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* The European Union gave its final approval for sending a civilian and police mission to Serbia's breakaway Kosovo to replace the current UN mission, diplomatic sources in Brussels said

* Russia's Ambassador to Georgia Vyacheslav Kovalenko was summoned on Saturday to the Georgian Foreign Ministry in connection with Moscow's earlier statement on two Georgian breakaway republics

* A senior adviser to the Iranian president said it is against the laws for the Iran Six negotiators to demand that Tehran halts its controversial nuclear program

* Russia's statements on intention to protect its citizens on the territory of two Georgian breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are illegitimate, the Georgian president said

* The International Defexpo India-2008 arms exhibition and conference opened on Saturday in the capital of India, New Delhi

* A black box recorder from a passenger plane that crashed near the capital of Armenia on February 14 injuring four people, has been sent to Moscow for decoding, a local aviation official said

* The death toll of people killed by unusually severe cold weather in Afghanistan since December last year has risen to 926, a spokesman for the country's Ministry for Emergency Situations said