But in the end it wasn't enough.

The Americans were the first to get out their version of events before getting on their plane and heading home.

The Iranians would not renounce their ambition to build the bomb and seeking the means to do so, said US Vice President JD Vance.

The Iranians say the Americans demanded they hand over their enriched uranium but also refused to accept their sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.

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If the Americans really did walk away over the nuclear issue, they came here on a naive assumption that the Iranians would cave on day one of talks.

The last time the West and Iran reached an agreement on the nuclear issue took almost two years of negotiations.

In reality, we know the main issue on the table was the strait and the stranglehold it has given the Iranians over the global economy.

"The US tried to achieve at the negotiating table what it could not achieve through war," they said in their leaving statement.

That is a pointed reminder that America has failed to achieve its aims through military force.

So what just happened?

Well, in Middle Eastern bazaar terms, this is the moment the buyer walks out of the shop saying the price is too high. Only in this case, both sides think they are the seller and in a position to dictate terms.

Iran is unlikely to come running after the Americans with a lower price if they think they have the upper hand.

That assumption will now be tested.

What happens next?

We are still in a ceasefire period, meant to last two weeks.

Diplomacy will continue through third-party mediators and back channels.

If it cannot make more progress than this historic diplomatic encounter in Islamabad, a return to war seems likely.

Authorities said the stampede occurred at ⁠the Laferriere Citadel, and warned that the death toll could rise.

The 19th-century fortress is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the Caribbean state, and was packed with students and visitors ⁠on Saturday.

The UNESCO ⁠World Heritage site, in the north of the island nation, was reportedly hosting an annual celebration.

Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime confirmed that "many young people" were ​in attendance, but did not identify the victims or give an estimate of the death toll.

In a statement, he extended "his sincere condolences to the bereaved families and assures them of his profound solidarity during this time of mourning and great suffering".

Jean Henri Petit, head of civil protection for Haiti's ​Nord Department, said the disaster occurred at the entrance to the site and was further exacerbated by rain.

The Caribbean country has been afflicted by violent gangs in recent years, with the groups now controlling large parts of the country, including up to 90% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, according to UN figures.

Armed with trafficked weapons, they terrorise civilians with murder, kidnapping, and sexual violence.

Recent disasters have also taken their toll, including fuel tank explosions in 2021 and 2024, that killed 90 and 24 people respectively, and a 2021 earthquake that left some 2,000 people ​dead.

Instead, the country was plunged into one of the most devastating assaults since this war began.

In just 10 minutes, 100 Israeli strikes rained down, killing at least 357 people across the country. Residents in Beirut described a scale and intensity unlike anything they had experienced before. Entire neighbourhoods shook. Buildings collapsed.

Just before it began, on Wednesday afternoon, 13-year-old Naya Fakih was in central Beirut doing what most teenagers do - recording a playful video for her friends on Snapchat.

Then, everything changed.

"We heard something," she told me. "We didn't know what it was...and then they bombed the building in front of us."

Naya and her father ran.

"I was so scared," she said. "You never know what they could do next."

Naya has lived through bombings before. But this, she said, was different: "I've never seen a building fall in front of me. I've always known I was safe where I was."

That sense of safety is now gone.

After an explosion...the line cut

When I met her days later, she was shaken but surrounded by her supportive family. Her mother, Ghida, tells me she was at work that afternoon when her phone rang.

"It was Naya. She was shouting and crying. All I could understand was 'explosion' and 'a building'. And then the line cut off."

What followed was confusion layered with fear. Calls that would not connect. Fragments of information that did not quite make sense. Her husband eventually reached her and said they were safe. Even then, she did not fully understand what had happened.

Then Ghida said something to me which helps explain what life is like here in Beirut now.

"We disregarded it," she said of the blast she initially heard. "Because we've normalised it."

Explosions, sonic booms, the distant thud of strikes have been absorbed into daily life. But this time feels different. For so many in Beirut, it feels indiscriminate.

"I couldn't stay where I was," Ghida said. "As a mother, I had to go to my children."

But the roads were blocked. Traffic froze. Beirut, in that moment, was paralysed by fear.

It was only when she watched Naya's video that the reality fully hit. "I saw what happened," she said. "And then it started to sink in."

'No child deserves to go through this'

What the video captured, almost by accident, was terror. A child filming a social media video one moment, running for her life the next.

