BBC News with Marion Marshall

The Prime Minister of Tunisia, Mohamed Ghannouchi, has named the ministers in the interim government intended to fill the

vacuum

left by the overthrow of President Ben Ali. Six ministers stay on in their posts, despite street protests in the capital against the

retention

of members of the former regime. Three opposition politicians are given cabinet seats. The new government was

swiftly

rejected by a spokesman for the Tunisian Labour party, Hammal Hammam, who told the BBC's Arabic service it was too similar to the old one.

"The government was

enlarge

d to include some opposition elements, those which are officially recognised and some independent personalities. This is

no more than

a facelift for the previous regime. The best response are the kind of demonstrations that took place today across Tunisia, the ones that said no to this government even before it was announced."

The Tunisian Interior Minister Ahmed Friaa, who retained his post, said 78 people had been killed there since the start of the unrest which has so far cost the country more than $2bn.

A prosecutor investigating the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has submitted a draft indictment against suspects in the killing.

It follows an investigation by the United Nations tribunal on Lebanon set up to try to identify who was responsible for Mr Hariri's death in 2005.