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U.S. President Barack Obama wraps up his global nuclear security summit in Washington with a call to nations to do more to slow the flow of foreign fighters to Islamic State. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Josep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, holds a speech in Bruges to inaugurate the European Diplomatic Academy. "Europe is a garden," he says, praising the "combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion". He urges European leaders, whom he compares to "gardeners", to help prevent the invasion of the "jungle". SOUNDBITE
"The destiny of Ukraine is at stake, but our own fate also lies in the balance," says the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. SOUNDBITE
Nathan Sales, the US State Department counterterrorism coordinator, says it "would be irresponsible for any country to expect Iraq" to prosecute foreign fighters instead of repatriating them to their countries of origin. SOUNDBITE
The trial of two "returning foreign fighters", alleged to have fought in Raqqa, Syria and Mosul, Iraq in 2015 and 2016, opens on Monday in Paris. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).