed three suspected separatists.
A gunfight erupted in Kakpora village following the operation to kill the three, whom General Vijay Kumar said had been involved in the killing of a policeman guarding the home of a politician of India’s ruling BJP. Locals marched in solidarity with the villagers and were fired on with tear gas by Indian troops.