Feuding Lebanese factions agree to hold talks
(AP) - An Arab mediator says Hezbollah has agreed to hold talks with the government and remove a roadblock that has shut down the airport for a week.
The move comes after the Cabinet reversed measures aimed at reining in the Shiite militant group.
Qatari Prime Minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, the head of an Arab League mediation team in Lebanon, said the feuding factions will hold talks in Qatar on Friday.
The news came after the government rescinded two moves against Hezbollah that sparked the worst violence since Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war.
The government backed down from decisions to remove the airport security chief for alleged ties to Hezbollah and to declare the militants' private telephone network illegal.
Myanmar cyclone death toll soars above 43,000
(AP) - Myanmar's junta warned Thursday that legal action would be taken against people who trade or hoard international aid as the cyclone's death toll soared above 43,000.
Firefighters get upper hand on Florida wildfire
A man accused of lobbing a Molotov cocktail into woods that are among the thousands of acres that have burned along Florida's Atlantic coast conceded Thursday that he may have accidentally sparked a fire.
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