Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 28 Februari 2015 | 14.59
A classmate of Mohammed Emwazi - the Londoner unmasked as "Jihadi John" - has told Sky News that "nothing in his high school could have left him radicalised".
The fellow pupil of the Quintin Kynaston academy, who was two years older than Emwazi and does not wish to be named, believes the IS militant's education beyond high school may be responsible for his transformation into a cold-blooded killer.
"It wasn't like university where you'd have speakers coming over from certain societies to give talks," he said. "I suppose there was potential for him to be groomed, that is a possibility. But at the time, at secondary school, he was like any of us."
Emwazi went on to study at the University of Westminster between 2006 and 2009 - finishing his computer programming degree in the same year he was reportedly questioned by an MI5 officer in Amsterdam, accused of attempting to travel to Somalia to join a terror group.
According to the classmate, there was nothing to suggest Emwazi was religious during his teenage years. He was quiet, rarely made eye contact, and always wore a baseball cap - but was known to get into the occasional fight.
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Gallery: Jihadi John's University Academic Record
Mohammed Emwazi, aka Jihadi John, studied a computing course at university. Sky News has exclusively obtained his student record
His file shows mostly middling academic grades for his course modules. He graduated with a lower second (2.2) degree
One of Mexico's most wanted fugitives - Knights Templar drug cartel leader Servando Gomez - has been captured, police have said.
The 49-year-old gang boss and former primary school teacher was detained by federal officers as he left a house in Morelia, Michoacan, following months of intelligence work, officials said.
Gomez was taken to Mexico City and frogmarched in front of TV cameras, as two masked federal police officers held him down by the neck and led him into a helicopter.
The kingpin had eluded authorities last year despite a massive manhunt in the mountains of Michoacan with help from a "rural defence" force comprised of former vigilantes, who had taken up arms against the Knights Templar.
With his arrest, the authorities have now taken down all the top leaders of the cult-like cartel, dealing a huge blow to a group that once dominated the agricultural and mining state through murder, kidnappings and extortion.
Gomez is bundled into a helicopter
Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said: "Today we have achieved the most important objective in the fight against organised crime: The detention of the most wanted criminal in all of Mexico."
The capture is a much-needed victory for President Enrique Pena Nieto amid public anger over his handling of violence in the neighbouring state of Guerrero, where 43 students were allegedly killed by a gang in league with local police.
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President Nieto said the arrest "strengthens the rule of law and we continue marching toward a peaceful Mexico".
But Alejandro Hope, a former Mexican intelligence official, said Gomez's capture was symbolic and would "not majorly change the criminal scene".
He said Michoacan is struggling with the emergence of new armed groups and infighting among vigilantes.
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Gomez became the Knights Templar's de facto boss after the group's founder, Nazario Moreno, was killed by marines in March 2014. Moreno had been wrongly declared dead by officials in 2010.
Unlike the more shadowy gangsters of Mexico's underworld, Gomez was a publicity seeker who appeared in online videos and television interviews.
He nurtured a Robin Hood image in his mountain hometown of Arteaga, where Gomez threw parties and gave out cash.
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Some of his videos ensnared local politicians caught casually chatting with him around a table, including a former interim governor who was later arrested.
Authorities had a $2m reward for his capture, seeking him for alleged kidnappings, extortion, murder and drug trafficking.
At the height of its power, the cartel imported drug precursors from Asia to manufacture crystal meth before exporting the potent drug to the US.
Boris Nemtsov, the former Russian deputy prime minister and fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, has died after being shot four times by a passing car in Moscow, officials have confirmed.
The 55-year-old was targeted by an unidentified attacker near the Kremlin during the early hours of Saturday morning - and was shot in the back.
According to colleagues, he was working on a report which apparently included concrete evidence that Russia was directly involved in the separatist movement which erupted in Ukraine last year.
At the time of the attack, Mr Nemtsov was walking along a bridge with a Ukrainian woman, who was uninjured in the shooting. She is now being questioned by police.
The politician had received death threats on social media, but no steps were taken by the police to offer him protection, according to his lawyer, Vadim Prokhorov.
A senior opposition politician, Mr Nemtsov was an outspoken detractor of Vladimir Putin's administration - and had planned to attend an "anti-crisis march" through the capital on Sunday.
Mr Nemtsov served as deputy prime minister in Boris Yeltsin's government
The economist had said in an interview with Russian media: "Every time I called (my mother), she laments: 'When are you going to stop scolding Putin? He will kill you!'"
Mr Putin has condemned the death, which he said looked like a "contract killing" - adding that he will personally oversee the investigation into the shooting.
Meanwhile, the White House has demanded that the investigation is "prompt, impartial and transparent".
President Obama, who met Mr Nemtsov in 2009, described him as a "tireless advocate" for the rights of Russian citizens, and cited his work in fighting corruption.
In a statement, Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was "shocked and saddened" by the news.
"We deplore this criminal act. Those responsible must be brought to justice," it added.
Garry Kasparov, chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, tweeted: "Devastated to hear of the brutal murder of my long-time opposition colleague Boris Nemtsov. Shot four times, once for each child he leaves."
Widely regarded as the greatest chess player of all time, the political activist added: "Politkovskaya was gunned down. MH17 was shot out of the sky. Now Boris is dead. As always, Kremlin will blame opposition, or CIA, whatever."
