News in Brief

Date: 11 May 2016 - 20:55

News ID: ۲۶۵۵۸

LONDON (AFP) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said Wednesday that he did not want an apology from Prime Minister David Cameron for calling his country "fantastically corrupt”, but said Britain could return assets stolen by officials who fled to London.
"I am not going to demand any apology from anybody. What I am demanding is the return of the assets,” Buhari told an anti-corruption event hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat in London.
He noted the case of Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, a former governor of oil-rich Bayelsa state who was detained in London on charges of money-laundering in 2005, but skipped bail by disguising himself as a woman.
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BERLIN (AP) — A fire has broken out at a large shopping center in Berlin specializing in Vietnamese goods. The city’s fire department is cautioning local residents to keep their doors and windows closed to avoid billowing black smoke.
The fire broke out Wednesday morning at the Dong Xuan Center in Berlin’s eastern Lichtenberg district. The fire department sent some 150 trucks and other vehicles to the scenes. Nobody was thought to be inside the 7,000-square meter (75,000-square foot) market hall where the fire broke out, and there were no immediate details on a possible cause.
The market stocks goods including textiles, electronics and groceries.
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NEW DELHI (Dispatches) - An Indian woman who gave birth at the age of 70 said Tuesday she was not too old to become a first-time mother, adding that her life was now complete.
Daljinder Kaur gave birth last month to a boy following two years of IVF treatment at a fertility clinic in the northern state of Haryana with her 79-year-old husband.
Kaur said the couple, married for 46 years, had almost lost hope of ever having a child and had faced ridicule in a country where infertility is sometimes seen as a curse from God.
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NAIROBI (AP) — Kenya’s interior minister says the government will close Dadaab refugee camp which has hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees and is often referred to as the world’s largest refugee camp.
Joseph Nkaissery said Wednesday that Daadab camp compromises Kenya’s security because it harbors Somalia’s al-Shabab Islamic extremists and is a conduit for smuggling weapons. He said al-Shabab planned three large-scale attacks from Daadab, which hosts more than 328,000 refugees, mainly from Somalia.
Last week the Kenyan government announced it intends to close Daadab and Kakuma, a refugee camp housing 190,000 people, mostly South Sudanese fleeing civil war. But on Wednesday Nkaissery said Kakuma will not be closed because it does not present a security risk.