au-hotdailynews: 2014-12-29 Australia World

AirAsia plane 'likely at bottom of the sea'
Sky News Australia
The missing AirAsia passenger plane 'is likely at the bottom of the sea', the chief of Indonesia's search effort has said. Bambang Soelistyo added that an initial investigation into the disappearance of Flight QZ8501 had revealed that the 'estimated crash ...

Missing AirAsia plane: 'God willing, we can find it soon'   New Zealand Herald
AirAsia live: Search ops resumed but no trace of missing QZ8501 yet   Firstpost
Indonesian rescue agency says missing AirAsia plane believed to have crashed ...   Jerusalem Post
Zee News
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Italy ferry fire: Scores awaiting rescue
BBC News
Almost three hundred people are awaiting rescue from an Italian ferry that caught fire north-west of Corfu. Rescue operations are continuing despite massive waves and strong winds. The Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, said it would be a "long night".
Airlift underway for hundreds trapped on burning ferry off Greece   Daily Times
Rescue Under Way for Hundreds on Burning Ferry Off Greek Coast   Wall Street Journal
Burning ferry being towed to Italy with hundreds still on board   Sydney Morning Herald
Voice of America
Daily Mail
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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 ...

US-led mission in Afghanistan ends combat role; thousands of foreign troops ...   euronews
Around an Invisible Leader, Taliban Power Shifts   New York Times
5 Things You May Have Missed This Weekend   ABC News
The Age
The Nation
DAWN.com
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Sombre Christmas for Greste as he awaits New Year appeal
Sydney Morning Herald
Jailed Australian journalist Peter Greste marked a "sombre" Christmas, his first behind bars in Egypt. Mike and Andrew Greste addressed the media in Brisbane on Monday morning to mark 12 months since their brother was arrested, and three days until the ...

Hopes dim for release of Australian Al Jazeera journalist jailed in Egypt   Jerusalem Post
'Justice delayed is justice denied': Peter Greste's family calls for his release   9news.com.au
Peter Greste's brothers hang hopes on reporter's Egypt appeal   The Australian
AsiaOne
The West Australian
Eagle Radio
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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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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 ...

Palestine pushes for UN resolution to end Israeli occupation   Christian Science Monitor
Palestinians pushing for UN vote on Israeli withdrawal   Washington Post
Hamas blocks Gaza war orphans' Israel trip   The Daily Star
The Guardian
BBC News
Haaretz
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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 ...

Queen's Guards move 'after UK terror fear'   Sky News Australia
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
The Independent
Bloomberg
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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   ABC News

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Top Iranian killed
Irish Independent
A senior commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard has been killed during a battle against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq. Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Email. Go To. Comments. Brigadier General Hamid Taqavi was "martyred while ...

Iran loses senior commander in clash with IS   DAWN.com
Iranian General Killed by Islamic State in Iraq   Voice of America
Iranian Senior Commander Killed In Iraq   RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
The Daily Star
Tehran Times
Reuters
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Islamic State militants execute nearly 2000 people in six months: rights monitor
ABC Online
The Islamic State militant group has killed 1,878 people in Syria during the past six months, the majority of them civilians, a British-based Syrian monitoring organisation says. Islamic State also killed 120 of its own members, most of them foreign fighters trying ...

Islamic State executed nearly 2000 people in six months: monitor   The Age
Rights Group Says IS Killed 120 Foreign Fighters   RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Islamic State Emergence Transformed Syria, Iraq in 2014   Voice of America
Times of India
Al-Arabiya
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