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Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Arrested At Rally

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 31 Desember 2014 | 14.59

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been detained by police after tweeting he was breaking his house arrest to join a protest.

The opposition activist - who ran for mayor of Moscow in 2013 - had been convicted of fraud alongside his brother Oleg earlier on Tuesday.

Although Alexei Navalny received a three-and-a-half-year suspended sentence, Oleg Navalny, a father-of-two who has no role in the opposition movement, was jailed for the same period.

Navalny said on Twitter that he planned to join protesters in Moscow and posted a picture of himself on what appeared to be a metro train.

"I may be under house arrest, but today I really want to be with you. That's why I am going too," he wrote.

The blogger's supporters called for a mass protest near the Kremlin, with at least 18,000 pledging on Facebook to attend.

Moscow officials warned that "all unsanctioned actions will be prevented by the security forces".

TV footage showed several thousand anti-Kremlin demonstrators gathered in the dark near Red Square and ringed by police or soldiers with riot shields.

Navalny was taken into custody as he approached the rally, but he tweeted urging others to stay and protest.

"I was detained, but they won't be able to detain everyone," he wrote.

He was then driven home and prevented from leaving his apartment again.

The protesters who gathered on the square chanted: "We are the power!" and "You won't be able to jail us all!"

About 100 other people were arrested but the rally was allowed to continue for two hours before it was broken up by security forces.

The verdict in the brothers' case was scheduled for next month, but was abruptly moved forward to the day before New Year's Eve, the main holiday in Russia, leading to speculation that authorities wanted to head off planned protests.

The trial - which saw the pair accused of stealing 30 million roubles, around $500,000 (£372,000) at the current exchange rate, from two firms - was viewed by many critics as part of a campaign to stifle dissent.

Alexei Navalny reacted angrily to the jailing of his brother, shouting out: "Aren't you ashamed of what you're doing? You want to punish me even harder?"

He briefly entered the metal cage that his brother was put into after the verdict and appeared to be holding back tears.

The European Union said the verdict appeared to be "politically motivated" but called for protesters to show restraint.

The US State Department said it was a "disturbing development designed to punish and deter political activism".

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Putin's Enemies: Justice Or Show Trials?

Anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny is the latest Russian opposition figure to feature in a series of criminal cases condemned as political "show trials" by critics of President Vladimir Putin.

The accusations have particular resonance in Russia because of the politically-motivated trials carried out over decades by Soviet leaders, which saw millions of politicians and ordinary people executed or sent to prison camps or psychiatric wards on trumped up charges.

The Kremlin denies allegations that it uses the courts to persecute opponents.

:: Alexei Navalny

The 38-year-old lawyer and activist rose to prominence by exposing political corruption in his blog before becoming a prominent speaker at anti-Putin rallies. He coined the phrase "party of crooks and thieves" to describe United Russia, Mr Putin's party.

He and his brother Oleg were charged with defrauding several companies, including the Russian subsidiary of the French cosmetics company Yves Rocher.

Alexei Navalny was previously given a five-year suspended sentence in another embezzlement case, which his supporters also say was politically motivated.

:: Sergei Udaltsov

The leader of the Left Front political grouping, the 37-year-old has described himself as a "Soviet patriot". He and his wife Anastasia have been nicknamed "Russia's Revolutionary Couple".

After playing a prominent role in anti-Putin protests, Mr Udaltsov was charged over a demonstration held the day before Mr Putin's inauguration for his third term as president in May 2012.

He was jailed for four and a half years for organising the protest, which had turned violent.

:: Leonid Razvozzhaev

A Left Front colleague of Sergei Udaltsov, he faced the same charges but fled Russia and tried to seek political asylum in neighbouring Ukraine.

He claimed that while his application was being considered, he was kidnapped, taken back to Russia, tortured and forced to sign confessions which he subsequently disowned.

Russian authorities insisted that he had given himself up voluntarily.

He was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison.

:: Mikhail Kosenko

The political activist was convicted of using violence against police officers during the same Bolotnaya Square protests that Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhaev were jailed for organising.

Despite testimony that he was a peaceful demonstrator, Mr Kosenko was sentenced to indefinite psychiatric detention. He was released in July 2014.

Amnesty International said: "Kosenko's only 'crime' was publicly expressing his beliefs. This is reminiscent of the Soviet-era tactics when the authorities used psychiatric treatment to silence dissenting voices."

:: Sergei Magnitsky

One of the most unusual criminal trials in that the defendant, lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, died years before his trial had even started.

Magnitsky was instructed by American businessman William Browder to investigate a multi-million tax fraud against the Russian state which Mr Browder's businesses had become unwittingly involved in.

But when Magnitsky speculated that police officials were involved in the fraud, he was arrested and charged with having carried it out himself. He died in custody in 2009 after allegedly being denied medical treatment and brutally beaten.

In July 2012 he was convicted - three years after his death - of tax evasion.

Mr Browder said: "Today's verdict will go down in history as one of the most shameful moments for Russia since the days of Joseph Stalin."

He successfully campaigned for the United States to implement sanctions against Russian individuals linked to the case.

:: Greenpeace

In September 2013, 30 Greenpeace activists, including six Britons, were arrested for taking part in a protest at an Arctic oil installation.

They were initially charged with piracy, which could have carried a prison term of up to 15 years. The charge was downgraded to hooliganism, which still could have carried a seven-year term, before they were released after two months in detention.

At the time Mr Putin said their treatment should serve as a lesson to others and suggested unnamed foreign rivals could have been behind their actions.

:: Pussy Riot

The all-female punk group were jailed for two years for hooliganism for performing an anti-Putin song in Moscow's main cathedral in March 2012.

They were freed in an amnesty initiated by Mr Putin in December 2013 shortly before the Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi.

