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This message comes from Capital One with the Venture X card. Earn unlimited double miles, a three hundred dollar annual Capital One travel credit, and access to airport lounges. Capital One. What's in your wallet? Terms apply. Details at capitalone.com. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. President Trump says a deal is being discussed with Iran, but that both sides need time to get it right. Iran, which controls the Strait of Hormuz, has its own set of demands, as NPR's Aya Batrawy reports. The deal being hammered out would be a preliminary agreement and not include technical points on Iran's nuclear program. Iranian media say the deal under discussion extends the current ceasefire by another sixty days and opens the path for direct talks. Iran would allow commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway it did not control before the war. In turn, Iran says it wants the U.S. to unfreeze its money in overseas banks and guarantee an end to Israel's war in Lebanon against the Iran-backed Hezbollah. But Israel's prime minister has pushed back against Trump's diplomatic efforts with Iran, and he says Trump affirmed to him that Israel has a right to, quote, "defend itself against threats," which Benjamin Netanyahu says includes Lebanon. Aya Batrawy, NPR News, UAE. Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say a hospital treating Ebola patients has been attacked. Michael Kaloki reports there are now more than nine hundred suspected Ebola cases in the country.