According to the Financial Times, Mr Nemtsov had wanted to tackle the stagnant wages and soaring inflation that has blighted Russia's economy in recent times - with the rouble collapsing and Western nations imposing sanctions over the government's involvement in the Ukraine crisis.
"They believe that the embargo on imported foods is America's fault, and they were surprised when I told them no, that was not Obama, it was Putin. This is what we need to make people aware of: the crisis, that's Putin," Mr Nemtsov said.
Written By Unknown on Jumat, 27 Februari 2015 | 14.59
He has been Islamic State's poster boy of horror.
Once dubbed 'Jihadi John', Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born Briton from northwest London, has been named by friends and associates allegedly as the death cult's best known murderer.
Sadly, and dangerously, such notoriety serves the purpose of the movement he has joined - demonstrating a sense of invincibility as a purging 'saint' for the cause.
Emwazi, if he is ever formally identified as the infamous killer, appears to closely fit and serves the psychological profile which has driven much of Islamic State's appeal.
Experts speak of three important characteristics which drive the appeal of IS.
Video:Who Is 'Jihadi John'?
There is the notion of "cognitive closure". Islamic State's uncompromising theologically driven world perspective in a world of "unsettling, anxiety inducing uncertainties" offers men and women, especially those in the West who are from immigrant backgrounds and may feel alienated, an end to the "cravings for coherence and closure", according to Professor Arie Kruglanski, from the University of Maryland.
Writing on the E-International Relations website Prof Kruglanski, a leading authority on the minds of terrorists, observed that fundamentalism offers people a "world of good versus evil, saints versus sinners, order versus chaos; a pure universe in black and white admitting no shades of grey. A fundamentalist ideology… offers a future that is predictable and controllable.
"Such a perspective holds particular fascination for confused youths in transitional stages of their lives, who drift like rudderless ships and find themselves torn by conflicting cultural demands."
Emwazi, a computer science graduate from Westminster University, appears to have been restless.
He is reported to have been arrested in Tanzania on suspicion of links to al Shabab in Somalia nine years ago. He complained of being interviewed and "threatened" by MI5.
He sought work in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia but grew up in the gang-blighted parts of Queen's Park in northwest London.
Video:'He Was Such A Beautiful Man'
Jihadi ideology removes uncertainty and provides a sense of superiority - so much so that those who do not share its tenets are deemed worthy only of obliteration.
Another appeal of IS is that it offers followers a chance at being significant.
Emzawi, or Jihadi John, is seen as a hero by himself, his comrades and internet groupies attracted to his brand of bullying machismo.
The message from him is "you too can be a world player, bring war and bloodshed in return for worldly recognition, and end to the 'humiliation' and rewards in heaven following 'martyrdom'.
This "denotes the supreme importance to humans of being noticed, mattering, and deserving honour and esteem", Prof Kruglanski writes.
In recent months, the base instincts of young men and women are also forming part of the IS appeal.
Video:Sept 2014 - Unmasking Jihadi John
Sex is selling their agenda. Young fighters are promised a bride, sex slaves or captured women, while their groupies are lured to Syria by internet images of handsome armed men and the promise of an Islamic life in the arms of a hero.
IS has seen recruitment leap from 10,000 to more than 40,000, with 12,000 foreign fighters of whom at least 3,000 hail from Europe.
Emwazi is a magnet for IS recruits.
His appeal will only end, says Prof Kruglanski, with "ignominy, an unglamorous death in the desert with no one to care".
Protesters have clashed with riot police in Greece in the first display of anti-government sentiment since the leftist Syriza party took power a month ago.
Around 450 people took to the streets of Athens on Friday to demonstrate against the newly elected left-right coalition government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, which agreed a deal with EU partners last week to extend an EU aid programme to Athens.
The deal has triggered dissent within Mr Tsipras' own party and accusations by some on the hard left that the government is going back on pre-election promises.
After the march, around 50 activists in hooded tops hurled petrol bombs and stones at police in the city's Exarchia district.
A small number of shop windows and bus stops were also smashed or damaged during the violence.
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The leftist government was elected on 25 January on a promise to write off a chunk of the country's debt and end tough austerity measures which are blamed for pushing one in four Greeks out of work.
Meanwhile, Greece's four-month bailout extension is expected to get wide support in the German Parliament after a large majority of lawmakers in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc signalled their backing on Thursday.
Parliament will vote today on the deal hammered out by eurozone finance ministers.
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Volker Kauder, caucus leader of Mrs Merkel's bloc, said an "overwhelming majority" of his lawmakers will back the agreement.
In a test vote among the 311 conservative lawmakers, 22 opposed the bailout extension and five abstained. A minority of conservative lawmakers has consistently voted against bailouts over the five years of Europe's debt crisis.
The family of Steven Sotloff, the US journalist beheaded in an Islamic State video, have said they have "full faith" that his alleged killer "Jihadi John" will be brought to justice - a day after he was identified as a Londoner called Mohammed Emwazi.
Speaking to Sky News, the family's spokesman Barak Barfi said: "They hope that he will be caught by American intelligence officials, brought to trial in the United States, and convicted for the crime of beheading their son.
"There's going to be no closure until these people are brought to justice. This is just one step in a long path. The Taliban were toppled in Afghanistan, al Qaeda was eradicated in Afghanistan, and we believe that one day, Islamic State's end will come.