:: Vladimir Yevtushenkov

One of Russia's richest men, the billionaire was placed under house arrest in September on suspicion of money-laundering over his purchase of a controlling stake in oil company Bashneft.

He was released from house arrest on 17 December and was praised in Mr Putin's annual press conference two days later.

However, Kremlin critics say the case is part of a bid by the Russian government to regain control of oil and gas assets sold off in the chaotic privatisations of the 1990s.

The arrest has led to comparisons with the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

:: Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Mr Khodorkovsky was one of the original "oligarchs" - the tycoons who took advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s to make their fortunes, before using their clout to effectively rule Russia during the weak presidency of illness-plagued Boris Yeltsin.

In 2003 Mr Khodorkovsky was arrested on charges of fraud. He was jailed for nine years and his oil company Yukos broken up by the state. He and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, were put on trial again in 2010, this time for embezzlement, and were jailed for another four years. Mr Khodorkovsky was suddenly released in December 2013.

Both trials were seen as politically-motivated and a signal from Mr Putin to the rich and powerful to think twice before supporting opposition parties.

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UN Push For Palestinian Statehood Blocked

A resolution demanding Israel ends its occupation of the Palestinian territories in three years has been rejected by the UN Security Council.

The draft, put forward by the Palestinians, was one vote short of being adopted.

However, if the resolution had won enough support, the US would have exercised its right to veto, preventing the plan from being taken further.

Of the 15 nations in the council, eight voted "yes" - including China, France and Russia.

The US and Australia voted "no", while the five remaining countries - Britain among them - abstained.

Israel's closest ally, the US, had objected to the timetable imposed by the resolution - and warned the draft did not take Israel's security concerns into account.

"We voted against it because… peace must come from hard compromises that occur at the negotiating table," US ambassador Samantha Power added.

The Palestinians now have two options - to submit another resolution after five new member states join the UN Security Council on 1 January, or try and join the International Criminal Court, where they could accuse Israel of war crimes.

There have been months of tension between Israel and the Palestinians, who are seeking to become an independent state.

A 50-day war between militants from both sides broke out in the summer, killing more than 2,200 people, most of them Gaza residents.

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Search Officials: 'Debris Is Missing Plane'

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 30 Desember 2014 | 15.00

Items resembling a plane door and an emergency slide found in the search for AirAsia Flight QZ8501 are probably from the missing plane, officials have said.

At least 10 large objects have been found in the Java Sea, around six miles from where the plane lost contact with air traffic control, the Indonesian air force said in a statement.

Djoko Murjatmodjo, Indonesia's director general of air transportation, said: "For the time being it can be confirmed that it's the AirAsia plane and the transport minister will depart soon to Pangkalan Bun."

Yusuf Latif, spokesman for Indonesia National Search and Rescue, said an Indonesian military aircraft saw white, red and black objects, including what appears to be a life jacket, off the coast, about 105 miles (170 km) south of Pangkalan Bun.

The agency has sent at least one helicopter to pick up at least 10 pieces of debris which will be taken to the search and rescue co-ordination post on Belitung Island.

"This is the most significant finding, but we cannot confirm anything until the investigation is completed," said Mr Latif.

On Tuesday, the search for the lost aircraft was expanded off the coast of Indonesia, with the US deploying a warship to assist the operation.

It has been more than 36 hours since the aircraft, with 162 passengers on board, communicated with air traffic control over the Java Sea - and officials fear the jet has crashed into shallow waters.

Hull-born businessman Chi Man Choi and his two-year-old daughter Zoe are among the missing.

Some 30 ships and 21 aircraft from South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and Indonesia are scouring 10,000 nautical miles in hope of tracking down the Airbus A320.

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Gallery: The Search For Missing AirAsia Plane

Indonesian air force CN295 crew members look from plane windows during a search and rescue operation for missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 over waters near Pangkalan, Central Kalimantan

This aerial view taken from an Indonesian search and rescue aircraft over the Java Sea shows floating debris spotted in the same area as other items being investigated by Indonesian authorities

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Hunt For Killer Shark As Teen Victim Named

Australian officials are hunting a shark that killed a teenager off Australia's southwest coast in the nation's second deadly attack in as many weeks.

Jay Muscat, 17, was spearfishing with a friend on Monday off Cheynes Beach, on the south coast of Western Australia (WA), when he was attacked.

The shark is believed to be a great white measuring between 4m and 5m (13ft and 16 ft) long, said Carlo Vittiglia, spokesman for the state fisheries department.

There is a chance the animal was injured, Vittiglia said, as Mr Muscat's friend is thought to have fired a spear at the shark during the attack.

His friend Matt Pullella wrote on Facebook that "the shark hit me first then attacked Jay", The West Australian reported.

"The shark turned and came for me, I pushed the speargun down its throat and fired the gun!" he wrote.

"This is something no one should ever have to see."

Friends and relatives left tributes to the victim, including on social media.

Rae Batten wrote on Facebook: "So very sad and so hard to believe. Highly respected young man by so many. Thoughts and prayers for the Muscat family."

WA's Department of Fisheries said Cheynes Beach would remained closed while equipment was deployed from boats to try and catch the shark.

If the shark is caught, it will be destroyed.

"One of them (boats) will be setting (drum) lines, the other will be doing patrols in the nearby regions," Department of Fisheries spokesman Rick Fletcher told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

The attack comes two weeks after an 18-year-old man was killed by a shark while spearfishing on the Great Barrier Reef off Australia's east coast.

Sharks are common off Australia's beaches, but fatal attacks are rare.

The country has averaged fewer than two deadly attacks per year in recent decades, but experts say attacks are becoming more common as water sports increase in popularity.

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Al Shabaab Leader Targeted In US Airstrike

The US military has targeted a senior leader of the al Shabaab Islamist militant group in Somalia.

