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| IMF's Lagarde seeks second term in shadow of court case | |  By Michel Rose and Andrew Callus PARIS (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 - and a court case against her looming 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. The prime ministers of Britain and France backed her publicly on Thursday.
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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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| Myanmar releases political prisoners before power transfer | |  By Soe Zeya Tun and Timothy Mclaughlin YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar began releasing the first of about 100 prisoners on Friday, many of them political detainees, days before a parliament dominated by democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi's party sits for the first time after an election win in November. The freeing of some political prisoners by the outgoing administration of President Thein Sein comes after U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Myanmar to free all political prisoners during a visit on Monday. The amnesty gives a last-minute boost to the legacy of Thein Sein, whose semi-civilian government in 2011 replaced a junta that had run Myanmar for 49 years, ushering in a series of political and economic reforms.
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| China jails rights activist on spying charges as crackdown widens | |  By Megha Rajagopalan and Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court has jailed a well-known rights activist for 19 years on state security charges, including supplying intelligence abroad, as the leadership widens a crackdown on rights lawyers that has triggered international condemnation. Zhang Haitao, a rights activist based in the troubled western region of Xinjiang who wrote online postings critical of the ruling Communist Party, was jailed for inciting subversion of state power and illegally supplying intelligence abroad, said his lawyer, Li Dunyong, by phone. A second rights activist, Li Xin, has been missing for 10 days after leaving Thailand for Laos with the hope of returning to Thailand to apply for political asylum, said his wife, Shi Sanmei.
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| 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 organised 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". |
| Pakistan Taliban commander vows more school attacks in video | |  A senior Pakistani Taliban commander released video footage on Friday of four fighters he said carried out Wednesday's deadly assault on a university in Pakistan's northwest that killed 20 people and vowed more attacks on schools in future. The footage raised fresh questions of a possible split in the fractured Taliban leadership, whose official spokesman has denied the group was behind the assault. Militants scaled the walls of Bacha Khan University in Charsadda on Wednesday morning and killed 20 people before being gunned down by army commandos and police.
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