"When that comes, people like Jihadi John will have nowhere to run."
Since the 27-year-old was unmasked as the frontman of IS, reaction from the families of the Western hostages killed in cold blood has been mixed.
Video:Who Is 'Jihadi John'?
The mother of James Foley, the first US journalist murdered by the militant group, has said she forgives "Jihadi John" - and described Emwazi's apparent involvement with the terror organisation as "an ongoing tragedy".
Diane Foley told The Times: "It saddens me, his continued hatred. He felt wronged, now we hate him - now that just prolongs the hatred. We need to end it."
Loved ones of David Haines, the British aid worker believed to have died at the hands of Emwazi, are also divided on what would bring closure to victims' families.
Video:Sotloff Family Spokesman
Whereas his wife, Dragana, told the BBC that Emwazi's death was "the last thing I would want for someone like him", Mr Haines' daughter, Bethany, told ITV News that she would only feel closure "once there's a bullet between his eyes".
Scrutiny is mounting over claims that Emwazi, a graduate from the University of Westminster, was already known to MI5 before he joined the ranks of IS in 2013.
But Mr Barfi, speaking to Sky News on behalf of the Sotloffs, rejected claims that British intelligence services had "dropped the ball".
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He added: "The British have long been vigilant and have stopped a number of plans. This is not a replay of the Kouachi brothers, who were responsible for the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
"This is a completely different situation, and British intelligence has done as much as it could have, given the constraints of the democratic environment it works in."
Sir Menzies Campbell has said the Intelligence and Security Committee will likely seek answers about what information had been held on Emwazi - but this process will not take place until after the General Election.
Video:'He Was Such A Beautiful Man'
According to Asim Qureshi, a director of the CAGE campaign group, Emwazi had been continually harassed by security agencies before he joined IS - and described the now-infamous militant as "extremely kind and gentle" and "the most beautiful young man".
Both Scotland Yard and Downing Street have refused to confirm reports of Emwazi's identity.
Written By Unknown on Kamis, 26 Februari 2015 | 14.59
The first human head transplant could take place in just two years, according to a radical proposal by an Italian surgeon.
Sergio Canavero, from the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, wants the surgery to be used to help extend the lives of people who have suffered degeneration of the muscles and nerves or those who have advanced cancer.
The surgeon plans to announce the project at the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons (AANOS) conference in Annapolis, Maryland, in June, the New Scientist reported.
Mr Canavero published a paper on the technique he would use in the Surgical Neurology International journal this month.
The recipient's head and the donor body would be cooled at the start of the procedure to extend the time that cells can survive without oxygen.
Tissue around the neck would be dissected and major blood vessels would be joined using tiny tubes.
The spinal cords would then be cut and the recipient's head moved on to the donor body. The ends of the spinal cord would be fused together using a chemical called polyethylene glycol, which encourages fat within cell membranes to mesh.
After this, the person would be put into a coma for around four weeks to prevent them moving while they heal.
Mr Canavero said he would expect the patient to be able to move and feel their face when they awoke, they would speak with the same voice and they should be able to walk within a year.
He first proposed the idea of the surgery in 2013.
He told the New Scientist: "If society doesn't want it, I won't do it. But if people don't want it, in the US or Europe, that doesn't mean it won't be done somewhere else.
"I'm trying to go about this the right way, but before going to the moon, you want to make sure people will follow you."
The first successful head transplant - involving moving the head of one monkey on to another - was carried out in 1970 at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, US.
The monkey lived for nine days, but its immune system rejected the head.
Letters between Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda commanders about terror plots in the West have been revealed for the first time.
The correspondence between the group's leader and his senior operatives were presented during the New York trial of a Pakistani student accused of planning multiple attacks in Britain.
Prosecutors claim Abid Naseer plotted attacks on targets in Manchester, as well as in New York and Copenhagen.
Sky's Hannah Thomas-Peter in New York said the evidence revealed on Wednesday was part of a "treasure trove" of al Qaeda material seized during the US special forces raid on Bin Laden's Abbottabad compound in May 2011.
Abid Naseer denies plotting terrorist attacks in New York and Manchester
Letters between the terror leader and his external operations chiefs provided updates on plots against the West and its allies.
One letter provided details on a plan to send attackers to the UK and Russia, which prosecutors said refers directly to Naseer.
More broadly, the letters revealed new insight into the way senior al Qaeda leaders were thinking and communicating with the organisation's chief before he was killed in the raid on his Pakistani hideout.
One message in particular reflected the vitriol the terror group reserved specifically for the US.
The evidence was seized during the SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout
It said: "Here we are praise be to God, watching the faltering of the United States and its allies.
"By God we shall not stop by His will except at the doors of the White House and to raise the banner of monotheism on their so called Statue of Liberty."
Another letter said "striking America in its heartland has the most significance".
The correspondence provided updates on the importance of maintaining better communications, using better code and discussed the types of personalities best suited to plan and carry out attacks.
The Arndale Centre was to be targeted around Easter under the alleged plan
They also revealed a discussion about the need to develop new ways of carrying out attacks, including the use of household items that were less likely to draw attention.
The striking evidence was revealed as the prosecution finished submitting its case against Naseer, who they allege plotted to blow up the Arndale shopping centre in Manchester.
The 28-year-old, who was extradited to the US in 2013, has denied being part of a global al Qaeda conspiracy.
