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IRAN

IAEA may no longer get nuclear site images

Iran's parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf has said the International Atomic Energy Agency may no longer be given access to surveillance images of the Islamic republic's nuclear sites, as a three-month deadline expired on Saturday. The agency said its director-general was expected to brief reporters on Sunday later in Vienna. Under what is called an Additional Protocol with Iran, the agency "collects and analyzes hundreds of thousands of images captured daily by its sophisticated surveillance cameras", the agency said in 2017. Later on Sunday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran will continue nuclear talks in Vienna until a final agreement is reached.

UNITED STATES

2 killed, 8 injured in Minneapolis shooting

Two people died and another eight were injured in a shooting in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, early on Saturday. The Minneapolis Police Department said officers responded to "an exceptionally chaotic scene" at a bar in the city center at 1:59 am. Preliminary investigations revealed two people both pulled out guns and began shooting at each other as they clashed verbally. The shooting was being investigated, and additional law enforcement agencies were called to assist in the process.

CENTRAL AFRICA

Thousands flee city after volcano erupts

About 3,000 people fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo's eastern city of Goma for neighboring Rwanda on Sunday as lava from a volcanic eruption reached the airport of the city. The evacuation plan for Goma has been activated, said government spokesman Patrick Muyaya after an emergency government meeting to discuss the situation. The Nyiragongo volcano, which overlooks the city of Goma and is not far from the country's border with Rwanda, started to erupt on Saturday. Electricity across much of Goma was cut off.

Agencies - Xinhua