Nato marks Afghan mission change

Nato has formally ended its 13-year combat mission in Afghanistan - heralding the start of a new phase of support for local Afghan troops.

Commanders lowered the flag during a ceremony in Kabul - raising the flag of the new mission named Resolute Support.
"We have lifted the Afghan people out of the darkness of despair and given them hope for the future," mission commander Gen John Campbell said.
Nato's Afghan deployment began after the 9/11 attacks against the US.
From 1 January the alliance's role will shift to a mainly training and support mission for the Afghan army.
Sunday's ceremony was low-key - held inside a gymnasium at the alliance headquarters away from the public.
A military band played as the flag of the International Security and Assistance Force (Isaf) was lowered in the presence of senior military personnel from both sides.
Unfurling the new flag, Gen Campbell said the mission "will serve as the bedrock of an enduring partnership" between Nato and Afghanistan.
"We honour coalition and Afghan fallen in this mighty struggle, those who paid the price for Afghanistan's freedom," he said, adding: "The road before us remains challenging but we will triumph."
At its peak, the US-led Isaf deployment involved more than 130,000 personnel from 50 countries.
But from 1 January, it will bring together around 12,000 men and women from Nato allies and 14 partner nations.
"The security of Afghanistan will be fully in the hands of the country's 350,000 Afghan soldiers and police. But Nato allies, together with many partner nations, will remain to train, advise and assist them," said Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in a statement.
More than a decade after this long and expensive mission began, the Taliban are still active and gaining in strength, launching a number of attacks in recent months, says the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Kabul.
This year has been the bloodiest in Afghanistan since 2001, with at least 4,600 members of the Afghan security forces dying in the fight against the Taliban.
It underscores the challenges that lie ahead of the Afghan security forces, our correspondent says.
Nearly 3,500 foreign troops have been killed since the beginning of the Nato mission.

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Cameroon air strikes on Boko Haram

Cameroon has carried out its first air strikes against militant Islamist group Boko Haram after it over-ran a military base and attacked five villages, an army spokesman has said.

The military repelled the attacks and regained control of the base, he added.
The spokesman did not confirm local media reports that the militants had killed at least 30 people.
The Nigeria-based group is increasingly carrying out cross-border raids, threatening Cameroon's security.
'Training camp dismantled' The latest fighting was the most intense, lasting for three days along several fronts, reports the BBC's Jean-David Mihamle from Cameroon's capital Yaounde.
About 1,000 militants attacked five villages, including Amchide, and seized the nearby Achigachia military base.
"After that, the head of state ordered the air force to carry out strikes. With the bombardment, the fighters were forced to decamp from Achigachia," army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck is quoted by Reuters news agency as saying.
Last week, Cameroon said it had dismantled a Boko Haram training camp on its territory, and had seized 84 children who were being trained there.
More than 40 of its soldiers have been killed in fighting with Boko Haram this year, according to Reuters.
Boko Hara

m launched its insurgency in north-eastern Nigeria in 2009, saying it wanted to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.
It recruits mainly unemployed youth and has seized large swathes of territory in Borno state, raising fears that it could launch an assault on its main city, Maiduguri.
At least 2,000 civilians have been killed by the group in Nigeria this year.
The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in April from the town of Chibok in Borno state sparked international outrage.

• Founded in 2002
• Initially focused on opposing Western education - Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language
• Launched military operations in 2009 to create Islamic state
• Thousands killed, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria - also attacked police and UN headquarters in capital, Abuja
• Some three million people affected
• Declared terrorist group by US in 2013

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The Interview makes $15m in online release

Controversial comedy The Interview has become film studio Sony's most-downloaded title of all time, just four days after its release on 24 December.

It was downloaded more than two million times as of 27 December, making back a third of its $44m (£28m) budget.
The film, about a fictional American plot to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, had previously been pulled from release over security fears.
It angered North Korea and may have triggered a cyber attack on Sony.
The hack, from a group calling itself the Guardians of Peace, led to the leaking of confidential information including upcoming movie scripts, confidential emails and actors' salaries.
Sony halted the release after unspecified threats of attacks against cinemas.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) later said its investigation into the hacking attack pointed the finger at North Korea. The country denied involvement, but described the hack as a "righteous deed".
Sony said in a statement on Sunday that the movie was made available in the US and Canada through Google services YouTube and Play, Microsoft's Xbox Video and its dedicated website in HD versions for 48-hour rental at $5.99 and for purchase at $14.99.
It made $15m (£9.6m) in its first three days on sale.
There was also a "strong turnout" for the movie's limited theatre release, after major US chains backed out of screening it.
Sony's move to cancel the film's release had garnered criticism in the US including from President Barack Obama, who said it meant freedom of expression was under threat.

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한국은 북한에 대한 높은 수준의 회담을 제공합니다

한국은 "평화 통일"을 준비하기 위해, 문제의 범위에 북한과 다음 달에 높은 수준의 회담 재개를 제공하고있다.

