TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- Tunisia's ruling Islamist party has chosen an interior minister seen as a hardliner to form a new government, a top official said Friday, in a signal the government is unlikely to back down to opposition demands to try to smooth over the country's political crisis. Fighting resumes in Sudan's Darfur after January outbreak
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Fighting re-erupted in the north and south of Su dan's strife-torn Darfur region, tribal and rebel officials said on Friday, after clashes last month that killed hundreds of people and displaced more than 130,000. Conflict has plagued the vast arid region since mainly non-Arab tribes revolted against the Arab government in Khartoum in 2003, accusing it of political and economic neglect. Violence has ebbed since 2004 but picked up again in recent months. … Cuba's Raul Castro mentions possible retirement
HAVANA (AP) -- HAVANA (AP) -- Cuban President Raul Castro on Friday unexpectedly raised the possibility of leaving his post, saying he is old and has a right to retire. But he did not say when he might do so or if such a move was imminent.
Sodexo says found horse meat in UK beef products
PARIS (Reuters) – French catering and vouchers group Sodexo on Friday said it was withdrawing all frozen beef products in the United Kingdom after having found horse meat in some of its products. “Despite repeated guarantees from our suppliers, our sampling has identified a frozen beef product which tested positive for equine DNA. This situation is totally unacceptable,” Sodexo said in a statement. (Reporting by Astrid Wendlandt; Editing by Christian Plumb)
BBC leaders have harsh words for own corporation
LONDON (AP) -- The BBC is a bloated, top-heavy, and poorly-led corporation staffed by dull executives -- and that’s just what the company’s leadership says.
Iraq gunmen kill 7 Sunni fighters, officials say
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Attackers disguised in military uniforms killed seven anti-al-Qaida militiamen in Iraq early on Friday as anti-government protests once again raged in Iraq’s Sunni provinces.
Syrian regime battles rebels for control of highway to its safe haven
An unremarkable area of flat fields, orchards, farms and small villages lying between the Syrian town of Qusayr and Lebanon's northern border has become a fiercely contested battleground that threatens to expand into Lebanon.
Food Standards Agency finds another 35 positive horsemeat tests
LONDON (Reuters) – The Food Standards Agency said it had found another 35 positive tests for horsemeat in beef pr oducts, confirming the latest contaminations in a scandal still spreading across Europe. The FSA said on Friday it had conducted 3634 tests, 3599 of which had come back negative for horsemeat levels above 1 percent, with 35 results testing positive for horsemeat at or above 1 percent. It said these products had already been named and withdrawn from sale and added that no tests to date on samples containing horse DNA have found the veterinary medicine phenylbutazone (bute). … Pakistan arrests militant leader over Quetta bombings
MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – Police said they arrested the leader of a banned militant group on Friday in connection with sectarian attacks in the northwestern city of Quetta that have killed nearly 200 people this year. Two bombings about month apart targeting the minority Shi'ite community in Quetta, claimed by the Sunni militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), sparked demonstrations across the country and the dismissal of the local government. Police said they arrested LeJ leader, Malik Ishaq, in the town of Rahim Yar Khan at his home on Friday afternoon. … 
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