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A project to seal off Chernobyl with a massive arch to prevent radioactive material from leaking from the site is facing a facing a €615 million ($686 million) shortfall, according to a report by the German government.
NATO members have agreed that their established goal of spending two percent of their national output on defence will become a minimum level, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg tells reporters. "Eleven allies now reach or exceed the two percent benchmark," he says at the end of the first day of the NATO summit in Vilnius. "And we expect this number will rise substantially next year. Today, allies made an enduring commitment to invest at least two percent of gross domestic product annually in defence." SOUNDBITE
Images show Kyiv residents fleeing for safety as a drone flies over the city centre. AFP journalists in the Ukrainian capital heard explosions lasting 15 to 20 minutes, which followed on from an earlier series of attacks overnight. IMAGES
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says during a press conference in Colombia's capital Bogota that he welcomes the conversation between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, thought to be their first call since Russia invaded Ukraine. SOUNDBITE TO FOLLOW 33DW89G
Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announces the extension of the Black Sea grain deal that allowed the export of Ukrainian grain to resume following Russia's invasion. "This agreement" he says, "is of vital importance in terms of global food supply". Ukraine's infrastructure minister, Oleksandr Kubrakov, tweeted that the deal has been extended for 120 days. COMPLETES EN_33BK8BL SOUNDBITE
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