The online editions of the Guardian and Telegraph report that US Secretary of State John Kerry met Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Zarif on the third day of nuclear talks between the P5+1 powers (US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) and Iran over a potential long-term agreement on Tehran’s nuclear programme. The Guardian online says that the two leaders also discussed the threat of ISIS.

The Times online says that James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligence has warned that the shadowy terror group Khorosan, which is spearheaded by senior Al-Qaeda activists, poses a greater threat to the US homeland than ISIS.

The Telegraph online reports that at least three people were killed yesterday in a car bomb at a Hezbollah checkpoint in Lebanon near the Syrian border. The attack appears to be closely related to the Syrian Civil War, with Hezbollah a close ally of President Assad.

According to the Financial Times online, an explosion in the centre of Egypt’s capital Cairo yesterday killed at least two people. The attack is thought to be the work of Islamists who have violently clashed with Egypt’s security forces ever since the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood last year.

Both the Daily Express and Daily Star cover a protest outside the Qatari Embassy in London yesterday, organised by pro-Israel activists. The demonstrators called on authorities to strip Qatar of the right to host the 2022 World Cup due to the Qatari government’s financial support of Hamas and its attacks on Israel.

The Independent online reports that Labour parliamentary candidate Vicki Kirby has been suspended by the party for her hostile use of Twitter in which she called Israel “evil,” referred to Hitler as a “Zionist God” and asked why ISIS hasn’t yet attacked Israel.

The Telegraph covers accusations that the medical journal, the Lancet has engaged in an anti-Israel campaign. Signatories of a recently published open letter on Gaza have been found to have publicised a video promoting a conspiracy theory of Zionist global control touted by American white supremacist David Duke.

In the Israeli media, Maariv leads with the latest round of talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yair Lapid over the 2015 state budget. Tensions between the two were reportedly high last week with Lapid refusing to raise taxes to help cover the cost of Operation Protective Edge, while Netanyahu opposed Lapid’s solution of extending the deficit. In a meeting yesterday, the two apparently resolved many of their differences, although disagreement over the extent of increasing the defence budget remains.

In a related item, Yediot Ahronot leads with a report that the IDF intends to purchase hundreds of protected Namer armoured personnel carriers, as part of the recommendations following Operation Protective Edge. Meanwhile, Israel Hayom also includes a prominent item which reports that defence establishment officials have said that they need more money.

Maariv reports on an IDF briefing yesterday in which a senior officer said that although 95 per cent of the Syrian border territory is controlled by opposition forces, they are dominated by the Al-Nusra Front and that ISIS forces are still a long way from the Israel-Syria border.

Israel Radio news covers comments made last night by Prime Minister Netanyahu who warned that it would be a grave mistake for the world to ease its demands over Iran’s nuclear development in order to mobilize Tehran in the battle against ISIS.