A South African court granted bail Wednesday to one of two men arrested while trying to sell a kilogram of uranium, a prosecutor said.

"Sibusiso Mkhize was given bail of 2,000 rand ($200/145 euros)," prosecution spokeswoman Natasha Ramkisson told Agence France Presse.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan charged Wednesday that the detention of dozens of people in a high-profile graft probe was an "ugly" operation against his government.

Five police chiefs have been sacked in the wake of the dawn raids on Tuesday which led to the arrest of the sons of three ministers and several top business leaders, sending shockwaves through Turkey's political establishment.

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan lost his majority in parliament on Wednesday after 37 lawmakers bolted his party for a new opposition coalition, the latest political blow to hit the embattled leader.

In a letter presented to the speaker of the lower house, the lawmakers elected under Jonathan's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) declared that they had joined the All Progressives Congress, stripping the PDP of its majority in 360-seat chamber.

Talks between experts from Iran and world powers on implementing last month's nuclear deal will resume on Thursday in Geneva, a spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Wednesday.

"The technical talks will be resumed tomorrow and continue until Friday" in Geneva, Nabila Massrali told Agence France Presse via email.

Slovakia's leftist Prime Minister Robert Fico said Wednesday he will stand in next year's presidential elections, ending months of speculation and instantly becoming a front-runner.

"I have officially decided to run for president," Fico told journalists in Bratislava, adding that he fancied his chances: "I am in good political shape," he said.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Wednesday she will not weigh in on U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden's offer to help thwart Washington's cyberspying.

"I don't think the government needs to comment. (Snowden) did not send us anything," she told reporters. "I won't weigh in."

The Colombian army said Wednesday five FARC guerrillas were killed during a military operation, days after the rebel force declared a unilateral ceasefire.

The dead included the leader of a FARC unit, Arnulfo Suarez Gonzalez, known as Alberto Guevara, who the army said was engaged in drug trafficking.

Thousands of protesters from the Forconi (Pitchforks) movement including far-right activists rallied in Rome on Wednesday for an anti-austerity protest.

Protesting against Italy's widely discredited political class, they chanted "Go home!" and "Go and work!"

South Sudan President Salva Kiir said Wednesday he is willing to hold talks with his arch-rival former deputy he accuses of leading a coup bid against him.

Kiir has accused soldiers loyal to Riek Machar of staging a coup attempt in the oil-rich but deeply impoverished nation, which has struggled with instability since becoming independent in 2011.

India has transferred a diplomat at the center of a political row with the United States to its U.N. mission in New York to give her full diplomatic immunity, local media reported Wednesday.

The transfer of deputy consular general Devyani Khobragade to the United Nations Permanent Mission came after Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid pledged to "restore the dignity" of the diplomat who was strip-searched during her 48-hour detention in New York last week.