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| Islamist gunmen kill 17 in Somalia beach restaurant attack | | | At least 17 people were killed when Islamist gunmen struck a popular beachside restaurant in the Somali capital of Mogadishu late on Thursday, Somali police said. Al Shabaab, a militant group aligned with al Qaeda, said its members set off two car bombs at the Beach View Cafe on Mogadishu's popular Lido beach, engaging in a gun battle for hours with government troops trying to flush them out. Police said al Shabaab fighters set off the first car bomb at dusk. |
| Myanmar releases political prisoners before power transfer | | | By Soe Zeya Tun and Hnin Yadana Zaw YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar began releasing the first of about 100 political prisoners on Friday, government officials said, days before democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi's party is to form a new government after an election victory in November. The freeing of prisoners by the outgoing administration of President Thein Sein comes after U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Myanmar to free all of its political prisoners during a visit on Monday. "So far, 18 political prisoners were released from Insein Prison. |
| Samarco, Brazil government move closer on $4.8 billion dam-disaster accord | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government and Samarco Mineração SA moved closer to a deal to settle a 20 billion-real ($4.8 billion) lawsuit for damages related to a deadly November dam disaster, Brazil's attorney general said on Thursday. The two sides met in Brasilia on Thursday and talks have "advanced significantly" with the likelihood that the outline of an accord can be completed by early February, Attorney General Luis Inacio Adams told reporters after the meeting. Brazil sued Samarco, a 50-50 joint venture between Brazil's Vale SA and Australia's BHP Billiton Ltd, for 20 billion reais ($4.8 billion) after an iron ore tailings dam burst.
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| Johnson & Johnson stops trials of drug similar to one linked to brain death in France | | | (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson has suspended international trials of a drug in the same class as an experimental drug made by Portuguese pharmaceutical company Bial, whose tests in France left one person brain dead and five others hospitalized. A spokesman for Johnson & Johnson said in an emailed statement that it voluntarily suspended two mid-stage trials and had not received reports of serious adverse events in its studies of patients with social anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder with anxious distress. Officials in France have said 90 people have taken part in the Bial trial, taking some dosage of the drug aimed at tackling mood and anxiety issues, as well as movement coordination disorders linked to neurological issues. |
| Insight - Wife of U.S. pastor imprisoned in Iran hopes to reunite, rebuild marriage | |  By Ben Klayman BOISE (Reuters) - Naghmeh Abedini is looking forward to reuniting next week with her husband, Saeed, the Iranian-American pastor freed on Saturday after more than three years in an Iranian prison. In an interview at her parent's home in Boise, Idaho on Wednesday, Abedini said that rebuilding their marriage after her husband's imprisonment will take time. Reuters could not independently confirm Abedini's allegations about her husband.
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| Militant attacks in Asia inject new urgency into U.S. bomb training | |  Nearby, a man on a motorbike detonates his suicide vest. The two-week course, taught by experts from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), is held at least once a year in Thailand. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, raising fears of more violence by the group's supporters across the region.
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