Mexico
Blast attributed to anti-tech group
MEXICO CITY - A prosecutor says an anti-technology group is responsible for a package bomb that injured two university professors.
Prosecutor Alfredo Castillo says a group calling itself Individuals Tending to Savagery had signed a partially destroyed note found at the scene.
Castillo said Tuesday that the group opposes experiments with nanotechnology and has staged attacks on academics before.
Guatemala
President's ex-wife can't succeed him
In the end, the first couple's divorce gambit failed.
Sandra Torres, until a few months ago the wife of Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom, is ineligible to try to succeed him in next month's elections after the nation's highest court ruled that their breakup of convenience had come too late.
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Colom, a leftist, and Torres divorced last spring to get around a constitutional ban on a president's close relatives running for the office. Colom cannot seek re-election.
The ruling boosts the chances of retired Gen. Otto Perez Molina, 60, who was a ranking intelligence officer during the U.S.-backed government's war against leftist rebels.
AUSTRALIA
PM faces new pressure on gay-marriage issue
SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday welcomed news that Finance Minister Penny Wong's lesbian partner was expecting their first child but said she still opposes gay marriage.
"Penny Wong is a colleague of mine; she's also a very long-term friend, so I'm very pleased for Penny and her partner Sophie... ," Gillard told reporters in Canberra.
"Clearly there are strong views about same-sex marriage in the community. I've made my views clear."
Pressure is building on Gillard, who is childless, unmarried and who lives with her male partner, to get in step with many in her party who want the law changed.
Last weekend, the Tasmanian branch of the Labor Party became the seventh of Australia's eight state and territory branches to pass a motion supporting gay marriage.
Sweden
Report: Queen's dad had weak tie to Nazis
STOCKHOLM - The queen's father helped at least one Jew escape Hitler's Germany, according to a report commissioned by Queen Silvia in response to media allegations about his Nazi past.
The report - published Tuesday - said that although Walther Sommerlath belonged to the NSDAP Nazi party, he appeared to have been an inactive member and had helped a Jewish businessman escape the Holocaust.
Swedish media reported in 2002 that Sommerlath had joined Germany's Nazi party in 1934 and took over Efim Wechsler's consumer goods company under unclear circumstances in 1939.
But in Tuesday's report, World War II expert Erik Norberg said documents indicate that just before World War II started Sommerlath helped Wechsler escape Germany to South America, where he had offered him a coffee plantation in exchange for the company.
The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants on Tuesday dismissed the report's findings as "self-serving" and lacking credibility.
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