SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Monday its test-firing of missiles this month was conducted in a “completely safe” way because it made sure ships and aircraft were not in the area before the launch.

ABUJA (Reuters) – The latest violence linked to next year’s elections in Nigeria has killed at least 15 people in two southern states, local leaders and police said on Monday.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, whose country abandoned weapons of mass destruction programs in 2003, said that at one stage Libya had come close to building a nuclear bomb,