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A US trade adviser appointed by Barack Obama orchestrated a deal to buy gold worth millions of dollars from a wanted Congolese warlord, according to a UN report.Kase Lawal, a Nigerian-born US oil tycoon, transferred millions of dollars to the notorious rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda between December 2010 and February 2011 as part of the deal, the report by the UN's Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) states.If true, this would be a contravention of UN resolutions banning...

Mitt Romney greets supporters following his Nevada caucus victory over Newt Gingrich. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP Newt Gingrich scrambled on Sunday to keep his presidential bid alive after a heavy defeat in the Nevada caucus, vowing as a conservative to hound frontrunner Mitt Romney to the last.But the exit polls in Nevada showed Gingrich's support among the very conservative and among evangelicals bleeding away, as Republican voters of various shades latch on to Romney as...

Syria's Local Co-ordination Committees issue image of mourners gather around coffins and victims killed in the bombardment. Photograph: Local Co-ordination Committees in Syria/AP Syrian forces persisted with one of the deadliest attacks of the 11-month uprising on Sunday, pounding parts of Homs even as residents combed through rubble looking for victims of a sustained barrage over the weekend that killed dozens, if not scores of people.Homs residents said the flashpoint area...

Fans rush the pitch during the riots that erupted after the match between Al-Masry and Al-Ahl in Port Said. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images Twin brothers who play for the football team Al-Masry, whose match against a rival team in Egypt ended in a massacre, claim the violence was encouraged by the police with the backing of the army.Captain Karim Zekri and his brother, Mohamed, told the website CommentMidEast.com that there was strong evidence the bloodshed was planned. More...

A survivor of the Dominican Republic migrant boat sinking rests in hospital. Photograph: Listina Diario/AFP/Getty An overloaded boat carrying migrants from the Dominican Republic overturned in the pre-dawn darkness on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and leaving dozens missing, officials said.The migrants had left from near the town of Nagua, on the country's north-east coast, and were apparently headed to the US island territory of Puerto Rico, a frequent destination for...

Anti-government protesters march in Moscow. The banner reads: 'Russia without Putin and for fair elections'. Photograph: Andrey Smirnov/AFP/Getty Images Tens of thousands of demonstrators have braved temperatures of -18C in Moscow to march through the city shouting "Russia without Putin" and calling for a rerun of disputed elections.In the latest of a series of mass gatherings since allegations of widespread government vote-rigging at the parliamentary poll on 4 December, the...

A poll in the Las Vegas Review-Journal has Mitt Romney (pictured) on 45% in Nevada, with his main rival, Newt Gingrich, on 25%. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney has coasted to victory in the latest of the party presidential contests, the Nevada caucuses, and increased the gap to his rivals.CNN and other television networks projected that Romney had won the state after the caucuses closed.Nevada brings his tally to three, on top of...

Russia and China have vetoed a UN security council resolution calling for the Syrian president to step down, provoking a furious reaction.All 13 other members of the council, including the US, France and Britain, voted in favour of the resolution, which backed an Arab peace plan aimed at stopping the violence in Syria. Russia and China blocked the resolution because of what they perceived to be a potential violation of Syria's sovereignty, which could allow for military intervention or regime...

Protesters at the Syrian embassy in Berlin, one of the capitals where demonstrations have broken out after the massacre in Homs. Photograph: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Five people have been arrested during a demonstration at the Syrian embassy in London, Scotland Yard said. There have been further demonstrations at Syrian missions in other countries over the massacre of civilians in Homs.About 150 demonstrators descended on the London embassy in Belgrave Square amid reports of...

An anti-regime demonstration in the city of al-Qsair, south-west of Homs where activists say Syrian forces have killed more than 200 people. Photograph: Alessio Romenzi/AFP/Getty More than 200 people have been killed in shelling by Syrian forces in the city of Homs, according to activists, as the UN security council prepares to vote on a draft resolution backing an Arab call for President Bashar al-Assad to resign.As news of the violence spread, a crowd of Syrians stormed...