통일부 장관 류 Kihl - 재 그는 특히 60 년 전 한국 전쟁으로 이산 가족의 상봉을 논의하기를 희망했다.

북한에서 아직 응답이 없었다.

북한은 이전에를 인수하기위한 시도로 한국의 통일 계획을 보았다.

"남한과 북한이 평화 통일을위한 계획을 그리는 얼굴을 충족해야한다"고 류는 기자 회견에서 말했다.

"이 목적을 위해, 우리는 북한 정부가 내년 1 월에 남북 간 상호 관심사에 대한 대화를 공식 제안을합니다."

장관은 그가 북한이 제안에 "긍정적으로 응답"희망했다.

그는 서울, 평양 또는 다른 남한이나 북한의 도시에서 북한 관리들과 합의에 맞게 제공했다.

마지막으로 공식적인 높은 수준의 회담 한국 가족 드문 상봉을 선도 월에 있었다.

북한이 풍선 국경을 넘어 안티 북부 전단지를 보내는 활동가를 중지시키기에 충분한 일을하지 않는다고의 남쪽을 비난 한 후 10 월에 계획보다 회담 떨어졌다.

1950-53 년 한국 전쟁이 휴전 협정이 아닌 평화 조약에 종료 이후 남북한은 기술적으로 전쟁이었다.

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South Korea offers high-level talks to North Korea

South Korea has offered to resume high-level talks next month with North Korea on a range of issues, to prepare for a "peaceful unification".

Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae said he especially hoped to discuss the reunion of families separated by the Korean War more than 60 years ago.
There has been no response yet from Pyongyang.
The North has previously seen the South's unification plans as an attempt to take it over.
"North and South Korea should meet face to face to draw up a plan for a peaceful unification," Mr Ryoo told a news conference.
"For this purpose, we make an official proposal for the North Korean government to have a conversation about mutual concerns between North and South in January next year."
The minister said he hoped North Korea "responds positively" to the suggestion.
He offered to meet in Seoul, Pyongyang or any other South or North Korean city agreed with North Korean officials.
The last formal high-level talks were in February, leading to rare reunions for Korean families.
More talks planned in October were dropped after North Korea accused the South of not doing enough to stop activists sending anti-Northern leaflets across the border on balloons.
The two Koreas have technically been at war since the 1950-53 Korean conflict ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty.

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Greece parliament holds crucial presidency vote

Greece's parliament is holding a third and final vote on whether to approve a president nominated by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, in a move that could trigger a snap election.

The candidate, Stavros Dimas, has so far failed to get the constitutionally required majority.
Failure to elect him would force a fresh general election.
Opinion polls give a lead to the left-wing Syriza party, which has pledged to renegotiate the country's bailout deal.
This would put Greece on a collision course with its EU and IMF creditors, who have loaned the country billions of euros in exchange for deep cuts in government spending.
Syriza has vowed to keep Greece within the eurozone but wants to roll back some of the reforms imposed as part of the bailout deal.
"Syriza's victory in elections will jumpstart a massive national effort to save society and restore Greece," Syriza's leader Alexis Tsipras said in an article in Avgi newspaper.
Samaras warning In the second round of voting last week, Mr Dimas obtained 168 votes, 32 short of the 200 he required.
Greece's two-party governing coalition has 155 seats and needs support from opposition or independent lawmakers to ensure a win for former EU Environment Commissioner Mr Dimas.
In the final round, he needs the support of only 180 MPs to be appointed president - a largely ceremonial role.
But few believe he has it, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Athens.
If he does not get the votes required, parliament will be dissolved within 10 days and general elections will be called within a month, either in late January or early February.
"The Greek people don't want early elections. The Greek people understand where this adventure could lead," Prime Minister Samaras told Greek television.
Although polls suggest Syriza would win early elections, it is not clear they would win a majority.
The Greek economy has begun to show signs of recovery after years of contraction.
But unemployment remains over 25%, and many people have had wages and benefits cut.

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Bangalore blast kills Indian woman

A home-made bomb exploded outside a restaurant in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, killing a woman who was passing by and injuring five others.

The blast on Sunday night took place in a busy area and the police have described it as a "terrorist attack".
Bangalore has been on alert since earlier this month when an engineer was arrested for allegedly running a pro-Islamic State Twitter account.
Since then, police have received several threats of retaliation.
Mehdi Masroor Biswas's Twitter account had tens of thousands of followers worldwide.
The blast took place on Church Street in the central business district at 20:38 India time (15:38GMT), reports BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi in Bangalore.
Bhavani, the woman who died, was walking past the popular restaurant when the bomb placed outside its gate exploded.
Her nephew received shrapnel injuries on his left shoulder and is being treated in hospital.
"It is a professional job. The IED [improvised explosive device] and the timer is not the handiwork of an amateur. It is a terrorist organisation but we are yet to identify the group," a senior police official told BBC Hindi.
The blast has prompted a security alert in other Indian cities.
Bangalore, home to hundreds of IT companies including multinationals like IBM, Hewlett Packard and Microsoft, is considered a soft target for terror attacks and has had several low-intensity blasts in the past few years.
Last year, 16 people were injured in an explosion near the office of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
In April 2010, the Indian Premier League cricket semi-finals were moved from Bangalore to Mumbai after two devices exploded outside Bangalore's Chinnaswamy Stadium.
In July 2008, one woman was killed and several others injured when seven bombs hit crowded areas of the city.

