10 METRO Friday, October 23, 2009 D MEET DARREN. HEs SIXTEEN GOING ON IMMORTAL. IN CINEMAS TODAY AUNIVERSALPICTURE 2009 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS www.ThEvAMpIrESASSISTANT.CO.uk Ethiopia seeks aid to feed 6.2millionBy tsegaye tadesseETHIOPIA has appealed for 159,410 tonnes of food aid for 6.2million people, 25years after more than a million died in a famine. Aid workers say a five-year drought is afflicting more than 23million people in seven east African nations. Mitiku Kassa, Ethiopias Minister for Agriculture and Rural Develop- ment, said this years rains were es- pecially poor, resulting in an increase in the number of people needing emergency assistance from October to December to 6.2million, up from 4.9million at the start of the year. The country of 83million people urgently needs 159,410 tonnes of food, costing 80.9million, 11 tonnes of fortified blended food for mal- nourished children and women, worth 5.95million, and 30.1mil- lion in other aid, Mr Kassa said. UN official Fidelle Sarassaro urged the Ethiopian government to ensure free access to aid workers to the war- torn eastern Somali region. Yesterday, aid agency Oxfam said that, while short-term emergency aid did save lives, longer-term solutions should be found to deal with disas- ters such as droughts. METROWorld Mexico: An ongoing battle between two drug cartels has pushed Ciudad Juarezs murder rate to new records in 2009. The border city had 1,986 homicides by mid-October this year, up from 1,171 for the same period last year. Killings averaging seven a day in the city of 1.5million have been blamed on a war between the Sinaloa cartel run by Joaquin El Chapo Guzman and the Juarez Cartel, fighting to control the smuggling route between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, over the Texan border. The US this week arrested more than 300 people in 19 states in raids related to one of the Mexican drug smuggling cartels. Sicily: A builder who was transferred to house arrest after serving time in prison for dumping hazardous waste tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife. Santo Gambino, 30, went to police asking to be put away again, but they charged him with violating the conditions of his sentence and told him to go home and patch things up with his wife. The hague: Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said yesterday he would not appear before the war crimes tribunal when his trial starts on October 26, saying he did not have enough time to prepare. Karadzic is charged with 11 counts of war crimes, including genocide, over the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in July 1995 during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. He tried last week to have the trial delayed for ten months, although the tribunals chief prosecutor said he has had 15 months to prepare. auSTralia: An 88-year-old Perth resident accused by Hungary of Nazi war crimes during World War Two surrendered to police yesterday after exhausting his appeals against extradition. Charles Zentai is accused of being one of three men who tortured and killed a Jewish teenager in 1944. Zentai, who emigrated to Australia in 1950, denies being in Budapest when the killing occurred. The Federal Court granted him a 14-day stay on the extradition ruling. Zentai is listed by the US-based, Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center among its ten most wanted for having participated in manhunts, persecution, and murder of Jews in Budapest in 1944. hoNDuraS: Taking refuge at the Brazilian embassy in Honduras since re-entering the country in secret last month, exiled president Manuel Zelaya has is being tormented with recordings of pig grunts and loud rock music played over loudspeakers by the army outside. The provocation by Roberto Michelettis de facto government comes as it resists increasing pressure to let Mr Zelaya back to power, despite the US warning it might not recognise the results of November 29 elections if the ousted leader (pictured) is not reinstated first. a grandmother takes a penalty during training in a tzaneen township, Limpopo province. south african grannies have got World Cup fever, with hundreds swapping domestic chores for football twice a week Picture: Reuters soccEr gran index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html