Deals and promises arrive before their details, as oil climbs and rain floods Bangkok

Police arrested five men near RAF Fairford, an English air base that US bombers fly from to strike Iran, after a villager reported three vans in the night. Nobody official has said who the men are.

A barrel of oil rose 1.8% to $106.31 as Asian markets opened on Monday, after Trump turned down Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's Revolutionary Guards say ships still need their permission to pass.

Seven of the ten countries doing most to soften fuel prices since the Iran war began are in the European Union, an OECD report finds. Germany will cut its fuel tax by 17 cents a litre from 1 October.

The US and China agreed to cut tariffs, the taxes on goods crossing a border, by $30 billion. The list of goods is not out, so US farmers do not know if China's 10% tax on their soybeans is part of it.

A tech news site reported that China will let Alibaba and ByteDance, two of its biggest tech firms, buy a new chip from Nvidia, the US chip maker. The report rests on two unnamed people, and nobody has confirmed it on the record.

Trump officials say every US state has joined their plan to get lower drug prices for Medicaid, the health cover for people on low incomes. Officials in several states say they have not decided, and the prices are not public.

Nearly 300mm of rain fell on Bangkok in two days, more than its drains could carry away, and the city declared all 50 of its districts a disaster zone. Hurricane Nolo sat still off Hawaii's Big Island.

Floods and landslides hit northern India and Nepal over the weekend. By Sunday Reuters counted 56 dead in India and 14 in Nepal.

Somalia expects El Nino, a warm spell in the Pacific, to bring floods from October. The government and the UN say 5.4 million people there face crisis-level hunger or worse from October to December.

A drone hit the main TV station of Tigray, a region of northern Ethiopia, and took it off air. Ethiopia's army chief accused Egypt and Sudan of backing armed groups that want to remove the prime minister, and gave no evidence.

Families in Tigray are buying food and taking out cash, fearing a return to full war. Flights are cancelled and phone services are cut, and many people pay with mobile money that needs those networks.