"The strike took place in the vicinity of Saakow, Somalia," Defense Department spokesman Mark Wright said in a statement.

"At this time, we do not assess there to be any civilian or bystander casualties. We are assessing the results of the operation and will provide additional information, when appropriate, as details become available."

The airstrike came after a man identified as a senior intelligence official in the group, which is seeking to overthrow the Somali government, surrendered.

Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi - the subject of a $3m bounty as part of the US State Department "Rewards for Justice" programme - reportedly handed himself over to government and AU troops on Saturday.

He was said to have been hiding out in the Gedo region, which borders Kenya and Ethiopia.

But al Shabaab claimed he had left the group more than a year ago.

"All the information on military set up or plans he knew has been changed since he left, and therefore the so-called defector has no intelligence value to offer to our enemies,"a senior militant was quoted as telling AFP.

Hersi was said to have been close to al Shabaab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, who was killed in a US airstrike

Al Shabaab - meaning The Youth - grew out of the Islamic Courts Union which controlled Mogadishu and much of Somalia in 2006 before being forced out by Ethiopian forces.

It has since been fighting a bitter war with government troops and the African Union forces. It has also been blamed for attacks in Kenya and Uganda.

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What Happened To Flight QZ8501? Five Theories

Written By Unknown on Senin, 29 Desember 2014 | 15.00

As rescuers prepare to resume the hunt for QZ8501 with first light, aviation experts look at what might have happened to the AirAsia flight.

:: Mechanical Failure:

The A320 has an excellent safety record with only 26 crashes since they were first brought into work in 1988.

According to pilot and aviation expert Gideon Ewers all of those problems were caused by other issues rather than problems with the plane.

The most famous was a bird strike on the US Airlines plane that was forced to ditch in the Hudson River in 2009.

:: Hit By Storms:

The pilot had requested to increase flying height before the plane disappeared from radar to avoid bad weather.

According to aviation expert Captain Mike Vivian storms can tower thousands of feet high and the thunder clouds can cause serious damage to aircraft.

However, the weather conditions are not uncommon in the area and pilots are expert at navigating them.

Mr Vivian said it was unlikely that a sudden weather event caused the plane to go missing.

:: Stalled By Ice:

The plane could have flown into icy conditions which may have caused it to stall and "drop out of the sky", according to pilot Ray Karam Singh, who is familiar with the route over the Java Sea.

He said the pilot of the QZ8501 could have been attempting to fly out of icy conditions by going higher but could have encountered further issues with the ice.

Mr Singh told Sky News he thought ice was the most likely cause, rather than thunderstorms.

:: Deliberate Act:

The pilots of the AirAsia plane maintained communication with air traffic control until the very last minute, according to David Learmount, the operations and safety editor of Flight Global.

The pilot's mantra is to aviate, navigate and then communicate.

Therefore, something distracted them and meant they were unable to speak to air traffic control.

Mr Learmount said: "Something distracted their attention so they were no longer able to keep talking. We don't know what happened at the moment, and it doesn't appear to be a deliberate act."

It is usual in terrorist targets that the group responsible is keen to claim a "victory".

:: Pilot Error:

The Indonesian pilot had 20,000 hours of flying experience, according to the boss of the airline, Tony Fernandes.

Seven thousand of those hours had been with AirAsia.

He would be used to flying the short-haul route and was highly experienced, according to aviation experts.

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Objects Spotted In Sea In Missing Plane Search

An Australian plane has spotted objects in the sea during the hunt for the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501, officials have said.

Indonesian officials said the search team had made the discovery while searching for the jet which stopped communicating with air traffic control over the Java Sea in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Earlier, the chief of Indonesia's search effort said that the missing AirAsia passenger plane "is likely at the bottom of the sea".

Bambang Soelistyo added that an initial investigation into the disappearance had revealed that the "estimated crash position is in the sea".

More than a dozen ships have been sent to the area to try to find the aircraft.

More follows...

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N Korea's Human Rights 'Worst In The World'

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 23 Desember 2014 | 15.00

By Mark Stone, China Correspondent

The United Nations Security Council has held its first ever meeting to discuss "unspeakable atrocities" and "grave human rights violations" allegedly being carried out in North Korea.

The 15-member council, which includes the UK, the US, China and Russia, discussed whether North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un should be referred to the International Criminal Court for "crimes against humanity" after objections from China were overcome.

Australian Ambassador to the UN Gary Quinlan described the move as "an historic step".

"The DPRK (North Korea) is in effect a totalitarian state which uses violence and repression against its own citizens to maintain itself and its threatening military apparatus in power."

US Ambassador Samantha Power said: "The human rights violations in North Korea are among the worst in the world. They are widespread. They are systematic."

She added: "Given the threat they pose to peace and security, they have been going on outside the scrutiny of the UN Security Council for far too long."

But North Korea rejected the council's decision and said it would decide how to respond.

The meeting was called following an unprecedented UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) report, published in February, catalogued a list of crimes which it said were "widespread and systematic" and "unparalleled in the modern world".

The COI, chaired by retired Australian judge Michael Kirby, sat through witnesses' testimony from scores of North Korean defectors who described their lives inside the country.

The report lists murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortion, sexual violence, forcible transfers and forced disappearances.

Mr Kirby said there were "many parallels" between the evidence he heard and crimes committed by the Nazis in World War Two. He said the international community could not claim, as it did with the Nazis, that they were unaware of the crimes.

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Gallery: Sky News On China's North Korea Border

Sky News has filmed rare pictures across the Chinese border into North Korea. The images demonstrate the poverty inside the country and the degree to which China cooperates with its old ally

At the border town of Ji'an only a narrow river separates China with North Korea

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North Korea Hacked? State's Internet Cut

North Korea's limited internet service collapsed for more than nine hours just days after the US vowed to retaliate for a cyber-attack on Sony, which has been blamed on the reclusive state.

