* Incorrect decisions taken by the UN Security Council would affect Tehran's cooperation with the nuclear watchdog, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said
* President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Kremlin regiment with the 70th anniversary of its establishment and gave it a new combat banner
* Russia is joining as a third party in hearings being held by the European Court of Human Rights over an appeal filed by a World War II veteran against Latvia, the presidential press office said
* Georgia has started consultations with Ukraine on their withdrawal from the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Georgian foreign minister said
* The government of Russia is considering canceling benefits for Georgia and Ukraine, if they decide to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Independent States, a government source said
* Forty-six out of fifty-one bodies that have been recovered at the site of an air crash off Russia's Black Sea coast that left 113 people dead Wednesday have been identified, the transportation minister said
