A roundup of today's other world stories in brief:
Unions to sustain strike in Nigeria
LAGOS -A general strike brought much of Nigeria to a standstill on its first day yesterday and unions threatened to halt oil exports from Africa's top producer unless the government reversed an increase in fuel prices.
Unions vowed to sustain the strike indefinitely despite a series of concessions offered by President Umaru Yar'Adua, who faces the first major test of his government three weeks after taking office.
- (Reuters)
Plea to end Lebanese fighting
BEIRUT- Palestinian mediators yesterday presented the Lebanese army with a plan to end a month of fighting with al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
The plan was drawn up after the mediators - a group of Muslim clerics - met Fatah al-Islam militants holed up at the Nahr al-Bared camp in a bid to quell Lebanon's worst internal violence since a 1975-1990 civil war.
- (Reuters)
Serbia hands over suspect to Bosnia
SARAJEVO- Serbia yesterday handed to Bosnia a former Bosnian Serb prime minister wanted on suspicion of crimes against humanity, Bosnia's state war crimes court said.
The court said Gojko Klickovic was taken into custody at the border by Bosnian authorities.
He was suspected of "ordering and abetting murder" the court said in a statement.
- (Reuters)
Lake in Chile disappears
SANTIAGO- A lake in southern Chile, situated in the Magallanes region in Patagonia and fed by water, mostly from melting glaciers has mysteriously disappeared. One theory is that the area was hit by a tremor that opened a crack in the ground which acted like a drain.
- (Reuters)