A US-based analyst said all internet went down after a period of instability over the weekend before links were eventually restored.

"For the past 24 hours North Korea's connectivity to the outside world has been progressively getting degraded to the point now that they are totally offline," said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Dyn Research.

"There's either a benign explanation - their routers are perhaps having a software glitch; that's possible. It also seems possible that somebody can be directing some sort of an attack against them and they're having trouble staying online."

Sony pulled The Interview - a comedy about the assassination of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un - after hackers threatened showings of the movie.

The group, calling itself Guardians of Peace, had already leaked five unreleased films, the script of the next James Bond movie, embarrassing email exchanges between executives and private individuals' data after attacking Sony's systems.

Pyongyang has repeatedly denied any role in the attack but said it could have been carried out by the country's supporters.

But the FBI blamed North Korea for the devastating attack on the media giant and President Barack Obama said the US would respond "in a place and time and manner that we choose".

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said she could not confirm North Korea had been the target of a cyber-attack.

"We aren't going to discuss ... publicly, operational details about the possible response options or comment on those kind of reports in anyway except to say that as we implement our responses, some will be seen, some may not be seen," she said.

However, Ms Harf did respond to Pyongyang's calls for a joint investigation into the attack, saying: "If they want to help here they could admit their culpability and compensate Sony for the damages that they caused."

The internet is only available to trusted government officials in North Korea and its main web presence is through its Uriminzokkiri website, which has Twitter and Flickr feeds best known for sharing propaganda videos attacking the US and South Korea.

Mr Madory said the internet connection had historically been stable, but had come under attack in the past.

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Gallery: Sky News On China's North Korea Border

Sky News has filmed rare pictures across the Chinese border into North Korea. The images demonstrate the poverty inside the country and the degree to which China cooperates with its old ally

At the border town of Ji'an only a narrow river separates China with North Korea

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Man Stabs Himself After Ploughing Into Market

A man driving a van has ploughed into a crowd at a Christmas market in Nantes, western France, injuring 10 people.

The driver drove at a chalet serving hot wine in front of which several people were gathered, a witness said.

"I just saw the car charging into the stand, completely ramming into people," an elderly woman said.

A source close to the investigation said he then stabbed himself "at least nine times," causing himself serious injuries.

The Christmas market was evacuated and secured by police.

The crash followed a similar incident in the French city of Dijon yesterday. In that incident at least 13 people were injured, two of them seriously, after a driver targeted passers-by in five different areas of the city.

Witnesses told police the driver was heard shouting he was "acting for the children of Palestine" during the rampage, which lasted about half an hour.

However, a prosecutor said the 40-year-old driver had been to psychiatric hospital 157 times and had no known links to jihadist groups.

That attack came a day after another man, who was also heard shouting "Allahu Akbar," stabbed three police officers in the central town of Joue-les-Tours.

Bertrand Nzohabonayo, the man arrested over the stabbings, has a brother on a domestic terrorism watchlist but is not on it himself.

Two days before attacking the police station, Bertrand had copied his brother in posting an Islamic State flag on his Facebook page.

President Francois Hollande has aske dthe prime minister to call an emergency meeting to discuss the three attacks.

However, the source said they had "no account pointing to any religious demands" in connection with the latest crash at the market.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the attacker appeared to be "unbalanced" and not motivated by politics or religion.

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Stigma Of Sierra Leone's 'Ebola Orphans' Remains

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 20 Desember 2014 | 15.00

By David Bowden, Senior News Correspondent

Sierra Leone is now at the forefront of the fight against Ebola in West Africa, with more reported cases - over 8,000 - than any other country, a rising number of deaths and many children left orphaned.

But the impact of the disease goes far beyond the victims themselves.

There are thousands of so-called "Ebola orphans", young children who have lost one or both parents to the disease and many have seen their close family wiped out by the virus too.

In Sierra Leone there are estimated to be more than 4,500 children in this situation and caring for them is a growing problem.

Before the Ebola outbreak the St George Foundation - founded by Unicef just outside Freetown after the civil war in Sierra Leone a decade ago - cared for street urchins and child prostitutes, but not anymore.

Now the youngsters here, aged from just one and a half to 17 years old, are without their loved ones because of Ebola.

For founder Justina Conteh and her staff it is heartbreaking to have to explain to ones so young that they are alone in the world. All deal with it differently.

She said: "For the boys, give them one week and they are ok, but for the girls you really see them in the corners in a sulky way sitting down thinking, holding their heads.

"For the girls it really takes time for them to get over the psychological problems."

There are 35 children being looked after at St George's, but as the others tuck into their lunch, two remain apart behind a sagging nylon rope marking the boundary of the quarantined area.

This is where Haja and Fatima live for now. Haja, who is 17, has lost 10 members of her family to Ebola including her mother, seven of her sisters and two brothers. Her father died five years ago.

Haja, too, was infected but survived.

She explained what happened in hospital: "So two to three days and I didn't die. After I don't die they transferred me to Hastings (an Ebola treatment centre). I stay there for about two weeks and they discharge me."

She has been at the orphanage ever since, acting as an unpaid nanny to other orphans who are suspected of having Ebola.

Her survival has given her hope for immunity from the virus a second time.

At the moment she only has one charge, nine-year-old Fatima, whose mother died from the disease, but who so far is showing no signs of being infected herself.

An 11-month-old baby boy who had been in quarantine has just died from Ebola, though Kadija, 10, recently left Haja's care after she tested negative for the virus.

The ordeal for these youngsters is not over yet, finding them new homes is proving very difficult because of the stigma of Ebola.

No one, not even extended family, seems to want anything to do with a child who has been so close to the killer virus.

:: You can watch an extended special report on the Ebola crisis at 4.30pm today.

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Israel Launches Gaza Airstrike On Hamas Site

Israel has said it has carried out an airstrike in the Gaza Strip on what it called a "Hamas terror infrastructure site".

It was in response to a rocket fired from Gaza into southern Israel on Friday, the military said.

Residents reported hearing two explosions early this morning in the southern Khan Yunis region, an area that contains training sites for Palestinian militants.

No injuries have been immediately reported.

Israeli army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner said the military "will not permit any attempt to undermine the security and jeopardise the well being of the civilians of Israel".

"The Hamas terrorist organisation is responsible and accountable for today's attack against Israel," he added.

It was the first strike on the Palestinian territory since this summer's conflict.

Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that rules Gaza, fought a 50-day war between July and August.

Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza fired thousands of rockets and mortars into Israel, which responded with airstrikes and a ground invasion.

During the course of Operation Protective Edge, nearly 2,200 Palestinians died.

UN figures suggest at least 1,523 of those killed were civilians.

Six Israeli civilians and 66 Israeli soldiers also died.

On Friday, fierce clashes erupted in the West Bank between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces at a military checkpoint and near the village of Turmus Aya. No injuries were reported.

The village was the site of a Palestinian-Israeli scuffle earlier this month during which Palestinian Cabinet minister Ziad Abu Ein collapsed. He later died en route to hospital.

In other developments, the Israeli military has begun relaxing travel restrictions for Palestinian Christians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for the Christmas holiday season, saying it granted 700 permits for Gazans to travel to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan.

Israel said it was also allowing West Bank Christians to travel to Israel, permitting 500 of them to visit their families in Gaza, subject to security checks.

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Sony: 'We Had No Choice' But To Cancel Film

Sony has defended its decision to cancel a film mocking the North Korean regime after the studio suffered a damaging cyber-attack.

In a statement, the company said it had "no choice" but to pull The Interview, because cinema chains across the US had backed away from showing the film, which depicts a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.

The decision was made after the group claiming responsibility for the cyber-attack made terrorist threats against US cinemas if they showed the movie, which stars Seth Rogen and James Franco.

President Barack Obama strongly criticised the move, saying he believed the studio had "made a mistake".

Celebrities and film-makers have also slammed the decision, which was made earlier this week.

Mr Obama said: "I wish they had spoken to me first.

"We cannot have a society in which some dictatorship someplace can start imposing censorship."

"Without theaters, we could not release it in the theaters on Christmas Day," Sony said in response.

"We had no choice."

It insists it has only cancelled the Christmas Day release and it has been "actively surveying alternatives" to release the film on another platform.

"It is still our hope that anyone who wants to see this movie will get the opportunity to do so," Sony said.

Sony's chief executive, Michael Lynton, has also defended the company's actions, telling CNN: "We experienced the worst cyber-attack in American history.

"We have not caved, we have not given in, we have persevered and we have not backed down.

"We have always had every desire to have the American public see this movie."

Mr Lynton said the President, the media and the public "are mistaken as to what actually happened" and added he had personally talked to senior advisers at the White House, who were "certainly aware of the situation".

The FBI revealed on Friday it believed North Korea was behind the cyber-attack on Sony, something Pyongyang has denied.

However, a North Korean diplomat did say the film "defamed the image of our country".

The FBI called the attack, which led to a series of embarrassing leaks, an unacceptable act of state-sponsored "intimidation".

The agency said technical analysis of malware used in the attack found links to malware that "North Korean actors" had developed and found a "significant overlap" with "other malicious cyber activity" previously tied to Pyongyang.

The group claiming responsibility for the attack, who call themselves Guardians of Peace, praised the decision to cancel the film's release in a statement provided to CNN on Friday.

:: Watch a special report about people who have fled from North Korea on Sky News, Tuesday at 7.30pm.

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Gallery: 'The Interview' Film Pulled: Hollywood Takes to Twitter

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Eight Children Stabbed To Death In Cairns

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 19 Desember 2014 | 15.00

Eight children have been found stabbed to death at a house in Cairns, Australia.

The children are reportedly aged between 18 months and 15 years old.

Police were called to a property in the suburb of Manoora following reports of a woman with serious injuries.

During the search of the house the bodies of the children were discovered.

The 34-year-old woman is reportedly the mother of seven of the children. The eighth child is thought to be a family member.

The mother is said to be in a stable condition at a hospital where she is being questioned by police.

Queensland Police Detective Inspector Bruno Asnicar said: "As it stands at the moment, there's no need for the public to be concerned about this other than the fact that it's a tragic, tragic event.

"The situation is well controlled."

Lisa Thaiday, who said she was the woman's cousin, said another sibling, a 20-year-old man, came home and found his brothers and sisters dead inside the house.

She said: "We're a big family... I just can't believe it."

Cairns Post reporter Scott Forbes, at the scene, told Sky News: "I've spoken to some of the family members and they say the woman, who is the biological mother, actually has more children but the other kids weren't at home at the time. So of the children she does have, eight of them are now dead.

"Many of the people here are actually connected to the family or relatives of the family. They are very shocked. They said they were a happy family and were enthusiastic about Christmas.

"They've said she was a very proud mother who was very protective of her children, so everyone lining the streets here is reeling right now."

The street is in lock down and a crime scene will remain in place for at least another day, police said.

Cairns MP Michael Trout told Sky News the close-knit community was in shock over the "dreadful tragedy".

"How can anyone harm innocent children is on everyone's lips at this moment," he said.

Media outlets reported that the neighbourhood was predominantly inhabited by indigenous Aboriginal Australians, and was known by residents to have a high crime rate.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott called the events in Cairns "heartbreaking" and acknowledged that these were "trying days" for Australia.

The deaths come as Australia is still feeling the shock of the deadly siege in a Sydney cafe earlier this week.

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Russia's Crumbling Economy Faces Fresh Sanctions

Russia's crumbling economy could be hit further after the EU agreed on more santions over its intervention in Ukraine.

Fresh punitive measures - banning investment in Crimea to target Russian Black Sea oil and gas exploration - were agreed at the end of the European Council summit in Brussels.

New EU president Donald Tusk said they needed to create a long-term strategy to stop Russia President Vladimir Putin's defiance of the West.

"We need to be realistic, we have to treat this as a long-term game. We must go beyond being reactive and defensive."

He called on Europeans to "regain our self-confidence and realise our own strength" when dealing with Russia.

David Cameron warned Mr Putin that Russia's economy was in "serious" trouble after being hit by a slump in oil prices and sanctions from the EU and US.

"I think that something very important is being made clear here, which is that if you want to have full access to the international capital markets you cannot behave in a way that flies in the face of the international rules and how to behave towards other countries.

"If it takes Russian troops out of Ukraine, and it obeys all the strictures of the Minsk agreement, these sanctions can go.

"But until that happens these sanctions should not go and there was a very clear and unanimous and unified view in the EU tonight."

Speaking at his annual end-of-year media conference, Mr Putin hit back saying the sanctions have not had a big effect and accused the West of behaving like "an empire".

He also accused the West of trying to "chain" the Russian bear.

"Probably our bear should just relax and sit quietly and just eat honey instead of hunting animals. Maybe then they will leave the bear in peace.

"But they will not. What they are trying to do is chain the bear and when they manage to chain the bear they will just take out its fangs and claws."

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Falling Oil Prices Could Spell Serious Trouble

By Dominic Waghorn, US Correspondent

Paul Kenworthy has been an oilman for more than two decades. He's the owner of 10 wells near Midland West Texas and has seen good times and bad come and go, several times over.

But the precipitous drop in oil prices on what they called Black Friday last month has been painful all the same. Like everyone else he's seen the value of the black gold his pumps pull out of the Texas dirt go down by 40%.

He blames OPEC and the Saudis who have refused to cut production despite falling demand in Asia and Europe. But he says he understands what they're doing.

"To use a line from The Godfather, 'It's business it's not personal'," he told Sky News. "They're trying to maintain market share and they're going to do what it takes to maintain that market share."

OPEC, he says, is responding to a massive increase in US oil production because of the revolution in fracking.

Hydraulic fracking has brought boom times to places like Midland not witnessed since the 80s. The average income in the town is the fastest growing in the country, and currently stands at $82,000 a year.

It's not just the oil industry that's been booming.

Mark Pearce is a homebuilder and says it's been impossible to keep up with demand from people flooding in to take advantage of the oil money.

'It's been really all you can get and nobody has been able to keep up. Early it was how much can you sell now it's just how much can you build to meet demand."

But fracking is expensive and not profitable if the price of oil goes below a certain level.

From cities like Dallas and Houston they are watching nervously asking the multibillion dollar question: how low will the price go and for how long?

The answer is important for people far beyond America. Its economy is the only one that's showing signs of a sustainable recovery currently. Much of that recovery has been driven by the oil boom.

Lower oil prices can help that further. They give people more money in their pocket - between $500 to $1,000 a year, according to current estimates. That should drive consumption and lower fuel prices make production cheaper too.

But if the price stays too low, the oil industry could be in serious trouble. That would threaten the wider economic recovery here and because what happens in America spreads to Europe, including the UK.

Bruce Bullock, director of the Maguire Energy Institute in Dallas, says it's a Goldilocks question. The oil price can't be allowed to get too high or two low.

"If it were to rebound up to $65 or $70 a barrel, I think on balance it will help the economic recovery. If it were to drop further I think it will harm the recovery. There's a lot at stake here for America and for the rest of the world."

Something worth bearing in mind before getting too excited by plunging prices at the pump.

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Terrorists 'Plotting To Bomb School Buses'

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Pakistani police have issued a warning that terrorists are planning to plant magnetic bombs on school buses.

Authorities in Islamabad issued a letter calling on schools to increase security and to check underneath buses and other vehicles.

It comes after seven Taliban gunmen burst into an army-run school in Peshawar and massacred more than 130 children and nine teachers on Tuesday.

The country's army chief General Raheel Sharif and the head of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) have flown to Afghanistan to meet Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to discuss tackling Taliban militants in both countries.

Army spokesman Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa said: "We are hoping that we will see strong action from the Afghan side in the coming days."

Relations between the two countries have been tense, with both sides blaming the other for covertly supporting anti-government insurgents.

And as the country began three days of mourning in the wake of the school attack, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reinstated the death penalty in terrorism cases.

Government spokesman Mohiuddin Wan said: "It was decided that this moratorium should be lifted. The prime minister approved.

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Gallery: Bloody Aftermath Of School Attack

A Taliban massacre that killed 141 teachers and children at an army-run school in Pakistan has left a scene of heart-wrenching devastation

Blood is seen still splattered on the floor and the stairs as local media are allowed inside the school a day after the attack

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Prisoner Exchange Sparks US-Cuba Policy Shift

By Sky News US Team

The United States and Cuba have moved to end decades of hostilities following an exchange of prisoners, including US government contractor Alan Gross.

Barack Obama outlined a "policy of engagement" on Wednesday that included re-establishing diplomatic relations, easing a decades-old trade embargo and relaxing travel restrictions.

The President said ending the "outdated approach" to Cuba was necessary to normalise relations with the communist-ruled island.

"These 50 years have shown that isolation has not worked," Mr Obama said. "It's time for a new approach."

The announcement came after Mr Gross, who was held in a Cuban prison for five years, arrived at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington.

Cuba also released an unidentified "intelligence agent" as part of a prisoner exchange that included three Cubans imprisoned in Florida for spying.

Mr Obama said Pope Francis played a key role in helping both sides reach the agreement.

Cuban President Raul Castro, addressing Cuban citizens on state television, said he welcomed the restoration of relations with the United States, but stressed profound differences remained.

He said both countries would have to learn to live with their differences "in a civilised manner".

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the "very positive" announcement and thanked the leaders from both countries "for taking this very important step".

Cuba and the US have been ideological foes since soon after the 1959 revolution that brought Mr Castro's older brother, Fidel Castro, to power.

Formal diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed in 1961.

In recent years, Mr Gross' imprisonment served as a major sticking point to improving ties.

Mr Obama's decision to move ahead with the prisoner swap was met with criticism from some members of Congress.

US Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat, said the President's "actions have vindicated the brutal behaviour of the Cuban government".

"Trading Mr Gross for three convicted criminals sets an extremely dangerous precedent," he said in a news release.

Senator Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American Republican from Florida, told Fox News the exchange "puts a price on Americans abroad".

He promised to block any nominee to an ambassador post in Cuba.

Mr Obama said Secretary of State John Kerry would immediately begin re-establishing diplomatic relations, including the opening of a US embassy in Havana.

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Gallery: A History Of US-Cuba Relations In Pictures

1 January 1959: Fidel Castro's rebels - under the command of Che Guevara (R) - sweep into Havana. Dictator Fulgencio Batista, who had strong relations with the American mafia and large US corporations, flees Cuba. The US soon recognises the new government

June-October 1960: Castro announces the nationalisation of nearly all US businesses - and American-owned oil refineries, after they refuse to process Soviet oil

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Sierra Leone Braced For More Ebola Cases

By David Bowden, Senior Correspondent, In Freetown

Sierra Leone, caught in the grip of the Ebola crisis, is bracing itself for a sharp increase in cases of the killer disease over the Christmas period.

The Government is so worried about the situation it has outlawed any seasonal public celebrations and soldiers are being put on the streets to make sure no one disobeys the directive.

The outbreak of the virus, which began a year ago in neighbouring Guinea and quickly spread to Liberia, is now dominating the lives of everyone in Sierra Leone.

The western part of the country, including the capital Freetown where around a third of the population of more than six million lives, is bearing the brunt of the current upturn in cases.

Authorities have instigated what they call the "Western Surge" to redouble efforts to try to keep the virus at bay.

Eunice Peacock, of the District Ebola Response Centre (DERC), admits they are "running to catch up" with the rate of the spread of the disease and would not be drawn on when it would be brought under control.

One of the biggest problems is a refusal by what some claim is up to 80% of the population, a figure disputed by the government, to even acknowledge Ebola is real.

One of the scores of operators at the UK-funded 117 Ebola telephone reporting line said many of the calls she takes are pranks or abusive.

"They will use abusive language on you, they'll say Ebola is lie, lie, you're just taking money, most of them that is what they say," she said.

"They don't believe. Most of the people they don't believe in the Ebola stuff."

The genuine calls get pushed on to the DERC where they are followed up either as live cases or burials.

One of the burial units is run by the Red Cross and again funded by the UK.

It aims to get everybody reported to it collected and buried in the central Ebola cemetery within 24 hours.

Even those who have not died from the virus are collected and treated as if they had the disease, which means getting accurate figures for the number of Ebola deaths is difficult.

We went out with Burial Team 7 into the Wellington area of Freetown - up steep, winding tracks where even four-wheel-drive vehicles struggled to pass.

There, we went to the home of Alie Kamara, a 63-year-old father of 16, who had died on the morning we arrived. He had been ill for some time.

His family said they had a certificate saying he was free of Ebola - but the body retrieval team still put on their protective suits to salvage Alie's remains before disinfecting the house.

His body was put into two sealed bags after a short Muslim blessing before being lifted on to the back of a truck to be taken to the graveyard.

The team moved on to the next body. Here, Marie - the daughter of 70-year old Allieu Koroma - was hysterically throwing herself to the ground.

Again there was no suggestion of Ebola, though there were raised eyebrows when the dead man's wife suggested he too had a medical certificate proving he was free of Ebola, but that "rats had eaten it".

As with Alie, Allieu's body was swabbed, double bagged and put on to the back of the truck.

The bodies of two confirmed Ebola victims were then picked up from a hospital before the team travelled on to a graveyard.

The World War II cemetery has been disused for years, but is now Freetown's central Ebola burial site.

There is row after row of freshly filled graves, side by side with row after row of empty ones awaiting a body.

No sooner had Burial Team 7 placed Alie and Allieu into their respective final resting places, another group from a different aid organisation turned up to do the same for their Ebola dead.

Moments later, the graves were covered by a team of grubby, well-muscled diggers who are never short of work at the moment.

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Pakistan Taliban's History Of Bloody Attacks

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Described as a "national tragedy" by prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistani Taliban's massacre at a Peshawar school is the group's latest brutal attack.

The organisation said the killings at the military-run school were "revenge" for a widespread military operation in the North Waziristan tribal area earlier this year.

The group, called Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was formed in 2007, in the aftermath of the siege of the Red Mosque in Islamabad.

The group's first leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a US missile attack in August 2009.

TTP is an umbrella for militant groups, united in fighting the Pakistani military.

It aims to impose a strict interpretation of the Koran throughout the country.

Here are just some of the attacks they have been linked to in recent years:

:: Benazir Bhutto Assassination 2007

Pakistan's government accused TTP of involvement in the assassination of the former prime minister in December 2007, although the group denies it.

:: Marriott Hotel Bombing 2008

A Taliban-linked group claimed responsibility for the September 2008 truck bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, which killed 53 people.

