Oil of War

The lifestyle and business relationships of Julius Malema, an official of the ruling African National Congress, are coming under intense scrutiny. His dealings, among others, are prompting calls for “lifestyle audits” to help root out corruption.

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The body of Tassos Papadopoulos, who died of lung cancer in December 2008 at age 74, was found dumped in a Nicosia cemetery Tuesday. Why it was taken isn’t clear. The country’s justice minister said the motive was ransom, but the family says it never got any demands.

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UNICEF estimates that more than 20,000 children lost their parents in the Jan. 12 quake and its aftermath. Relatives or neighbors are caring for many of these children. Others, such as a group of boys in a Port-au-Prince park, are fending for themselves.

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World War II ended more than six decades ago, but one Russian village on the Baltic Sea is still coming to terms with its role in the Holocaust. In Yantarny, Russia, then part of East Prussia, thousands of Jews were killed in 1945. Even now, some villagers are still unaware of what happened.

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden calls on Israel to “take risks for peace” during a two-day trip that marked the highest-level visit to Israel by an Obama administration official. Biden’s comments come a day after Israelis and Palestinians agreed to indirect peace talks.

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Mideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its secretive nuclear activities.

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Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, about 4 million Iraqis have fled their homes. Another 2 million have fled the country entirely. Throughout the war, NPR’s Deborah Amos has spent much of her time with Iraqis, who fled to Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. She has a new book out: Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East.

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In what appears to be a vengeance attack, hundreds of Christian villagers in Nigeria were slaughtered by a group of Muslims on Sunday. The villages were outside the city of Jos, which sits in the center of the country, along the divide between the Muslim north and the Christian south. Mannir Dan-Ali, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Trust newspaper in the Nigerian capital Abuja, talks to Renee Montagne up the renewed attacks.

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