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Indonesia searches Java Sea for missing AirAsia plane, relatives wait
Reuters
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia searched the Java Sea on Monday for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people that went missing after its pilot failed to gain permission to alter course to avoid a storm cell during a flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to ...

AirAsia Jet's Vanishing Echoes a Tragedy   New York Times
AirAsia's QZ8501 with 162 onboard goes missing: Indonesia halts search   Firstpost
Search expands for missing AirAsia passenger jet   KVVU Las Vegas
KCRA Sacramento
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Greek ferry fire: 1 dead; hundreds still trapped, awaiting airlift in Adriatic Sea off ...
Firstpost
Athens: Air crews began lifting passengers off a burning ferry adrift in the Adriatic Sea on Sunday, racing to rescue as many of the hundreds trapped on board as possible before nightfall as storms hampered seaborne operations. Helicopters were taking ...

Italy ferry fire: Scores awaiting rescue   BBC News
Airlift underway for hundreds trapped on burning ferry off Greece   Daily Times
1 dead, hundreds stranded in Greek ferry disaster   Washington Post
ABC News
Voice of America
euronews
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US, NATO Mark End of Afghanistan Mission
Voice of America
ISLAMABAD—. The NATO-led military alliance in Afghanistan formally ended its 13-year-long combat mission, leaving a relatively under-trained Afghan national security force to fight the deadly Taliban insurgency largely on its own. A special ceremony was ...

Obama says, Afghanistan still ''dangerous place''   Zee News
US-led mission in Afghanistan ends combat role; thousands of foreign troops ...   euronews
Around an Invisible Leader, Taliban Power Shifts   New York Times
ABC News
The Nation
Xinhua
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Croatia presidency to be decided in runoff
Times of India
ZAGREB (Croatia): The liberal incumbent and a conservative rival are heading for a showdown in a runoff presidential election in Croatia, according to the preliminary count of the Sunday poll, held amid severe economic woes in EU's newest member.
Croatian presidential candidates set for election run-off   The Guardian
Croatians vote for president under economic crisis   The Nation
Croatia Presidential Poll to Go to Runoff   Voice of America
Deutsche Welle
Wall Street Journal
BBC News
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IS planning attack on Queen's guards: Report
Hindustan Times
Soldiers guarding key Royal palaces in the UK are on high alert following reports of a planned attack on the Queen's guards by Islamic State (IS) militants. The Queen's Guard have been warned about the threat to kidnap and murder one of their member by IS ...

Palace guards retreat amid terror fears   The Times (subscription)
The Queen's Royal Guards fall back in face of mounting fears of new 'lone wolf ...   Daily Mail
Buckingham Palace guards withdrawn amid fears of 'lone wolf' terror attack   Express.co.uk
SBS
The Independent
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Palestinian President Says UN Security Council Resolution to be Submitted
Wall Street Journal
The Palestinian president said a draft resolution will be submitted to the United Nations Security Council on Monday calling for an Israeli withdrawal from West Bank within three years. The resolution will put pressure on Israel and the U.S., who both consider ...

Palestinians pushing for UN vote on Israeli withdrawal   Washington Post
Hamas blocks Gaza war orphans' Israel trip   The Daily Star
Hamas asks Palestine to withdraw draft UNSC resolution   Zee News
The Guardian
Business Standard
DAWN.com
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Thousands stranded in French Alps due to extreme weather
Irish Times
Freak snowfalls and ice yesterday stranded more than 15,000 vehicles in the French Alps, where two people died in the extreme weather conditions and crowds of skiers bedded down at Chambéry airport. Local authorities across four French départements, ...

Snow blankets Europe   Gulf Daily News
Snow Strands Thousands in French Alps   Voice of America
50 Britons trapped in French Alps gymnasium after heavy snow   DAWN.com
News24
Daily Mail
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Winston Churchill quietly flirted with Islam — to the point that relatives feared he ...
National Post
He is indelibly associated with the fight to preserve Britain and its Empire from Nazi invasion and his subsequent denouncement of Soviet totalitarianism's Iron Curtain. In the public eye, Sir Winston Churchill's long political career earned him a place among ...

How a young Winston Churchill fell for Islam   The Australian (blog)
1907 letter shows Churchill's relative worried he would convert to Islam   Haaretz
Did Winston Churchill consider converting to Islam?   Hindustan Times
Daily Mail
The Inquisitr
Press TV
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Sri Lanka Muslim Party to support Maithri
Lanka Business Online
Dec 29,2014 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's main Muslim party, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Sunday quit the government and pledged support to the opposition Candidate Maithripala Sirisena at the forthcoming Presidential Election, a media report said. Sri Lanka Muslim ...

* Sri Lanka Muslim Congress decides to support opposition candidate   Colombo Page
S Lanka Muslim party quits govt   Independent Online
Sri Lanka's Largest Muslim Party Leaves Gov't   New York Times
Economic Times
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TIME

ISIS Executed Almost 2000 People in Syria Over the Past Six Months
TIME
ISIS executed 1,878 people in Syria over the past six months, including 120 of its own members, a U.K.-based Syrian human rights group said on Sunday. Most of the people killed by the Islamist terror group were civilians, including 930 members of a Sunni ...

Islamic State militants execute nearly 2000 people in six months: rights monitor   ABC Online
Rights Group Says IS Killed 120 Foreign Fighters   RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Islamic State executed nearly 2000 people in six months: monitor   The Age

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