GENEVA - ZIMBABWE'S cholera epidemic is picking up speed, with a total of 1,732 deaths out of 34,306 cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.
BRATISLAVA - SLOVAKIA will declare a state of emergency on Tuesday after Russian gas supplies to the country fell by 70 per cent overnight, Economy Minister Lubomir Jahnatek said at a press conference in Bratislava.
PARIS - AIR Traffic limped back to normal on Tuesday at Paris' main international airport, where thousands of passengers were stranded overnight after heavy snow cancelled scores of flights, officials said.
JERUSALEM - HAMAS, facing a massive Israeli air and ground assault on its Gaza Strip stronghold, has the capacity to fire rockets and mortars at Israel for weeks, the Maariv daily quoted an intelligence report as saying on Tuesday.
