Center-right claims Denmark election victory

Copenhagen, Denmark

Denmark's center-right prime minister declared victory in Tuesday's election after near-complete returns showed his governing coalition defeated the left-wing opposition.

"Everything indicates that the government can continue," Anders Fogh Rasmussen told jubilant supporters of his Liberal Party. He called it "historic" that a Liberal-led government had been re-elected for a third term.

He spoke shortly after the leader of the key opposition party conceded defeat in an election that focused on immigration, welfare and taxes.

Tehran, Iran

Argentine nationals summoned to court

Iran accused five Argentines with falsely implicating a group of Iranians in the 1994 terrorist bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, state IRNA news agency said Tuesday.

Tehran ordered the five who live in Argentina to appear in an Iranian court. The action came a week after Interpol put four Iranians and one Lebanese man on its most-wanted list for the 1994 blast that killed 85 people and wounded 200. The move was in response to a request from Argentina.

Vancouver, B.C.

Court: Citizenship should be revoked

Canada should revoke the citizenship of a Ukrainian-born man who lied about his past as a Nazi prison guard when he entered Canada in the 1950s, a court ruled Tuesday.

But Federal Court Judge James O'Reilly said immigration officials had failed to prove that Michael Seifert was also the "Beast of Bolzano," who tortured and killed prisoners at Italy's Bolzano prison camp during World War II — a charge he has been convicted of in absentia by an Italian court.

Canadian courts, in a separate proceeding, have already ruled that Seifert can be extradited to Italy because of the conviction. Seifert has acknowledged serving at the camp but has denied involvement in torture or murder.

Yangon, Myanmar

Security forces arrest 2 activists

Myanmar security forces have arrested two prominent anti-government activists — a Buddhist monk and a labor- rights advocate, fellow dissidents said Tuesday.

News of their arrests came as U.N. human-rights investigator Paulo Sergio Pinheiro was on the third day of a five-day mission to investigate human rights conditions in the wake of the government's violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests in September.

U Gambira, a Buddhist monk who helped spearhead pro-democracy demonstrations in Yangon that were crushed by the military junta, was arrested several days ago, and Su Su Nway, a prominent female activist who has been on the run for more than two months, was arrested Tuesday morning.

Also

Stroke: Khieu Samphan, the former Khmer Rouge head of state whose arrest by a U.N.-backed genocide tribunal has been widely anticipated, suffered a stroke Tuesday.

Rebel: Colombian President Álvaro Uribe said Tuesday his armed forces will kill Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia commander Manuel Marulanda if the octogenarian leader emerges from the jungles to negotiate a swap of rebel-held hostages for jailed guerrillas.

Seattle Times news services