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| At least 19 dead in suicide attack in north Cameroon | | | Two suicide bombers killed at least 19 people and injured 50 others in a market in Meme, northern Cameroon, on Friday, military sources told Reuters. Two men walked into the market and blew themselves up, one of the officials based in northern Cameroon said, adding that the number of dead and injured is subject to change. There has so far been no official claim of responsibility for the attack, but officials pointed the finger at Nigeria-based Boko Haram, which has been blamed for a campaign of suicide attacks in neighbouring countries Cameroon, Chad and Niger over the past year. |
| Pakistan lodges case against alleged perpetrators of Pathankot air base attack | |  A Pakistan police spokesman said on Friday a case has been lodged against unnamed perpetrators of a deadly attack on an Indian air base last month that has renewed tensions between the rivals. The Jan. 2 attack on the Pathankot air base, in which seven Indian security personnel were killed, has stalled hopes of revived peace talks between the nations after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to his counterpart Nawaz Sharif in December. India said it gave actionable intelligence to Pakistan in the weeks following the attack, but Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar suggested on Thursday Pakistan was slow to act.
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| U.S. and Russia hold talks on Syria ceasefire ahead of U.N. meeting | |  U.S. and Russian military officials have held talks in Geneva ahead of a wider meeting on Friday aimed at trying to secure a cessation of hostilities in Syria, diplomats said. The unannounced bilateral meeting was aimed at narrowing positions before the two powers jointly chair a United Nations meeting on the issue, they said, declining to give details. "The idea of the whole exercise is for Russia and the United States to have a joint view.
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| Paris fugitive stayed in Brussels three weeks, newspaper says | |  A leading suspect sought in connection with the Paris attacks hid in a Brussels apartment for some three weeks, the Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure (DH) wrote on Friday, citing sources close to the investigation. Salah Abdeslam, whose brother blew himself up in Paris and who returned to Belgium the day after the attacks, is suspected of helping to equip the gunmen and suicide bombers who killed 130 people in Paris on Nov. 13 and may have taken part himself. Surveillance footage at a petrol station showed him returning by car to Belgium a day later.
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| Supreme Court refuses to intervene in JNU student leader's arrest | |  By Aditya Kalra and Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Friday refused to consider a bail plea from a left-wing student leader whose arrest for sedition triggered demonstrations in universities across the country against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling nationalist group. Rivals said the government was trying to crush dissent after it ordered police to detain Kanhaiya Kumar, the head of the Jawaharlal Nehru University students union, for commemorating the anniversary of the execution of a Kashmiri separatist. The top court suggested Kumar, 28, approach the lower Delhi High Court for bail, saying it didn't have to intervene in the case and that lower courts were qualified to handle a bail application.
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| FIFA faces day of reckoning as threats mount | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - The spotlight at next week's FIFA Congress will fall on the presidential election - but the real key to the future of soccer's beleaguered governing body is embedded in a document with the unglamorous title "Draft statutes - Congress 2016". U.S. prosecutors have continued to call FIFA a victim of corrupt individuals. National team competitions depend on a calendar agreed between FIFA and the clubs, which commit to release players to their national teams on certain dates.
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| Factbox: Main reforms to be voted on by FIFA Congress | |  World soccer's governing body, FIFA, is expected to pass wide-ranging reforms at a Congress in Zurich next Friday, when a new president will also be elected. The organisation has been making global headlines since last May, when authorities arrested FIFA officials and others in Zurich on corruption charges. Since then, its president, Sepp Blatter, has been banned from the sport for eight years for ethics violations, along with European soccer chief Michel Platini.
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| Fighting at U.N. compound in South Sudan kills 18 - MSF | | | By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - Fighting at a United Nations compound sheltering people fleeing conflict in South Sudan has killed 18 people, including two Medicins Sans Frontieres workers, the international medical aid group said. South Sudan descended into civil war in December 2013 when a row between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar ended with fighting that often occurred along ethnic fault lines. The U.N. peacekeeping mission, UNMISS, had said on Thursday fighting the night before between youths sheltering in the U.N. compound in Malakal had killed five and wounded 30 after violence erupted between two ethnic groups. |
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