WASHINGTON – U.S. regulators are probing how Wall Street  firms like Goldman Sachs helped debt-stricken Greece arrange  derivatives deals that critics say were used to disguise the  size of its budget deficits.
- – - -
ABUJA – Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan will keep  full executive powers for now, the presidency said yesterday,  in an apparent bid to ease fears of a power struggle after the  return of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua.
- – - -
BAGHDAD – The party of a prominent Sunni Muslim politician  banned from taking part in Iraq’s March election yesterday  decided not to boycott the poll, easing fears that other Sunni  groups would also stay away.
- – - -
KABUL – Pakistan has agreed to hand over to Afghanistan  captured Afghan Taliban number two, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar,  and other militants, the president’s office said yesterday.