[02:18.59]its former province which broke away and then declared independence in 2008.
[02:23.40]The EU has also decided to start work on what's called an association agreement with Kosovo itself covering a variety of economic and political ties.
[02:32.45]A Brazilian congressman sentenced to 13 years in jail for corruption has given himself up after several days on the run.
[02:39.55]Natan Donadon is the first serving congressman to be jailed in Brazil since the end of the military government in the late 1980s.
[02:46.66]Mr Donadon was convicted three years ago for siphoning off nearly $4m from the state assembly in Rondonia in Brazil's Amazon region.
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[02:59.19]The father of a fugitive CIA analyst Edward Snowden says he's reasonably confident his son will return to the United States to face trial for espionage.
[03:09.85]Lon Snowden was speaking to the American TV channel NBC.
[03:13.37]Jonny Dymond reports from Washington.
[03:15.70]"I love him”, says Lon Snowden of his son Edward.
[03:19.02]“And I want to communicate with him. I don't want to put him in peril.”
[03:23.90]The two men have not spoken since Edward fled to Hong Kong after he leaked classified information about America's huge worldwide covert surveillance operations.
[03:33.68]Lon Snowden says he believes that his son would return voluntarily to the United States