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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says that part of the mission to the Russia-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine will stay at the facility "until Sunday or Monday". "There is a group that is going to be there (at the plant) until Sunday or Monday, continuing with the assessment," Rafael Grossi, who is leading an inspection of the frequently shelled plant, told reporters after he returned with part of his 14-strong team to the Ukrainian-controlled area. He did not specify how many people will be staying at the facility. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden's administration has "completed the necessary legal procedures" to extend the New START nuclear treaty with Russia by five years, US State Department spokesman Ned Price announces in a press conference. SOUNDBITE
The European Commission urges the US and Russia to continue talks to "preserve" a nuclear weapons treaty after US President Donald Trump said Washington was withdrawing from the deal. SOUNDBITE
The United States denounces Russia's veto that ended a UN panel monitoring sanctions on North Korea, accusing Moscow of seeking to hide its growing military cooperation. "Russia's actions today have cynically undermined international peace and security, all to advance the corrupt bargain that Moscow has struck with the DPRK," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller says, referring to the North by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. SOUNDBITE
UN nuclear watchdog chief, Rafael Grossi, arrives at Ukraine's Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic plant to assess the situation after a dam near the plant was damaged earlier this month. 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).
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