World highlights

• A Lebanese Sunni preacher led thousands of anti-government Shi'ite protesters in prayers, in a show of Muslim unity designed to dispel fears of sectarian strife. The Hezbollah-led opposition has besieged government headquarters for the past week to try to topple the Western-backed cabinet of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.

• Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told Iranians that Palestinians would never bow to pressure to recognise Israel and would keep fighting thanks in part to support from Iran. Addressing worshippers at Friday prayers in Tehran, where he arrived on Thursday for a four-day official visit, Mr Haniyeh said Israeli military aggression against Palestinians had increased since his Hamas government took power in March.

• Serbian war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj has ended his hunger strike in detention at the UN tribunal in The Hague after the court's Appeals Chamber restored his right to represent himself, the court said. The Serb ultranationalist leader is charged with the murder and persecution of non-Serbs during wars with Croats and Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s.

• A militant group which has crippled Nigeria's oil industry threatened new attacks and claimed responsibility for Thursday's raid on an oil export terminal in which four foreign workers were kidnapped.