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| North Korea detains U.S. student on New Year trip for "hostile act" |
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| 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 |
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 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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| IMF boss Lagarde says will run for second mandate |
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 The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday she will run for a second term. Christine Lagarde has no obvious challengers and has said previously she was open to serving another term. Lagarde has been accused of negligence over a payout of some 400 million euros ($430 million) to businessman Bernard Tapie while she was France's finance minister.
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| Myanmar releases political prisoners before power transfer |
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 By Soe Zeya Tun and Hnin Yadana Zaw YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar began releasing the first of about 100 prisoners on Friday, government officials said, days before a parliament dominated by democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi's party sits for the first time 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 political prisoners during a visit on Monday. The amnesty boosts 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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| Islamist gunmen kill 17 in Somalia beach restaurant attack |
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 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.
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