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| Fearful Mozambicans flee as old foes clash | | | By Joe Brock KAPISE, Malawi (Reuters) - When Mozambican troops hunting opposition fighters attacked his village this week, 10-year-old Wit Messenger turned and ran, leaving behind parents he may never see again. Messenger is among thousands of Mozambicans who have fled across the border to refugee camps in Malawi in the last month, saying Frelimo government forces are burning homes and killing civilians in a campaign against Renamo guerrillas in an escalation of a simmering conflict between old civil war foes. The first Mozambicans arrived in the Malawian village of Kapise in June last year but the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) says the flow of migrants has rapidly increased this month and predicts the number could rise from 3,500 now to 5,000 in coming days, more than it can currently handle. |
| In Spain, left-wing coalition comes closer as king ends talks | |  By Julien Toyer and Blanca RodrÃguez MADRID (Reuters) - Prospects of a left-wing coalition government in Spain came closer on Friday as the Socialists and anti-austerity Podemos agreed to seek a deal to break a two-month political deadlock caused by an inconclusive parliamentary election. Such a combination remains uncertain but, after the leaders of both parties met King Felipe, it appeared far more likely than a centre-right/centre-left coalition proposed by acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who won the Dec. 20 ballot. "Spain can't afford to wait for Rajoy," Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias told a news conference after the meeting.
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| Ivory Coast army chief urged Burkina coup leader to act | |  By Mathieu Bonkoungou OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's army chief encouraged a coup leader in neighbouring Burkina Faso during his failed bid to seize power last year, according to a recording of a conversation in the hands of Burkina Faso judicial authorities. The recording's emergence comes after Burkina Faso issued an arrest warrant for Ivory Coast's parliament speaker Guillaume Soro for alleged links to the coup, further straining relations between the two West African neighbours. Burkina Faso authorities issued the warrant against Soro for crimes including complicity in treason last week on the basis of another recorded phone conversation.
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| UEFA rules out presidential election until Platini appeal decided | |  (Reuters) - UEFA will not schedule a presidential election to replace banned Michel Platini until the Frenchman's appeal has been decided, the European soccer body said in a statement on Friday. Platini, who had been strong favourite to succeed Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, was banned for eight years from all football activities by the world body's ethics committee last month. "The UEFA Executive Committee decided there will be no UEFA presidential election scheduled until the sports justice appeal bodies, including potentially the Court of Arbitration for Sport, have taken a decision regarding Michel Platini's suspension," UEFA said.
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| Five children hurt in school attack in southeast Turkey blamed on PKK | | | Five children were hurt on Friday when an explosive ripped through a schoolyard in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, a region gripped by violence between militants and state security forces for months, security sources said. The sources blamed the attack on the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), saying members tossed a homemade explosive into the yard of the middle school in the Baglar district of Diyarbakir, the region's biggest city. Turkish authorities have been battling PKK militants in cities and towns in the mainly Kurdish southeast since July, after a 2-1/2-year ceasefire collapsed. |
| U.S. Vice President Biden chides Turkey over freedom of expression | |  U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said during a trip to Turkey on Friday that intimidating the media, curtailing internet freedom and accusing academics of treason was not setting a good example in the Middle East. Speaking on a two-day visit to the NATO ally and key member of the U.S.-led alliance against Islamic State in neighbouring Syria and Iraq, Biden said the strength of Turkish democracy had a direct impact on the strength of ties with the United States. "The more Turkey succeeds, the stronger the message sent to the entire Middle East and parts of the world who are only beginning to grapple with the notion of freedom," Biden said, flanked by members of Turkish civil society groups.
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| IMF's Lagarde seeks second term in shadow of court case | |  By Michel Rose and Andrew Callus PARIS/DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Christine Lagarde launched her campaign for a second term as managing director of the International Monetary Fund on Friday with ringing endorsements from a host of major economies that looked past a court case against her in her native France. The former French finance minister who trained as a lawyer has no obvious challengers and has long been open to serving another five-year term. Britain and France backed her publicly on Thursday.
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| Mexico speeding efforts to ensure 'Chapo' extradited - president | |  The Mexican government is speeding up efforts to extradite notorious drug boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States after his recapture earlier this month, President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Friday. Guzman was caught in early January after six months on the run following a spectacular prison break through a tunnel in his cell floor, embarrassing Pena Nieto and his government. "The order the Attorney General's office has is to speed up its work to ensure this highly dangerous criminal is extradited as soon as possible," Pena Nieto told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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| Afghanistan arrests Haqqani network members blamed for TV station attack | |  Afghan forces have arrested eight members of the feared Haqqani militant network who they say carried out a suicide attack this week on journalists working for the country's most-watched television channel. The Haqqani network, which mainly operates out of Pakistan's border areas, is blamed for some of the deadliest and most sophisticated attacks on U.S. and Afghan troops in Afghanistan. The National Directorate for Security (NDS), Afghanistan's intelligence agency, said in a statement those arrested were behind the attack that killed seven journalists in Kabul.
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| Belgium charges man with involvement in Paris attacks | | | Belgian prosecutors said on Friday they had charged one of two people detained earlier this week with terrorist offences in connection with the militant attacks in Paris which killed 130 people. The person charged was identified as Zakaria J, born in 1986. |
| Belgian court orders release of Paris attacks suspect | | | A Belgian court released from custody on Friday one of 10 people charged with involvement in the Paris attacks because of insufficient evidence against him, his lawyer said. Ayoub Bazarouj, 22, was detained after a search of his house on Dec. 30, being charged the next day with terrorist murder and participation in a terrorist organisation. Many of those being held in Belgium are charged with having aided Salah Abdeslam, a former Brussels resident who was in Paris on the night of the Nov. 13 attacks, in which 130 people were killed. |
| Germany arrests Syrian suspected of militant group membership | | | German police have arrested a Syrian national in the southern city of Stuttgart suspected of taking part in the kidnapping by Islamic rebels of a United Nations peacekeeper near Damascus three years ago, prosecutors said on Friday. The prosecutor's office did not say whether the man was a Syrian asylum seeker or under what status he lived in Germany. |
| North Korea detains U.S. student on New Year trip for "hostile act" | | | By James Pearson and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has detained a U.S. university student, the third western citizen known to be held in the isolated state, for committing a "hostile act" and wanting to "destroy the country's unity", it said on Friday. Otto Frederick Warmbier, 21, of the University of Virginia, was in North Korea for a five-day New Year trip and was detained at Pyongyang airport on Jan. 2 ahead of a flight back to China, said Gareth Johnson of Young Pioneer Tours, which organized the visit. According to the North's official KCNA news agency, Warmbier entered North Korea as a tourist and "was caught committing a hostile act against the state", which it said was "tolerated and manipulated by the U.S. government". |
| Carter: U.S-led coalition needs to take back Mosul and Raqqa | |  The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State needs to take back the cities Mosul and Raqqa and will use "boots on the ground" as part of its strategy in doing so, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Friday. "We need to destroy them in those two places, and I'd like to get on with that as soon as possible," Carter, speaking from Davos, Switzerland, said in an interview on CNBC.
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| U.S. wants U.N. to raise refugee aid by a third to $13 billion | |  By David Brunnstrom DAVOS (Reuters) - The United States wants the United Nations to raise funding for refugees this year by 30 percent to $13 billion and says it will ask for the extra cash at a summit to be hosted by President Barack Obama in September. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the goal of the meeting, to be held on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, would also be to at least double the number of refugees who are resettled or let in to other countries. "This summit will be the culmination of a sustained, rigorous effort to rally the world community," Kerry said in a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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| Ukraine acts to purge court system of bribery, corruption | | | By Pavel Polityuk KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's constitutional court approved moves on Friday to stamp out political meddling in the judicial system and halt bribe-taking among judges, part of an anti-corruption drive to help secure aid and goodwill from vital international backers. The European Union and the International Monetary Fund, which has propped up Ukraine's economy with a $40 billion bailout programme as it fights pro-Russian separatists in the east, have repeatedly urged Kiev to tackle endemic corruption and bribe-taking. According to a December survey by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation think-tank, 80 percent of Ukrainians distrust the courts and believe judges are susceptible to bribes and political pressure. |
| Luke Skywalker's "Star Wars" prop gun set for auction | |  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A rare "Star Wars" prop piece, Luke Skywalker's DL-44 blaster used in the 1980 film "The Empire Strikes Back", is up for sale at auction with a minimum bid of $200,000. Auction house Nate D. Sanders said the prop gun, made of gray, brown and silver fiberglass, is still in its original filming condition, retaining "its original flash suppressor and scope, though it does not (and never did) fire". Actor Mark Hamill, who played Skywalker, gave the prop as a gift to a young fan in an episode of the BBC television show "Jim'll Fix It", the auction house added. ...
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| French PM says state of emergency to be prolonged - BBC | |  French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Friday that a state of emergency declared after 130 people were killed in attacks in Paris in November would be prolonged as long as necessary, the BBC quoted him as saying. Officials had said it was likely to be extended but Valls went a step further. Asked how long he envisaged the state of emergency remaining, Valls said: "The time necessary ... As long as the threat is there, we must use all the means." Valls, speaking in Davos, Switzerland, added it should remain in place "until we can get rid of Daesh", using an acronym for the militant group Islamic State.
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| Tajik lawmakers approve changes allowing president unlimited terms | |  Tajikistan's parliament approved constitutional changes on Friday that give veteran president Imomali Rakhmon the right to run for any number of terms, citing his status as "Leader of the Nation", a title bestowed by lawmakers last month. Constitutional changes and a referendum have already allowed Rakhmon to successfully run for president four times, most recently in 2013, when he was re-elected for a seven-year term. The Central Asian parliament, dominated by Rakhmon's supporters, has sent the amendments to the Constitutional Court to be reviewed, the final stage before a popular vote.
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| Wave of kidnappings, violence hampering Congo aid delivery - U.N. | | | A spike in kidnappings and general insecurity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile North Kivu province in recent months has made delivering life-saving humanitarian aid a "Herculean task", the United Nations said on Friday. Congo's east has been plagued by instability since regional wars between 1996 and 2003 killed millions, most from hunger and disease. The latest in a string of foreign-backed insurrections, the M23, was defeated by Congolese and U.N. forces in late 2013 but smaller armed groups and criminal gangs have since proliferated. |
| Ex-presidential guards mount raid on Burkina Faso armoury | | | Members of Burkina Faso's disbanded presidential guard, a pillar of former president Blaise Compaore's deposed regime, raided an armoury on the outskirts of the capital overnight, the army said on Friday. Coming less than a week after al Qaeda fighters killed 30 people in a restaurant and hotel in Ouagadougou popular with foreigners, the assault further exposes the security challenges facing new President Roch Marc Christian Kabore. There were no casualties during the raid, which took place at around 3 a.m. on Friday and targeted the Yimdi armoury, the army said in a statement. |
| N.Korea leaders should face trial for crimes against humanity - U.N. | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea's leaders should face trial for crimes against humanity as there has been no improvement in human rights since a U.N. report detailed Nazi-style atrocities there two years ago, a United Nations investigator said on Friday. The 2014 U.N. report concluded that North Korean security chiefs and possibly leader Kim Jong Un should face international justice for ordering systematic torture, starvation and killings. "In addition to continuing political pressure to exhort the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) to improve human rights, it is also now imperative to pursue criminal responsibility of the DPRK leadership," said Marzuki Darusman, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, in a statement on Friday.
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| Islamist gunmen kill 17 in Somalia beach restaurant attack | |  At least 17 people were killed in the Somali capital of Mogadishu when five Islamist gunmen set off bombs and stormed a popular beach-front restaurant late on Thursday, Somali police said. Al Shabaab, a militant group aligned with al Qaeda, said its fighters set off two car bombs at the Beach View Cafe on Mogadishu's popular Lido beach, and engaged in a gun battle for hours with government troops trying to flush them out. Somalia's security minister, Abdirizak Omar Mohamed, said four of the gunmen were killed and one was captured alive.
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| Sarkozy draws presidential election spotlight with book | |  Nicolas Sarkozy, who is expected to seek a return to the French presidency next year, acknowledged in a book published on Friday that he had made errors and irritated some voters during his 2007-2012 term as president. Sarkozy, who lost his re-election bid to Socialist Francois Hollande, has not publicly stated that he will be a candidate in 2017, but the carefully choreographed book release is widely seen as the opening salvo of a campaign. In "La France pour la vie" (France for life), the leader of conservative party, The Republicans, says he was unwise to have celebrated his 2007 election win on a French tycoon's yacht and later in his term to have told a hostile bystander at a farm fair, "Get lost you jerk".
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