Jakarta disease fears

Jakarta, Feb. 5 (Reuters): More than 50,000 residents in the Indonesian capital have sought treatment for conditions ranging from coughs to diarrhoea after days of floods.

The flooding has displaced 340,000 people and killed nearly 30.

Russia tycoon

Moscow (Reuters): Russian prosecutors on Monday brought new charges against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a move likely to bury the politically ambitious tycoon’s hopes of release from jail before elections.

UK flu ban

Holton, England (Reuters): Russia and Japan banned British poultry imports as Britain pressed ahead with a cull of 160,000 turkeys after the nation’s first outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu.