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Daily News… FRANCE CONFIRMS FIRST CASE OF HORSEMEAT DISGUISED AS BEEF France on Tuesday became the second European country after Britain to confirm that frozen ready-to-eat meals supposedly made of beef contained horsemeat. Picard, a retailer which has hundreds of outlets across France, said tests had confirmed that horsemeat was present in two lots of frozen «beef» lasagne meals it removed from its shelves last week after the scandal broke. It said the products were made by Comigel, the French firm at the heart of the food scare spreading across Europe, and said it was now waiting for results of a probe by French officials to determine «at what level the fraud is situated». Picard was one of several major French retailers that last week pulled products made by Comigel, which produced the Findus lasagne that was found by Britain to contain up to 100 percent horsemeat. Retailers in Britain, Sweden, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands have been removing Comigel products such as meatballs, hamburgers, minced meat and lasagne after the firm alerted Findus to the presence of horsemeat in its meals. Health officials have been testing frozen food products in these countries but so far only Britain and France have found cases of wrongly labelled meat. Comigel denies any wrongdoing and has said it got its meat from another French firm, Spanghero, which said it was supplied from two abattoirs in Romania who allegedly passed off horsemeat as beef. But Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Tuesday angrily denied his country was to blame. He said Spanghero did not have a direct contract with Romanian firms and that checks carried out since last week had shown that there had been no violation of European rules and standards by the abattoirs. Ireland’s agriculture minister has called a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday with the EU’s health commissioner Tonio Borg and other top officials to discuss action needed at the EU level to resolve the issue.
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International News… THAI ‘KISSATHON’ Nine Thai couples locked lips Tuesday in hope of setting a new record for the world’s longest kiss, but the attempt proved too much for two septuagenarians who dropped out after just one hour. The participants, who must kiss for more than 50 hours, 25 minutes and one second to enter the Guinness World Records, were forbidden from sitting down and could only go to the bathroom after the first six hours. «They have to continue kissing while they go to the toilet and can only drink water or milk through straws,» said an event spokeswoman.
EGYPT WOMEN RAISE THEIR VOICE AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE Egyptian protesters took to the street again to demand an end to sexual violence, as campaigns against the repeated attacks in central Cairo pick up steam. «A woman’s voice is a revolution,» the protesters -- both men and women-shouted. Tuesday’s protest is the latest in a series of action demanding an end to the culture of impunity, following harrowing reports of mob attacks in and around Tahrir Square. The attacks are «a weapon in the ongoing political fight,» said Mayar Abdel Aziz, blaming «opponents of freedom» for being behind them.
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