Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted by the military, met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and regional leaders today in a show of support designed to restore him as head of the Central American country. Zelaya said soldiers surrounded his house and forced him at gunpoint to board a plane for Costa Rica yesterday. His opponents accused him of seeking to change the constitution through a referendum in an attempt to hold onto power. Honduran lawmakers named Roberto Micheletti, the head of Congress, as president and accused Zelaya of “repeated violations of the constitution.”  The Honduran army ousted Zelaya and exiled him in Central America’s first military coup since the Cold War, after he upset the army by trying to win re-election. The coup was condemned by the U.S., European Union and Organization of American States, which said they won’t recognize any new government. Regional leaders called an emergency summit today in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua. Chavez said on state television if his ambassador to Honduras was killed, or if troops entered the Venezuelan Embassy, “that military junta would be entering a de facto state of war. We would have to act militarily … I have put the armed forces of Venezuela on alert.” Kenya’s health officials have stepped-up surveillance at airports and other points of entry following the confirmation of the first H1N1 flu case in the country. Today, Public Health and Sanitation minister Beth Mugo said tests carried out on samples of a 20-year-old British student at the Kenya Medical Research Institute and National Influenza Centre had tested positive for Influenza A (H1N1) popularly known as swine flu. Following the confirmation, Mrs Mugo has, however, moved fast in allaying fears by urging Kenyans not to panic over the disease. “Swine flu is a relatively mild illness in areas affected, and therefore there should be no cause for panic… In a majority of cases, the disease does not require hospitalisation and it’s most likely that there will be more cases of H1N1 in Kenya.If any of the contacts will exhibit flu-like symptoms, they will be tested and if found positive, they will be appropriately managed.” Oil rose to $70 a barrel today after Nigeria’s main militant group said it attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil platform, outweighing a fairly bearish report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said its fighters struck the Shell Forcados platform in the Delta state. There was no immediate independent confirmation but Shell said it shut in some oil production at its western operations in the Delta while it investigated reports of attacks. U.S. crude for August delivery rose to a high of $70.06 per barrel, up 90 cents, before slipping back slightly to $69.75. ”The Nigerian supply disruptions brought in some buying,” said Christopher Bellew, broker at Bache Commodities in London. This follows a report on Friday, when four militant Nigerian factions said they would accept in principle an amnesty offer from President Umaru Yar’Adua, raising hopes Africa’s top oil producer would halt a battle with rebels.