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<B>CAIRO -Six journalists detained. </B>Egyptian security briefly detained at least six journalists covering a protest yesterday in support of judges who are facing a disciplinary committee for criticising election abuses last year, a Reuters witness said. Plainclothes policemen dragged away cameramen from news organisations, including Reuters and Al Jazeera television, and confiscated their cameras. An Al Jazeera cameraman was badly beaten. Plainclothes policemen also beat demonstrators trying to protest in Cairo in support of the judges. Thousands of riot police deployed to prevent the protests.
<B>BANGLADESH -Elephant stampede kills a child. </B>Bangladesh One child was killed and 30 people were injured yesterday when two wild elephants wrecked parts of a refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh, police said. They said the elephants strayed into the camp for Myanmar Muslim refugees from the nearby forest and destroyed dozens of bamboo shelters.
MANILA -Freak tornado claims one victim.</B> A freak tornado hit a farming area north of the Philippine capital Manila, killing a 50 year-old woman and leaving about 400 people homeless, a senior police official said yesterday.
<B>PARIS -Rumsfeld concerned about China and Russia. </B>The United States is concerned about Russia’s use of its energy resources as a political weapon and China’s lack of transparency over military spending, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was quoted as saying. In an opinion piece printed in France’s Le Figaro daily yesterday, Rumsfeld said the US focus was currently on Iraq and Afghanistan but that in the future, its policies would be determined by choices made by other powers such as China and Russia.
<B>KENYA -White farmer arrested.</B> Kenyan police have arrested a prominent white farmer after he allegedly shot dead a suspected poacher, nearly a year after prosecutors dropped a murder charge against him for killing a game ranger. Police said Thomas Cholmondeley, one of Kenya’s largest landowners and son of the 5th Baron Delamere, said the middle-aged dead man was slaughtering wild animals on his farm.
<B>SOMALIA -Death toll rises to 120. </B>Fighting in Mogadishu continued killing at least 20 more people including a pregnant woman and her three children, as residents fled their homes, a militia leader said yesterday.
The deaths brings to 120 the number of people reported killed in fresh fighting that erupted earlier this week.
The latest battle is the third round of fighting this year between gunmen allied to Islamic courts and militia from a self-styled anti-terrorism alliance of powerful warlords. “At least 20 people have died since last night,” saidSayid Mohamed, a militia leader linked to the Islamic court.
“Siisii has been turned into a battleground. So many houses have been shelled and hundreds of residents are fleeing. It’s a catastrophe.” Siisii is a shanty town in Mogadishu.
<B>SOUTH AFRICA -Zuma’s accusator flees.</B>The woman who accused South Africa’s former Deputy President Jacob Zuma of rape has fled into exile after a judge acquitted Zuma of the politically explosive charge, a local daily reported yestersday. Johannesburg’s Sunday Times said at the weekend authorities had decided to send the woman into exile over concerns for her safety following the trial during which Zuma’s supporters shouting “burn the bitch” set alight photos of the accuser in front of the courthouse.
<B> BEIJING -Parents sue game distributor. </B>The parents of a 13-year-old boy who killed himself after playing a computer game for 36 hours are suing the game’s licenced Chinese distributor for 100,000 yuan ($12,500), a Chinese newspaper reported yestersday.
In 2004, Zhang Xiaoyi, from the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, jumped out of a window of his family’s 24th floor apartment after playing Warcraft at an internet cafe.
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