:: Times Square Plot 2010

Baitullah Mehsud was succeeded by Hakimullah Mehsud, who pledged to use suicide bombers in the US. He was behind the failed truck bomb attack in New York's Times Square in May 2010.

The US Department of State formally declared the group a terrorist organisation in September 2010, with the UK and Canada following suit in 2011.

:: Malala Yousafzai Shooting 2012

In October 2012 the Taliban shot the schoolgirl in the head outside her school in Swat Valley for daring to speak about girls' rights.

She survived, and went on the win the Nobel Peace Prize.

:: Karachi Airport Attack 2014

After peace talks with the Pakistan government in June 2014 failed, the Taliban attacked Karachi Airport, killing 26 people.

A week later the Pakistan military began a major military offensive, Operation Zarb e Azb in the Waziristan region, which has seen hundreds of militants killed.

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Exclusive: Death Pact Of IS-Fighting Britons

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By Lisa Holland, Foreign Affairs Correspondent

Two Britons who went to Syria to fight IS have told of their battles on the front line - and how they vowed to kill each other rather than get captured.

Jamie Read and James Hughes told how they dodged bullets during chaotic patrols with Kurdish forces after recording a "goodbye" video for their families in case they died.

They described spending hours lying in the "pitch black" in no-man's land, in conditions they said were reminiscent of World War One.

On one occasion, it was so cold that a young Kurdish comrade collapsed with hypothermia - "body-popping" on the ground next to them.

In an exclusive Sky News interview after their return to the UK, the pair also revealed how panic alarms have been installed in their homes, amid fears they could be targets for IS supporters.

They strongly denied being mercenaries, telling how they had sold possessions to fund their flights and had returned to the UK to "mounting debts and bills".

They had not been paid "a penny" for their exploits, though they had been "treated like royalty" by some of the Kurdish troops, the men said.

And the former soldiers gave a detailed account of their time in Iraq and Syria, explaining that they had travelled to fight IS militants because they had "zero tolerance for terrorism".

Describing what had prompted them to travel, Mr Read said the beheading of British aid convoy volunteer Alan Henning had been the final straw.

"Alan Henning - aid worker, British - put him on his hands and knees and cut his head off, you know what I mean," Mr Read said.

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Gallery: British Pair Joined Fight Against Islamic State

James Hughes and Jamie Read gave an exclusive interview to Sky News

James Hughes from Worcestershire is a former soldier who served three tours in Afghanistan

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Jamie Read from Lanarkshire, Scotland, spent time training with the French army

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He said that he had 'zero tolerance' for terrorism

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The men joined Kurdish fighters in Syria battling IS

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"Can you really find justification in sitting back here and doing nothing?"

Mr Read, 24, and Mr Hughes, 26, revealed that organising the trip had been quite simple with a "phone call here or there" and some communication over Skype.

They were screened by simply having their Facebook posts checked and ensuring that social media friends were not IS supporters, Mr Read said.

The pair said that after arriving in Irbil, northern Iraq, they were transported via the Kurdish HQ to the front line in Syria.

During the journey the Britons said they had no idea whether they had landed in a trap.

"I'm not going to lie, this was one of the most frightening processes you can go through, you know, the paranoia: through the roof," Mr Read said.

"You get picked up by a guy who doesn't speak English, so straight away there's a language barrier.

"When we got to the safe house... it's sort of dodgy-looking, so you think 'I don't really like this'. At one point, you think 'is this the point I'm going to get handed over?'"

After getting a uniform and weapons, Mr Hughes said they eventually "rocked up" on the frontline to an old schoolhouse covered in mud.

They arrived to cheers from their Kurdish comrades, were plied with chai (tea) and cigarettes, and met three other Westerners who had joined the fight.

During their three weeks on the front line, their duties included terrifying night patrols where it was the "blackest black... like being in a cave with no lights".

"You are left staring into the pitch black, hoping no one sees you first," Mr Read said.

The Britons said they had hatched a plan to shoot each dead rather than being caught and paraded on television as hostages.

"We wouldn't get captured, bottom line, we couldn't get captured, we're not getting our heads paraded on YouTube, we made that vow before we went out.

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Gallery: Peshmergas On The Front Line In The Battle Against Islamic State

Kurdish Peshmerga forces sweep the Bakirta village near the town of Makhmur, south of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan

Members of Kurdish "peshmerga" troops ride a vehicle during an intensive security deployment on the outskirts of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad

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"Everybody out there is carrying a round for themselves. Nobody wants to be captured by IS. Nobody wants to end up on YouTube getting their head cut off.

"So for us, as harsh as it sounds, it's probably the better way to go. It's the old saying, 'you keep a round for each other'."

Describing their final day, Mr Read told how the pair had been out on patrol towards a nearby village where IS militants had been holed up.

"All of a sudden we just got opened up on. Quite a lot of small arms (...) quite a lot of AKs and they were quite close.

"There were rounds coming in and they were really close - they were pinging and they were bouncing, whizzing over your head - obviously it's a very distinctive noise.

"There was a lot of shouting, a lot of screaming, a lot of F-words being dropped."

The pair said they were forced to flee through a village which was "littered with IEDs (improvised explosive devices)" before returning to base.

"We eventually made it out but this was a real eye-opener - this is how these people were going to act - there's something more that needs to be done there."

They returned to Britain last week and were questioned by anti-terrorism officers for six hours at Heathrow airport before being released.

Asked whether they would return to Syria, Mr Read said: "I'd like to think we would have the opportunity to go back."

But he added: "I'm unsure on the political stance - I'm not sure whether our Government would appreciate us going back."

:: You can watch an extended special report on the IS-fighting Britons at 2.30pm, 4.30pm and 8.30pm, today.

Watch the report on Sky channel 501, Virgin Media channel 602, Freeview channel 132 and Freesat channel 202.

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