S.African union leaders meet as strike continues (AFP) AFP – Striking civil servants’ unions held a second day of meetings in South Africa on Friday as an impasse between government and workers dragged out a crippling 17-day strike. See full article at Yahoo! News

Judges: Karadzic trial could take extra 2 years (AP) AP – Judges warned Friday that Radovan Karadzic’s genocide trial could stretch into 2014 — two years longer than expected — if prosecutors and the former Bosnian Serb leader do not speed up the case. See full article at Yahoo! News

Fidel Castro dusts off military uniform (AP) AP – Fidel Castro dusted off his military fatigues for the first time since stepping down as president four years ago, a symbolic act in a Communist country where little signals often carry enormous significance. See full article at Yahoo! News

Mexico: Soldiers kill 25 in troubled border state (AP) AP – Soldiers killed at least 25 suspected cartel members Thursday in a raid and gunbattle in a Mexican state near the U.S. border that has become one of the most dangerous battlegrounds in the country’s drug war. See full article at Yahoo! News

Religious Minorities Suffering Worst in Pakistan Floods (Time.com) Time.com – Amid the catastrophes, the country’s religious minorities are under assault — and one group has allegedly been denied official assistance See full article at Yahoo! News