Pak fever deaths

Karachi, Nov. 26 (Reuters): Haemorrhagic fever has killed at least five people, including a woman doctor, and infected around 45 people in Pakistan’s biggest city of Karachi, health officials said today.

The cause of the doctor’s death last week has been identified as Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever. The remaining four deaths were also caused by haemorrhagic fever but the exact type was still not known

Harare polls

Harare (Reuters): Voter apathy hit Zimbabwe’s elections for a new Senate on Saturday, further denting the credibility of a poll partly boycotted by the Opposition which said its aim was to consolidate President Mugabe’s rule.

Gaza control

Rafah, Gaza Strip (Reuters): Palestinians asserted control for the first time over an international frontier on Saturday as hundreds of Gazans moved across a newly opened terminal at Rafah into neighbouring Egypt.

UK rocker

Hanoi (Reuters): Vietnamese police have pressed child molestation charge against British rocker Gary Glitter who faces up to 12 years in a Vietnamese jail if convicted.