WASHINGTON – U.S. regulators are probing how Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs helped debt-stricken Greece arrange derivatives deals that critics say were used to disguise the size of its budget deficits.
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ABUJA – Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan will keep full executive powers for now, the presidency said yesterday, in an apparent bid to ease fears of a power struggle after the return of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua.
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BAGHDAD – The party of a prominent Sunni Muslim politician banned from taking part in Iraq’s March election yesterday decided not to boycott the poll, easing fears that other Sunni groups would also stay away.
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KABUL – Pakistan has agreed to hand over to Afghanistan captured Afghan Taliban number two, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and other militants, the president’s office said yesterday.
