Brazilian police raided the offices of a company owned by the son of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday as part of a bribery investigation that threatens to drag his family into yet another scandal.
Voters in Congo Republic have overwhelmingly backed a change in the constitution that will allow President Denis Sassou Nguesso to run for a third consecutive term, the results of a referendum showed on Tuesday.
Delegations from Free Syrian Army rebel groups did not visit Moscow, representatives of four factions fighting under the FSA banner told Reuters on Tuesday, denying Russian news agency reports that such visits had taken place.