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The EU proposes new rules that would make it harder for Russian oligarchs to evade sanctions and open the way to confiscating their assets to help pay to rebuild Ukraine. SOUNDBITE
The EU has so far frozen nearly 30 billion euros in assets from blacklisted Russian and Belarusian individuals and companies under sanctions imposed for Moscow's war in Ukraine, it says. SOUNDBITE
The EU must impose oil and gas sanctions on Russia "sooner or later", European Council chief Charles Michel tells the European Parliament. SOUNDBITE
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says Brussels will propose to freeze the assets of the Russian central bank, in a major escalation of sanctions against Moscow following the invasion of Ukraine. Speaking after a videoconference with the leaders of the United States, Germany, France, Italy and Canada, she says the Western allies "will paralyse the assets of Russia's central bank." SOUNDBITE
EU chief Charles Michel urges Belarus to "not take part" in Russia's military assault on Ukraine, ahead of an emergency European Union summit to decide new sanctions on Moscow over its invasion. SOUNDBITE
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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