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The United States condemns recent Iranian strikes in Pakistan, Iraq and Syria, which Tehran has claimed were carried out against "anti-Iranian terrorist groups." "We do condemn those strikes. We've seen Iran violate the sovereign borders of three of its neighbors in just the past couple of days," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
The United States warns that any Gaza ceasefire by Israel would benefit Hamas, as the European Union considers a call for a humanitarian pause. A ceasefire would "give Hamas the ability to rest, to refit and to get ready to continue launching terrorist attacks against Israel," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on October 7 to push forward denuclearization efforts, the State Department says. SOUNDBITE
The U.S. State Department said that it will not accept North Korea becoming a nuclear state after it conducted its fifth and biggest nuclear test on Friday. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
US State Department spokesman Mark Toner cracked up laughing after calling State Department press conferences an "exercise in transparency and democracy", while speaking to the press in Washington DC on Friday.
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).