Naseer was initially arrested after 2009 terror raids in Manchester, but released without charge.
He is representing himself in court.
"I chose to represent myself on personal grounds," Naseer said on Wednesday.
"I wanted people to hear my voice and my story."
He said he was interested in non-political religion, and that "terrorism is not compatible with Islam".
Lawyers for a British grandmother on death row in Texas claim prosecutors coerced or blackmailed witnesses into giving false evidence at her trial.
Linda Carty was convicted of the murder of her neighbour Joana Rodriguez and the abduction of her four-day-old son in 2001 and sentenced to death.
British-based human rights organisation Reprieve has unearthed new evidence which alleges that key witness Christopher Robinson, who claimed to have seen Carty kill Ms Rodriguez, has now admitted that he lied.
Mr Robinson, in a September 2014 affidavit, said the Texan district attorneys "threatened and intimidated" him into identifying her as the murderer, Reprieve said, and "[told] me I would get the death penalty myself if Linda Carty did not get the death penalty".
Other witnesses have also admitted they were "blackmailed" by prosecutors and lied or omitted evidence as a result.
Lawyers for the 56-year-old, who is originally from the British Virgin Islands but had lived in Houston for nearly 20 years prior to her conviction, argue that prosecutors arranged for a deal with a co-defendant which was never disclosed to her defence team and that four jurors now say they would either have acquitted her or not given her a death sentence.
Charles Mathis, a former Drugs Enforcement Agency (DEA) officer who was Carty's "handler" while she worked as an informer, has said the district attorneys threatened to reveal an invented affair if he did not testify against her.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is now considering the evidence.
Celia Ouellette, a lawyer at Reprieve, said: "This is a wonderful day for Linda - and for justice.
"That a prosecutor can threaten witnesses to lie under oath and testify against a woman, who ends up being convicted of murder and sentenced to death as a direct result, is truly devastating.
"We look forward to giving Linda a day in court that is not rigged against her from the start."
Written By Unknown on Rabu, 25 Februari 2015 | 14.59
European foreign ministers have called for those involved in the fighting to the east of Ukraine to abide by the ceasefire.
The ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany issued a joint statement at the end of the talks in Paris, calling for parties to "start with a total ceasefire and complete withdrawal of heavy weapons".
The ministers were meeting to consider the situation in the town of Debaltseve where fighting has continued despite the ceasefire coming into effect on 15 February.
Ukraine's foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin
There have also been attacks on the port city of Mariupol.
"Unfortunately there was no political agreement on how to condemn what happened in Debaltseve," said Ukrainian foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin after the talks.
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People stand on top of burnt Ukrainian army tanks destroyed during fighting with the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic army in the town of Debaltseve
Kiev accused pro-Russian rebels of opening fire with rockets and artillery at villages in southeastern Ukraine on Monday, all but burying a week-old European-brokered ceasefire deal
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Members of the Ukrainian armed forces ride an armoured personnel carrier
British infantry will take part in a training mission in Ukraine, David Cameron has announced.
The military personnel will help train the Ukrainian army and supply tactical intelligence, the Prime Minister told MPs on the Liaison Committee.
Sky's Defence Correspondent Alistair Bunkall reports that around 75 British soldiers will go from the beginning of March and will be based in the west of the country, some of them for up to six months.
He said: "We are talking about medical training, infantry training, intelligence logistics and the like.
"So this is not arming them with weapons, it is arming them with knowledge and it is another aspect to Britain's help for the Ukrainian government to help them repel the Russian rebels."
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Gallery: Ukraine Crisis: Latest Pictures
People stand on top of burnt Ukrainian army tanks destroyed during fighting with the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic army in the town of Debaltseve
Kiev accused pro-Russian rebels of opening fire with rockets and artillery at villages in southeastern Ukraine on Monday, all but burying a week-old European-brokered ceasefire deal
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Members of the Ukrainian armed forces near Artemivsk. Ukraine's military said two of its soldiers had been killed and 10 wounded in the past 24 hours, signalling that fighting has not stopped to allow a truce deal to be implemented
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The German government is very concerned that there is still no comprehensive ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, and urged Moscow anew on Monday to use its influence over pro-Russian separatists
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An emptied cluster munitions container is seen stuck in the ground outside apartment blocks in the town of Yenakiieve
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Mr Cameron told MPs Britain would be "the strongest pole in the tent" making the case for harsher sanctions against Russia if pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine fail to observe the ceasefire.
Russian President Vladimir Putin denies arming the rebels in a war that has killed more than 5,600 people and forced over a million to flee their homes.
There would be "deeply damaging" consequences for Europe if the EU fails to stand up to Mr Putin over the crisis, the PM warned.
He added the Russian leader could target the Baltic states or Moldova if he is not reined in.
Mr Cameron told MPs he did not rule out arming Ukraine at some point in the future, but said supplying non-lethal support was the current approach.
It comes as European foreign ministers called for those involved in the fighting in the east of Ukraine to abide by the ceasefire.
Mr Cameron said it would be "miraculous" if the terms of the agreement were met in full.
The EU's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, has told Sky News Tonight the ceasefire negotiated in Belarus is the only option to achieve peace.
Fighting has continued around the strategically important town of Debaltseve since the ceasefire was negotiated, and Mr Cameron said he feared the rebels would target the port of Mariupol next.
