• Zimbawe Awaits Results
  
• Negotiations Continue for Betancourt's Release
  
• Curfew Eased in Baghdad
  
• Pakistan Politics
  
• Dengue Fever Outbreak
  

DENGUE FEVER OUTBREAK
Field hospitals began operation today in Rio de Janeiro in
an effort to combat an epidemic of Dengue Fever. Deborah Pill reports from Rio
de Janeiro.

PAKISTAN POLITICS
The Pakistani President has sworn in 24 new ministers today.
Eleven of the ministers are from the Pakistan People’s Party of assassinated
former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. And the Taliban has welcomed an offer by
the newly elected Prime Minister to hold talks and has asked Islamabad to
abandon the US led war on terror. Rahman Ullah is in Peshawar.

CURFEW EASED IN BAGHDAD
Baghdad’s green Zone came under mortar fire today after THE
Iraqi government partially lifted a curfew it imposed Thursday. Hiba Dawood has
more.

NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE FOR BETANCOURT’S RELEASE
Renewed efforts are under way to persuade FARC guerillas to
release former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt – who is said to be
seriously ill. A French presidential jet carrying a medical team and emergency
medical equipment was waiting on a runway in French Guyana to ferry her to
France. France is ready to take in Colombian rebels freed from jail in t heir
homeland in exchange for Betancourt. Betancourt has spent more than six years
as a hostage in the Colombian jungle.

ZIMBABWE AWAITS RESULTS
Zimbababwe’s two major parties are running neck and neck as
results trickle in today from Saturday’s poll. The election was largely
peaceful but is marred by the electoral body’s delay in releasing results.
Davison Makanga has more.