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Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov host talks in Moscow with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. Iran's nuclear program, Afghanistan and Syria are among the topics to be discussed. IMAGES
Images of the Grand Hotel in Vienna where bilateral meetings are taking place aimed at salvaging Iran's 2015 nuclear deal. The United States is indirectly participating in discussions in Vienna in an attempt to save the international agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue. The European powers will serve as intermediaries between the two parties, in the hope of achieving concrete results after two months of deadlock. IMAGES
US State Department spokesman Ned Price says the United States welcomes a meeting announced by the European Union with Iran and says it is ready to take "mutual steps" to return to a nuclear deal. SOUNDBITE
The Nobel committee says nuclear powers must start 'serious' disarmament talks, as it awards the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to anti-nuclear weapons group the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). SOUNDBITE
Leaving his house in London on Friday morning the newly appointed British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson condemned the fatal attacks in Nice on Thursday as "an absolutely appalling incident." Johnson added that he would be looking into any implications of the attack for the UK. A truck was driven into the Bastille Day crowds killing at least 84 on Thursday evening. The driver, a French citizen of Tunisian origin, was shot and killed by security forces at the scene. French President Francois Hollande has extended the State of Emergency.