This fear was echoed by Ukrainian foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin, who was speaking after the Paris talks.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has meanwhile accused Russia of repeatedly lying to him over Ukraine.
Mr Kerry told a Senate subcommittee: "Russia is engaged in a rather remarkable period of the most overt and extensive propaganda exercise that I've seen since the very height of the Cold War."
Separatists brought reporters to witness the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the front line under the ceasefire on Tuesday.
Kiev accuses the rebels of using the cover of the truce to reinforce for another advance.
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Members of the Ukrainian armed forces ride an armoured personnel carrier
British infantry will take part in a training mission in Ukraine, David Cameron has announced.
The military personnel will help train the Ukrainian army and supply tactical intelligence, the Prime Minister told MPs on the Liaison Committee.
Sky's Defence Correspondent Alistair Bunkall reports that around 75 British soldiers will go from the beginning of March and will be based in the west of the country, some of them for up to six months.
He said: "We are talking about medical training, infantry training, intelligence logistics and the like.
"So this is not arming them with weapons, it is arming them with knowledge and it is another aspect to Britain's help for the Ukrainian government to help them repel the Russian rebels."
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Gallery: Ukraine Crisis: Latest Pictures
People stand on top of burnt Ukrainian army tanks destroyed during fighting with the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic army in the town of Debaltseve
Kiev accused pro-Russian rebels of opening fire with rockets and artillery at villages in southeastern Ukraine on Monday, all but burying a week-old European-brokered ceasefire deal
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Members of the Ukrainian armed forces near Artemivsk. Ukraine's military said two of its soldiers had been killed and 10 wounded in the past 24 hours, signalling that fighting has not stopped to allow a truce deal to be implemented
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The German government is very concerned that there is still no comprehensive ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, and urged Moscow anew on Monday to use its influence over pro-Russian separatists
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An emptied cluster munitions container is seen stuck in the ground outside apartment blocks in the town of Yenakiieve
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Mr Cameron told MPs Britain would be "the strongest pole in the tent" making the case for harsher sanctions against Russia if pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine fail to observe the ceasefire.
Russian President Vladimir Putin denies arming the rebels in a war that has killed more than 5,600 people and forced over a million to flee their homes.
There would be "deeply damaging" consequences for Europe if the EU fails to stand up to Mr Putin over the crisis, the PM warned.
He added the Russian leader could target the Baltic states or Moldova if he is not reined in.
Mr Cameron told MPs he did not rule out arming Ukraine at some point in the future, but said supplying non-lethal support was the current approach.
It comes as European foreign ministers called for those involved in the fighting in the east of Ukraine to abide by the ceasefire.
Mr Cameron said it would be "miraculous" if the terms of the agreement were met in full.
The EU's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, has told Sky News Tonight the ceasefire negotiated in Belarus is the only option to achieve peace.
Fighting has continued around the strategically important town of Debaltseve since the ceasefire was negotiated, and Mr Cameron said he feared the rebels would target the port of Mariupol next.
This fear was echoed by Ukrainian foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin, who was speaking after the Paris talks.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has meanwhile accused Russia of repeatedly lying to him over Ukraine.
Mr Kerry told a Senate subcommittee: "Russia is engaged in a rather remarkable period of the most overt and extensive propaganda exercise that I've seen since the very height of the Cold War."
Separatists brought reporters to witness the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the front line under the ceasefire on Tuesday.
Kiev accuses the rebels of using the cover of the truce to reinforce for another advance.
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Eddie Ray Routh has been found guilty of murdering American Sniper author Chris Kyle and another man at a Texas shooting range.
Jurors returned the verdict against the former Marine, whose lawyers had mounted an insanity defence and argued he suffered from psychosis.
The 27-year-old was given an automatic life sentence without parole at a court in Stephenville, Texas, for the deaths of the Navy SEAL and his friend Chad Littlefield.
Chris Kyle in his military fatigues
They had taken Routh out shooting at the Rough Creek Lodge and Resort on 2 February 2013 after the defendant's mother asked Kyle to help him.
Kyle had been helping to counsel troubled veterans with shooting trips and talks.
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Family members say Routh suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Iraq and Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
Dr Randall Price, a forensic psychologist, testified during the trial that Routh was not legally insane, and said he may have got some of his ideas from watching television.
He said Routh had a paranoid disorder which was exacerbated by his use of alcohol and marijuana.
Defence lawyers said Mr Kyle described Routh as "straight-up nuts" in a text message to his friend as they drove to the shooting range.
They added that the defendant, who had been prescribed anti-psychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia, believed the men were planning to kill him.
In a phone call between Routh and a reporter from The New Yorker magazine, he said he became annoyed because Mr Littlefield was not shooting, but appeared to be watching him instead.
During the call, he said: "Are you gonna shoot? Are you gonna shoot? It's a shooting sport. You shoot. That's what got me all riled up.
"I had to take care of business. I took care of business, and then I got in the truck and left."
A forensics expert said both men were shot in the back at close range and were hit by 12 or 13 bullets.
The bodies of the two men were found at around 5pm. Both had been shot several times.
Routh was arrested outside his home and a police video showed officers trying to coax him out of his truck as he made comments including: "Is this about hell walking on Earth right now?"