"I hope nothing like that ever happens again," Naya told me. "No child deserves to go through what I have gone through."

Her mother said she shared the footage as a message to the world.

"It's not about Naya," she said. "It's about childhood. About what is happening to children here."

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Israel says it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure, but the strikes hit densely populated residential areas. The dead included children, mothers, elderly couples, doctors, poets.

The scale of the attack raises serious questions about proportionality, with the Lebanese government accusing Israel not only of breaching international law, but of committing war crimes.

Beirut has known war before. It understands loss. But this time there was no warning. No evacuation order. No time to escape. What remains is a traumatised population still searching for bodies in the rubble.

Naya's video will fade from timelines, replaced by the next viral clip. But for her, and for countless children across Lebanon, this is not a moment. It is a reality that does not end when the camera stops rolling.

And if the polls are correct, Prime Minister Viktor Orban is on his way out.

After 16 years in power, Hungary's hardman leader - and his self-styled brand of "illiberal democracy" - will supposedly be toast.

This is a huge moment for Hungary and for Europe as a whole. The bloc's problem child may soon be a problem solved.

Orban initially rose to prominence in 1989 as an anti-Communist, student activist and figurehead of Hungary's nascent pro-democracy movement. From anti-Soviet liberal to pro-Kremlin, right-wing nationalist, his political transformation has been astonishing.

He is the EU's most pro-Russia leader, and has consistently stymied the bloc's efforts to punish the Kremlin over its invasion of Ukraine. His Fidesz party is running on an anti-Ukraine platform, which portrays Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the principal threat to Hungary's security. Orban claims his opponents will allow Kyiv and Brussels to drag the country into war with Russia.

"We always win. We always win," he told me at a rally this week, when I asked if he was worried he'll lose. But the Fidesz message doesn't seem to be landing in Budapest, at least.

At a mass anti-Fidesz protest-concert in the city's Heroes' Square on Friday evening, tens of thousands of people chanted "Russians go home", a reference to Hungary's failed uprising against Soviet occupation in 1956.

"I think if Fidesz stays in power we will be kicked out of the EU very soon and also from NATO, because we are spying for Russia," one protester told me.

The run-up to the election has seen Orban's government accused of treason, following allegations that it's been sharing confidential EU information with Moscow.

Support for Orban has traditionally come from rural areas, but even there, sentiment seems to be shifting. A stagnating economy, rising food prices, failing public services, and persistent accusations of corruption are fuelling an appetite for change.

The man promising change is Peter Magyar, a former Orban insider turned critic. He says he'll restore democratic checks and balances, unlock frozen EU funds, and pivot Hungary back towards the West.

He's not every Hungarian's cup of tea. A centre-right conservative, he opposes EU migration quotas and would retain the border fence that was controversially constructed under Orban.

But he's managed to unite the opposition through a savvy social media strategy and a tireless campaign schedule that has crisscrossed the country. As such, many view his Tisza party as the first real chance to finally unseat Orban and Fidesz.

Winning a majority won't be easy, though. After various changes to the constitution under Orban, Hungary's electoral system is now heavily skewed in favour of Fidesz.

Rivals accuse him of gerrymandering - redrawing the electoral map to suit his support base. In two of his re-elections, Fidesz won a two-thirds supermajority despite getting less than half the popular vote.

A Tisza victory is still considered the most likely scenario, but anything less than a clear win could get messy.

In the event of a narrow margin of victory for Tisza, "the legal process after the elections will be a lengthy one," predicts Robert Laszlo, an election specialist at Political Capital. Fidesz would challenge a close result "all ways they can", he believes.

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Whatever the final result, the consequences of this election will be felt beyond Hungary's borders. It's seen as a referendum on right-wing populism.

Police said a man entered the "unauthorised area of Shannon Airport" in County Clare on Saturday morning.

Footage posted on social media appeared to show a man climbing onto a US Air Force C-130 Hercules transporter plane and striking the wing with an object.

A spokeswoman for Shannon Airport said operations resumed after being suspended for around 20 minutes following the incident.

Ireland's police and security service An Garda Siochana said in a statement: "An adult male, aged in his 40s, was arrested for alleged criminal damage by gardai shortly before 11am."

He "is currently detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 in a Garda Station in the Clare Tipperary Division", it added.

The man can be detained for up to 24 hours, excluding breaks.