DEYANG, China -- A strong aftershock hit China's battered Sichuan region on Friday, causing landslides, knocking out telephone lines and burying vehicles, according to state media. There were no immediate reports of deaths.

The aftershock, the latest in a series this week, could be felt in Chengdu, a major city 75 miles to the southeast.

"I was using the computer on the second floor when it hit and jumped up and ran," said Yu Ping, 21, a hotel worker in Chengdu, the provincial capital. "It was so scared, I can still feel it."

Across the quake zone Friday, rescue teams rushed to isolated mountain villages and previously inaccessible communities, hoping to save those still trapped under the rubble. Several people reportedly were pulled out alive, but after five days most of those recovered were dead.

Sichuan provincial officials put the latest death toll at 22,069, nearly 3,000 higher than the day before, though the national government has said it expects the figure to reach 50,000. The officials also said there were 14,000 people still buried, 159,000 injured and 4.8 million homeless.

But statistics only went so far in portraying the effect. Hospitals were a study in the misery of people injured and homeless.

"I dragged my daughter-in-law outside our house, otherwise she would be dead," said Cui Xiangyu, a 63-year-old farmer, pointing to the woman, whose fingers were smashed and chest badly bruised. Cui, her own leg smashed, was sharing a three-bed room in Deyang People's Hospital No. 2 with the woman and three other patients.

HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Seven weeks after the presidential election, Zimbabwe finally set a runoff date Friday, saying longtime President Robert Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai will face off in a June 27 ballot that the opposition fears will be skewed by thuggery and fraud.

Opposition supporters have been beaten, killed and driven from their homes in a recent campaign of terror that observers say is meant to secure Mugabe's lock on power.

Tsvangirai had insisted Thursday that the runoff be held next week, amid fears further delay would mean even more violence, but he said after the election commission's announcement that he planned to compete in the ballot.

Tsvangirai, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an international liberal party conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland, said setting the June date was illegal, but "we will contest."

The opposition leader has claimed he won the March 29 presidential election outright, although independent monitors disagreed. Official results released May 2 gave Tsvangirai the most votes, but not the majority needed to avoid a second round against Mugabe.

In parliamentary elections held with the presidential ballot, the opposition won a majority of the seats, ending the ruling party's long control of the assembly.

MOSCOW -- The members of a doomsday sect who quit on Friday the dugout in central Russia where they had been waiting for the end of the world for around six months are to pack their bags and leave for home with the planet still intact.

"Documents are being prepared by immigration officials to allow those [three] sect members who are from Belarus to return to their homeland," said Alexander Provotorov, the head of the Bekov District in the Penza Region.

"The rest, Russian citizens, also plan to go home. They have all agreed to leave the area voluntarily," he added, also saying that none of the sect members was from the Penza Region.

The story has gripped Russia since 35 members of the sect went underground in November to wait for the end of the world, which they initially claimed would come in May. The group's leader, Pyotr Kuznetsov, is reported to have said that they would be given the power to decide who would be sent to hell and who would go to heaven after the Apocalypse. The sect pledged to commit mass suicide if any attempt was made to force them to come to the surface.

Following the collapse of the dugout's roof after heavy rain in late March, 24 members of the group quit the shelter. It was subsequently revealed that two members of the sect had perished in the dugout, one from malnutrition brought about during fasting and another from cancer. Both bodies were buried in the shelter.

The remaining nine sect members then said they would come to the surface after a religious holiday in mid-June.

The end of the sect members' wait for the End came on Friday as the stench from the dead bodies led to them agreeing to rescue workers' proposals to remove the corpses. As the corpses were being pulled out, rescuers suggested that the sect members also come to the surface, and they agreed.

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Interpol said Thursday that it is "absolutely certain" that documents linking the Venezuelan and Ecuadorean governments to Colombia's FARC guerillas came from computers belonging to slain rebel leader Raul Reyes and that the documents were not modified or altered in any way.

Investigators from the international security body examined three laptop computer hard drives, three portable thumb drives and two external hard drives that the Colombian government said it seized after a cross-border raid March 1 that killed Reyes in Ecuador.

"We are absolutely certain that the computers came from a jungle camp and they belonged to the FARC. It was the physical equipment belonging to Reyes," Ronald Noble, head of Interpol, said during a news conference.

Interpol's forensic exam was limited to certifying the integrity of the electronic files. Investigators did not analyze the content of close to 38,000 e-mails and 210,000 pictures and videos, which indicate that the Marxist-inspired FARC rebels had a cozy relationship with the governments of both Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Rafael Correa in Ecuador.

The documents released so far by Colombian authorities indicate that rebel leaders met regularly with Venezuelan Interior Minister Ramon Rodriguez Chacin, who on at least one occasion asked the FARC to provide guerrilla warfare training for an unidentified armed group in Venezuela.

The documents also indicate that the rebels were trying to acquire anti-aircraft missiles and uranium on the black market, that they claimed to have contributed $100,000 to Correa's presidential campaign and that they were promised friendly border officers by the interior minister of Ecuador, Gustavo Larrea.

Interpol said in a statement distributed Wednesday that it actually worked from "mirror images" -- copies of the disks -- not from the originals. Colombia's judicial police kept the originals to safeguard what it considers potential evidence for future prosecutions, officials said.

John Christopher, senior data recovery engineer at DriveSavers, a data recovery service based in California, said that an analyst can get the same amount of information from a mirror image as from the original.

"It's a very common practice in data recovery," he said.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Leaders of Lebanon's U.S.-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition went to Qatar Friday for the highest-level talks since the country's political crisis began 18 months ago.

The talks on forming a national unity government and electing a president were agreed under a deal between feuding factions to end the worst violence since the country's 1975-1990 civil war. The two sides will begin negotiating on Saturday.

A political standoff has paralyzed the country and left it without a president since Emil Lahoud's term ended last November.

A week ago, the standoff dissolved into violence when the government passed measures to rein in Iranian-backed Hezbollah. Hezbollah fighters overran neighborhoods of west Beirut and clashes left 66 people dead and over 200 wounded.