Speaking in court after the sentence was handed down, Mr Littlefield's brother-in-law Jerry Richardson said: "You took the lives of two heroes, men that tried to be a friend to you.
"You became an American disgrace."
The trial has drawn huge interest because of the blockbuster Oscar-nominated film based on the former Navy SEAL's memoir about his four tours in Iraq.
Kyle is credited with the most confirmed kills of any US military sniper.
Written By Unknown on Selasa, 24 Februari 2015 | 14.59
Greece is set to submit a list of economic reforms demanded by its creditors to extend the country's bailout programme on Tuesday.
The proposals had been due in by late Monday night as a condition of the support from the European Union (EU), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The four-month loan extension is subject to the list of reforms gaining approval.
The deal was announced on Friday evening following often hostile negotiations in Brussels.
It was painted by the country's prime minister Alexis Tsipras as a victory for the Greek people though it does little to reduce its financial obligations.
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The list is understood to contain pledges to raise more in tax from the country's top earners and from a crackdown on smuggling.
The German tabloid Bild reported that the Greek government hoped to take €2.5bn (£1.8bn) more from powerful Greek tycoons, citing sources close to the hard-left government.
A similar amount would be drawn from back taxes owed to the state by individuals and businesses, Bild said.
However, the document is also said to include commitments on raising the minimum wage and protecting pensions.
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Vladimir Putin has said war between Russia and Ukraine is "unlikely".
The Russian president was being interviewed on state television when he was asked if he expected a war between the two countries.
In a reply that was published on the Kremlin's website, he said: "I think that such an apocalyptic scenario is unlikely and I hope this will never happen."
Mr Putin also said he did not see the need for another meeting with France, Germany and Ukraine on peace in the region and that he hoped the accords agreed to in Minsk would be respected.
He added that the four countries trust each other "on the whole".
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Gallery: Ukraine Crisis: Latest Pictures
Fighters with the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic ride in the back of a truck towing a mobile artillery cannon as they leave the frontline, and head towards Donetsk
A pro-Russian separatist forces' truck in Debaltseve. Despite the ceasefire the government in Kiev said armoured columns had crossed the border from Russia to reinforce the separatists
Two Australian men are set to be executed for drug smuggling after their latest appeal was rejected in Indonesia.
Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan were found guilty in 2005 of being the ringleaders of the so-called "Bali Nine" drug smuggling gang.
They were sentenced to death the following year.
Australia has been pursuing a campaign to save the men - but the Indonesian president has refused to grant them clemency.
President Joko Widodo said: "The first thing I need to say firmly is that there shouldn't be any intervention towards the death penalty because it is our sovereign right to exercise our law."
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Gallery: Australian Prisoners Convicted Over Drug Smuggling
The Bali Nine are a group of Australians jailed for attempting to smuggle over £2m of heroin out of Indonesia. Their sentences vary: some face life - the ringleaders face the firing squad
Named as one of the ringleaders of the heroin smuggling operation, Andrew Chan was 21 years old when he was arrested
Written By Unknown on Senin, 23 Februari 2015 | 14.59
Ukrainian forces have begun the process of withdrawing heavy weapons from the frontline in agreement with separatist rebels, a military spokesman has confirmed.
However, convoys of armoured vehicles have been tracked entering Ukraine from Russia, and attacks from pro-Russia rebels have been continuing near the village of Shyrokyne, close to Mariupol.
Meanwhile, at least two people have been killed and 15 others wounded after an "unknown explosive device" was thrown from a car in the government-controlled city of Kharkiv.
The incident, which is being treated as a terrorist act by the Interior Ministry, happened during a peace march to mark one year since former president Viktor Yanukovych was ousted from power. Several suspects have been detained by the Ukrainian authorities.
Speaking to Sky News, Air Chief Marshal Lord Stirrup said the UK should consider providing weapons to Ukraine, and accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of running a "gangster regime".
Ukrainian prisoners wait to be exchanged for rebel troops
Earlier on Sunday, Ukrainian government troops and rebel prisoners were exchanged across the frontline at a village in the country's war-torn east.
Some 139 Ukrainian soldiers and 52 rebels were swapped, according to a separatist official.
Video:Kerry Warns Russia Over Ukraine
The exchange took place in no-man's land near the village of Zholobok, about 12 miles from Luhansk.
The Ukrainians, some on crutches, were made to walk about two miles to a rendezvous point ahead of the exchange.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wrote on his Twitter page that he had been informed about the exchanges.
It came after Britain and the US discussed further sanctions against Russia in the wake of the breakdown of a ceasefire in Ukraine.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Moscow was being "extraordinarily craven" in its support for Ukrainian separatists in fighting that has raged in recent days.
Pro-Moscow rebels said most of the Ukrainian soldiers released were captured during fighting for the town of Debaltseve.
Some of the soldiers exchanged appeared to be injured and both sides accused the other of mistreating prisoners.
Video:Kerry Warns Russia Over Ukraine
The peace agreement signed last week in Minsk looked forward to an exchange of all prisoners as well as a cessation of hostilities.
Under the agreement, fighting was supposed to have stopped last Sunday with the pulling back of heavy weapons taking place on Tuesday.
On Saturday, Ukraine's military and the separatists accused each other of continuing to mount attacks a week after the ceasefire was called.
Ukrainian security spokesman Colonel Andriy Lysenko said one serviceman had been killed and 40 wounded in attacks over the past day.
