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The United States says it hopes Iran will come forward for diplomacy after European allies dropped a plan to censure Tehran at the UN nuclear watchdog. "We will look forward with strong interest for Iran's willingness to engage in a way that leads to credible, concrete progress," State Department spokesman Ned Price tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, says they "hope" Iran would release jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi so she could attend the prize ceremony in December. "If the Iranian authorities make the right decision, they will release her," she tells a press conference after announcing Mohammadi was this year's prize winner. SOUNDBITE
The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), convenes for the traditional quarterly week-long meeting of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog in Vienna. IMAGES
The UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), holds its quarterly Board of Governors meeting in Vienna. The meeting comes just days after the IAEA's Director-General said that Iran has agreed to reconnect surveillance cameras at several nuclear sites and increase the pace of inspections, a "marked improvement" in talks with the Iranian government. IMAGES
Iran has agreed to reconnect surveillance cameras at several nuclear sites and increase the pace of inspections, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says. "There was a reduction in monitoring activities related to cameras and monitoring systems," Rafael Grossi tells reporters at Vienna airport after returning from Tehran. "We have agreed that both will be operating again." 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).