Oman announces postponing U.S.-Iran talks for logistical reasons:

The fourth round of the Oman-mediated U.S.-Iran talks scheduled for Saturday in Rome has been postponed for logistical reasons, Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi said on Thursday.

New dates will be announced upon the agreement among all parties, Al Busaidi said on the social media.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei confirmed the postponement on the same day, saying that the new round of indirect nuclear talks with the United States was postponed at the request of Oman's foreign minister.

He also said Iran remains committed to reaching a fair and lasting agreement.

The U.S. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said on Thursday that the fourth round of talks is expected to take place in the near future. She also said that the planned talks on May 3 has never been confirmed.

Following the postponement, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said that the scheduled nuclear talks between Iran, Britain, France, and Germany on May 2 would not take place as planned.

The first and third rounds of the talks, headed by Araghchi and U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, were held in the Omani capital Muscat on April 12 and April 26, and the second one in Rome on April 19.

Oman announces postponing U.S.-Iran talks for logistical reasons:

Oman announces postponing U.S.-Iran talks for logistical reasons:

Oman announces postponing U.S.-Iran talks for logistical reasons:

Oman announces postponing U.S.-Iran talks for logistical reasons:

The death toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippine city of Cebu has risen to eight by Monday morning as search and rescue operations continued for another 28 missing people.

The landfill collapse occurred on Thursday as dozens of sanitation workers were working at the site. The disaster has already caused injuries of 18 people.

Family members of the missing people said the rescue progress is slow, and the hope for the survival of their loved ones is fading.

"For me, maybe I’ve accepted the worst result already because the garbage is poisonous and yesterday, it was raining very hard the whole day. Maybe they’ve been poisoned. For us, alive or dead, I hope we can get their bodies out of the garbage rubble," said Maria Kareen Rubin, a family member of a victim.

Families have set up camps on high ground near the landfill, awaiting news of their relatives. Some people at the site said cries for help could still be heard hours after the landfill collapsed, but these voices gradually faded away.

Bienvenido Ranido, who lost his wife in the disaster, said he can't believe all that happened.

"After they gave my wife oxygen, my kids and I were expecting that she would be saved that night because she was still alive. But the night came and till the next morning, they didn't manage to save her," he said.

Death toll in central Philippine landfill collapse rises to eight