He added that rebels were continuing to move equipment toward the port city of Mariupol.
Ukraine is concerned that rebels will try to seize the city with a view to establishing a land corridor between mainland Russia and Crimea.
A national security hotline received 18 calls about the self-styled cleric Man Haron Monis just days before he took 18 people hostage at a cafe in Sydney, a report into the siege has revealed.
The calls between December 9 and December 12 last year all concerned offensive material on his Facebook page.
Three days later he was shot dead by police, ending the 17-hour siege which left two hostages dead.
It was later revealed the Iranian-born attacker, who had long been known to security services, was out on bail at the time of the attack for a string of charges.
Releasing the government's report - the first since the siege - Prime Minister Tony Abbott admitted "the system" had let the public down.
Video:Dec: Harrowing Siege Deaths Account
"Plainly, this monster should not have been in our community," Mr Abbott told reporters in Sydney.
"He shouldn't have been allowed into the country. He shouldn't have been out on bail. He shouldn't have been with a gun. And he shouldn't have become radicalised."
The report said all 18 calls were investigated by intelligence and police authorities, but none indicated a specific intention to carry out an attack, meaning the risk assessment for Monis was not changed.
"On the basis of the information available at the time, he fell well outside the threshold to be included in the 400 highest priority counter-terrorism investigations," the review said.
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Gallery: Dec: Funerals Held For Sydney Siege Victims
A photo tribute for Katrina Dawson and Tori Johnson is seen amongst flowers at a wreath laying ceremony after they were killed in a siege in the Lindt Cafe in Sydney on 16 December
Funeral services were held for the pair on 23 December. Mr Johnson's father Ken Johnson arrives for the service at St Stephen's Uniting Church
By Tom Rayner, Middle East Reporter, on the Turkey-Syria border
A senior Turkish official has called on the international community to share more intelligence information to stem the flow of foreigners to Islamic State.
As the search continues for three London schoolgirls believed to be travelling to Syria, Cemalettin Hasimi told Sky News that Turkey cannot be expected to intercept people unless efforts are made to boost the country's travel blacklist.
"It's a global problem that requires a global response," said Mr Hasimi, who advises Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on security and foreign policy.
Turkish official Cemalettin Hasimi has called for a 'global response'
"The only way to prevent their entrance is to know their name, to have a list, so that we can take necessary measures.
"It is a proven fact (that) the best way to prevent the mobility of these groups or individuals is in the source countries."
Video:Efforts To Secure Turkey's Borders
Turkey currently has a list consisting of around 10,000 individuals who will be detained and deported should they try to enter the country.
The list, compiled as a result of information shared by intelligence agencies around the world, has grown significantly in recent months.
It has grown from 5,000 names in the summer of 2014, to 7,000 names by the end of that year.
But as the case of the three missing London teenagers has shown, the task of identifying those who intend to travel to Syria remains difficult.
Although the Metropolitan Police spoke to the girls two months ago in connection with another student who travelled to Syria, that information was not passed to Turkish authorities.
Video:Turkish Airport Security Challenges
Turkey attracts an average of 35 million visitors each year.
The country has established a network of Risk Analysis Centres at entry points, staffed by intelligence officials and expert profilers who assess travellers as they make their way into the country.
More than 500 people who were not on the travel blacklist have been detained and deported as a result of the checks over the past year.
They include a man from Norway carrying parts of an assault rifle in his luggage, and a Swedish citizen with bags of military-style camouflage and other equipment, who had travelled from Denmark.
Turkey is also stepping up its efforts along the Syria border, digging a trench nearly 60 miles long and three metres deep in the Kilis region.
Video:2014: Passports Reveal Turkey Link
It is also installing concrete walls to prevent vehicles, weapons and people being smuggled along the 600 miles of border it shares with Syria.
The governor of Kilis, Suleyman Tapsis, told Sky News authorities in the region have apprehended 184 foreigners from 34 different countries in the past year.
"We are catching them with military overalls, camouflage, binoculars and other such equipment," he said.
"They have computers and the photos we find on their USB sticks make clear they are in a troubled state of mind."
During a visit to Turkey in December, Prime Minister David Cameron insisted the UK was prepared to offer "the highest level of intelligence co-operation we can possibly achieve" with Turkey.
Written By Unknown on Minggu, 22 Februari 2015 | 14.59
Ukrainian government troops and rebels prisoners have been exchanged across the frontline at a village in the country's war-torn east.
Some 139 Ukrainian soldiers and 52 rebels were swapped, according to a separatist official.
The exchange took place in no-man's land near the village of Zholobok, about 12 miles from Luhansk.
Ukrainian prisoners wait to be exchanged for rebel troops
The Ukrainians, some on crutches, were made to walk about two miles to a rendezvous point ahead of the exchange.
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko wrote on his Twitter page that he had been informed about the exchanges.
Video:Kerry Warns Russia Over Ukraine
It came after Britain and the US discussed further sanctions against Russia in the wake of the breakdown of a ceasefire in Ukraine.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Moscow was being "extraordinarily craven" in its support for Ukrainian separatists in fighting that has raged in recent days.
Pro-Moscow rebels said most of the Ukrainian soldiers released were captured during fighting for the town of Debaltseve.
Some of the soldiers exchanged appeared to be injured and both sides accused the other of mistreating prisoners.
