A round-up of today's other world stories in brief
Opposition ahead in Zambian polls
LUSAKA - Zambia's opposition leader Michael Sata has drawn ahead of acting president Rupiah Banda in the presidential election, according to preliminary results from about 13 per cent of constituencies.
Mr Sata, who heads the Patriotic Front, had 187,863 votes versus 96,325 votes for Mr Banda, election officials announced yesterday. - (Reuters)
Privileges taken from Rabin killer
JERUSALEM - Israel has withheld telephone privileges and family visits from the jailed assassin of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin to punish him for giving television interviews.
Israel's prison authorities acted after excerpts of the interviews with Yigal Amir, jailed for life for killing Rabin in 1995, were condemned by officials after their publication in a daily newspaper.- (Reuters)
Uribe third term bill voted down
BOGOTA - The surprise failure this week of a bill in Colombia's Congress aimed at allowing President Alvaro Uribe a third term revealed fractures in his coalition that could doom his chances of being re-elected.
The measure would have allowed the popular Mr Uribe to run for office again in 2014, after sitting out four years from 2010 when his current term ends.- (Reuters)
Tourists killed in Egypt crash
CAIRO - Six Belgian tourists have been killed and 29 injured when their coach overturned in southern Egypt, according to the state news agency Mena. The coach was travelling yesterday between the town of Aswan and Abu Simbel, the site of temples dating from the time of the Pharaoh Ramses II. - (Reuters)
Jet overshoots Canaries runway
MADRID - A Spanish jet overshot the runway and stopped metres from the sea as it landed in the Canary Islands yesterday but no one was hurt. The Air Europa aircraft had flown from Glasgow with 74 passengers on board.- (Reuters)