HARARE, Zimbabwe, July 5 (UPI) -- A British newspaper said Saturday a secret film made for it by a prison guard documents vote-rigging in the recent Zimbabwean presidential election.

The Guardian said the film, smuggled out of the country by former prison guard Shepherd Yuda showed members of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party demanding that prison workers fill in their postal ballots with them watching. The film also allegedly shows party members urging voters to pretend they were illiterate when they went to the polls so election judges could fill in their votes for them.

Mugabe claims to have won the June 27 presidential run-off vote with 90 percent of the vote after the main opposition candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, dropped out of the race in the face of escalating pre-election violence contending a free and fair election was not possible in Zimbabwe.

Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change Party claims as many as 80 of its backers had been slain in the violence and that the opposition has been targeted for repression.

The newspaper said Yuda's film, which was shot over a six-day period prior to the election, also contains footage of MDC General Secretary Tendai Biti in leg irons in jail. Biti is out now free on bail but faces treason charges carrying the death penalty.

Coaltion kills at least 12 Afghan fighters

NURISTAN, Afghanistan, July 5 (UPI) -- NATO coalition troops killed more than a dozen Afghan militants Saturday in a confrontation in country's Nuristan province, military officials say.

U.S.-led coalition troops responded to mortar fire with a ground and helicopter assault assault and two vehicles carrying fleeing fighters were destroyed, CNN reported.

Military leaders also said they were talking to Afghan officials about reports of civilian casualties in the incident, CNN said.

Quake felt off Russia's Far East coast

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia, July 5 (UPI) -- Russian officials say a magnitude 7.1 earthquake centered in the ocean about 250 miles off the country's Far Eastern coast Saturday did no apparent damage.

Local officials in the Kamchatka peninsula reported no injuries or tsunami threat associated with the quake, with struck at 2:10 a.m. Moscow time, RIA Novosti, the Russian news agency, reported. The temblor measured a magnitude 4.0 at the nearest population center, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which is in one of Russia's more seismically unstable regions.

The U.S. Geological Survey National Earthquake Center reported the quake was centered in the Sea of Okhotsk, about 1,410 miles north-northeast of Tokyo and was 393 miles underground, CNN said.

Salmonella probe shifts to jalapenos

WASHINGTON, July 5 (UPI) -- Sources say suspicion has turned from tomatoes to jalapeno peppers in the search for a culprit behind the three-month outbreak of U.S. salmonella poisonings.

Officials close to the investigation told CNN the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Saturday was preparing to halt Mexican shipments of jalapenos and other ingredients commonly used in the making of salsa, beginning Monday. Also on the blacklist will be Mexican cilantro, Serrano peppers, scallions and bulb onions.

Some 1,000 people have been sickened by the salmonella outbreak since April 10, the Centers for Disease Control said. CDC officials initially blamed tomatoes, possibly from Mexico or southern Florida, for the illnesses. But the outbreak continued to spread, so now blame has increasingly shifted to ingredients commonly found in fresh salsa prepared in restaurants, The Wall Street Journal reported, adding that processed and canned salsa found in grocery stores were not suspected.

Lola Russell, a CDC spokesperson, would not confirm or deny to the Journal that jalapeno peppers have emerged as a prime suspect.

Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson told CNN the investigation has indeed shifted to jalapenos and salsa ingredients.