The peace agreement signed last week in Minsk looked forward to an exchange of all prisoners as well as a cessation of hostilities.
Video:Kerry Warns Russia Over Ukraine
Under the agreement, fighting was supposed to have stopped last Sunday with the pulling back of heavy weapons taking place on Tuesday.
On Saturday, Ukraine's military and the separatists accused each other of continuing to mount attacks a week after the ceasefire was called.
Ukrainian security spokesman Colonel Andriy Lysenko said one serviceman was killed and 40 wounded in attacks over the past day.
He added that rebels are continuing to move equipment toward the port city of Mariupol.
Ukraine is concerned that rebels will try to seize the city with a view to establishing a land corridor between mainland Russia and the Crimea.
Alexis Tsipras has said Greece "won a battle, not the war" by cutting a financial deal with Europe after days of tense negotiations.
The Greek prime minister said his country was now leaving its period of austerity and had dispensed with the "troika" of European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank inspectors who are hated by many Greeks.
In a televised statement, he told Greeks: "Yesterday we took a decisive step, leaving austerity, the bailouts and the troika behind.
"We won a battle, not the war.
"The difficulties, the real difficulties...are ahead of us."
Without a deal in Brussels, Greece faced panic when banks opened on Tuesday after the long weekend but the country has now secured a four-month extension to its EU funding.
This means it avoids bankruptcy and an exit from the euro but it has to come up with promises of economic reforms by Monday and some, such as the Irish finance minister Michael Noonan, say the deal is only a temporary reprieve.
Mr Noonan, himself from a country which endured years of austerity under its own bailout programme, says the eurozone had given nothing to the Greeks, despite the tough talk from Mr Tsipras.
He said: "Their political problem is that this a reversal of their election position.
Video:New Greek PM Sworn In
"They're now compromising and compromising quite significantly.
"The biggest threat to Greece was that their banking system would go belly up next Wednesday."
Mr Noonan said Greece now faces another bailout on top of the two totalling €240bn that it has had since 2010, adding: "Once you get them into the safe space for the next four months, there'll be another set of discussions which will effectively involve the negotiation of a third programme for Greece."
Mr Tsipras and his Syriza party won power in Greece on the back of promises to end the country's EU and IMF bailout programme and cooperation with the "troika" that monitored their compliance with the bailout deal's conditions.
Video:Greek People Ready To 'Turn A Page'
While winning support at home from Greeks who see his actions as getting tough instead of begging to Brussels and taking orders from Berlin, Mr Tsipras is still under pressure to move fast.
About a billion euros flooded out of Greek bank accounts on Friday, due to savers' fears that the talks would fail and Athens might put measures in place to stop withdrawals in preparation to bring in its own currency.
This came after about €20bn withdrawn by Greeks since December, when the prospect of a Syriza electoral victory became clear.
By Tom Rayner, Middle East Reporter, on the Turkey-Syria border
A senior Turkish official has called on the international community to share more intelligence information to stem the flow of foreigners to Islamic State.
As the search continues for three London schoolgirls believed to be travelling to Syria, Cemalettin Hasimi told Sky News that Turkey cannot be expected to intercept people unless efforts are made to boost the country's travel blacklist.
"It's a global problem that requires a global response," said Mr Hasimi, who advises Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on security and foreign policy.
Turkish official Cemalettin Hasimi has called for a 'global response'
"The only way to prevent their entrance is to know their name, to have a list, so that we can take necessary measures.
"It is a proven fact (that) the best way to prevent the mobility of these groups or individuals is in the source countries."
Video:Efforts To Secure Turkey's Borders
Turkey currently has a list consisting of around 10,000 individuals who will be detained and deported should they try to enter the country.
The list, compiled as a result of information shared by intelligence agencies around the world, has grown significantly in recent months.
It has grown from 5,000 names in the summer of 2014, to 7,000 names by the end of that year.
But as the case of the three missing London teenagers has shown, the task of identifying those who intend to travel to Syria remains difficult.
Although the Metropolitan Police spoke to the girls two months ago in connection with another student who travelled to Syria, that information was not passed to Turkish authorities.
Video:Turkish Airport Security Challenges
Turkey attracts an average of 35 million visitors each year.
The country has established a network of Risk Analysis Centres at entry points, staffed by intelligence officials and expert profilers who assess travellers as they make their way into the country.
More than 500 people who were not on the travel blacklist have been detained and deported as a result of the checks over the past year.
They include a man from Norway carrying parts of an assault rifle in his luggage, and a Swedish citizen with bags of military-style camouflage and other equipment, who had travelled from Denmark.
Turkey is also stepping up its efforts along the Syria border, digging a trench nearly 60 miles long and three metres deep in the Kilis region.
Video:2014: Passports Reveal Turkey Link
It is also installing concrete walls to prevent vehicles, weapons and people being smuggled along the 600 miles of border it shares with Syria.
The governor of Kilis, Suleyman Tapsis, told Sky News authorities in the region have apprehended 184 foreigners from 34 different countries in the past year.
"We are catching them with military overalls, camouflage, binoculars and other such equipment," he said.
"They have computers and the photos we find on their USB sticks make clear they are in a troubled state of mind."
During a visit to Turkey in December, Prime Minister David Cameron insisted the UK was prepared to offer "the highest level of intelligence co-operation we can possibly achieve" with Turkey.
