act on
it.
This is the World News from the BBC.
Senior officials from the American State Department today visited Moscow to urge Russia to continue allowing the adoption of Russian children by US families.
On Friday, Russia said it was considering suspending all such adoptions after a 7-year-old Russian boy was sent back to Moscow unaccompanied when his
adoptive
American family rejected him.
The Russian president Dmitry Medvedev called the return of the boy a
monstrous
act.
In Sudan, the national election commission has announced its extending voting for 2 days after logistical problems affected the start of the polls. The election will now end on Thursday. Here is James Copnall in Khartoum.
Electoral commission had previously acknowledged some technical mistakes on the first day of the vote. Many polling centers did not open on time after electoral material arrived late was wrong. The decision to extend was taken to make sure everyone would be able to vote according to electoral commission. The body’s been heavily criticized
in particular
by the northern opposition parties and the former southern rebels, the SPLM, many of them have totally or partially boycotted the polls because they believe electoral commission has
rig
ged the polls for president Omar al-Bashir.
South Korea has arrested one of its citizens on suspicion of kidnapping North Korean fugitives in neighboring China and then taking them back to the north where they face harsh punishment. Prosecutors say the man identified only as Kim was recruited years ago by a female North Korean agent. Almost all those fleeing North Korea travel secretly via China.