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American health authorities say the cholera strain which has killed more than 330 people in Haiti most closely resembles a strain found in South Asia. The US Centre for Disease Control found that Haitian cholera patients had all been infected by the same strain of the disease. The Haitian health minister said it was unlikely to have originated in Haiti.
A judge in Uganda has ordered a newspaper to stop publishing the names, addresses and photographs of people it says are homosexual.A Uganda gay rights group minortity requested the injunction after the newspaper published for a second time the identities of some people it said were homosexual. A spokesperson for the group, Pepe Julian Onziema, said the newspaper caused a lot of problems in the gay community.
"It created a lot of scare. The community were very afraid. For myself, it was like 'I cannot keep only living in fear in this country'. My rights have been violated by me being outed in that paper, and my colleagues as well."
The newspaper editor last month defended his decision to name homosexuals, saying they were trying to recruit children.
The Turkish Kurd militant group, the PKK, has said it had nothing to do with a suicide bomb attack in Istanbul on Sunday, in which 32 people were wounded. The group said it was out of the question that any of its fighters could carry out a bombing which would hurt civilians.
Police in Northern Ireland say a bomb discovered in a car at Belfast International Airport at the weekend could have been there since last year. The device, found in the long-stay car park near the airport, was found to contain flammable liquid. It was made safe by a bomb disposal team.