U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he is hopeful that a nuclear deal with Iran can be reached. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

John Kerry has said that nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna were “getting to some real decisions” and that he was hopeful of a deal.

The US secretary of state said, however, that the negotiators still had “a few tough things to do”. With the Russian and Chinese foreign ministers expected back in the Austrian capital on Sunday evening to rejoin Kerry and their counterparts from the UK, France, Germany and Iran, there were rising hopes that the elusive, but potentially historic, deal could be struck on Sunday or Monday.

Read full story at The Guardian.