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Italy ferry fire: Scores awaiting rescue

More than 120 people are still awaiting rescue on the deck of a blazing Italian ferry amid freezing temperatures off the Greek island of Corfu.

Helicopter crews have been winching small groups of people to safety despite gale-force winds.
The Italian coast guard said 356 of the 478 people on board had been evacuated by early Monday after a fire broke out on a car deck on Sunday.
One person is confirmed dead but a passenger has said he saw more bodies.
The Italian navy said that the body of a Greek man and his injured wife had been removed from the ship, Norman Atlantic which had been travelling from Patras in Greece to Ancona in Italy.
It is unclear how the man died but the Greek coastguard told AP that both passengers had been found trapped in a lifeboat escape chute.
The first rescue ship carrying 49 people arrived at the Italian port of Bari early on Monday morning.
A Turkish man who was on board told local reporters that he was sure that he had seen more bodies.
"I saw four people dead, with my own eyes," he said.
Hypothermia Helicopters crews fitted with night vision equipment worked through the night to rescue passengers despite difficult conditions. One hundred people were taken off the ferry during the night, the Italian coast guard said.
Italian Air Force helicopter pilot, Maj Antonio Laneve told Italian state TV that "acrid smoke" had filled his helicopter cabin, making the rescue even more challenging.
Most of the rescued passengers have been transferred to nearby ships, although some have been taken directly to hospital.
Three children and a pregnant woman are among those being treated in hospital for hypothermia, according to the Associated Press news agency.
Passengers described panicking as the heat rose, then freezing as they stood on decks awaiting rescue.
The wife of one of the cooks told journalists she had had a call from her husband saying: "I cannot breathe, we are all going to burn like rats - God save us."
Another passenger told Greek TV station Mega: "We are outside, we are very cold, the ship is full of smoke, the boat is still burning, the floors are boiling, underneath the cabins it must be burning since 5 o'clock, the boats that came (to rescue us) are gone, and we are here. They cannot take us."
The BBC's James Reynolds says that emergency workers in the port of Brindisi had waited late into the night for rescued passengers to arrive but strong winds had forced rescue vessels to try to dock elsewhere on the Italian coast.
Coast Guard Adm Giovanni Pettorino said that a member of the Italian military had been injured during the rescue.
Nearby merchant vessels aligned themselves in formation to protect the ship from waves and facilitate the rescue.
"This is a complicated rescue mission. The visibility is poor and the weather conditions are difficult, but we are confident because there are a good number of ships in the area," Greece Merchant Marine Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said.
Mr Varvitsiotis later told reporters the fire had been brought partly under control.
Most of those on board were Greek. Greek maritime official Nikos Lagadianos told AP that 234 passengers and 34 crew members were from Greece.
Others came from Italy, Turkey, Albania, Germany and several other countries. Four British nationals have been rescued from the stricken ferry, according to the UK Foreign Office.
It is not yet clear what caused the fire.
The chief executive of the Visentini group that owns the vessel, Carlo Visentini, said the ferry had passed a recent technical inspection despite a "slight malfunction" in one of the fire doors, Italy's Ansa news agency reports.
"The tests confirmed that the boat was in full working order," he said, adding that the fire door had been repaired "to the satisfaction of the inspectors".
Ferries are an important mode of transport between Greece's hundreds of islands as well as neighbouring countries.

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AirAsia plane 'at bottom of sea'

 The missing AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 is likely to be at the bottom of the sea, the head of Indonesia's search-and-rescue agency has said.

Bambang Soelistyo said the hypothesis was based on the co-ordinates of the plane when contact with it was lost.
The search is continuing for the aircraft, a day after it disappeared with 162 people on board, but no trace has been found so far.
The Airbus A320-200 was on a flight to Singapore.
The pilots had requested a course change because of bad weather but did not send any distress call before the plane disappeared from radar screens.
"Based on the co-ordinates given to us and evaluation that the estimated crash position is in the sea, the hypothesis is the plane is at the bottom of the sea," Bambang Soelistyo, the head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency, told a news conference in Jakarta.
The front page of the Beijing Times says: "Only three days before the New Year - where is the road to home?"
The reactions are similar in Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. Many on board were travelling to see their families for the year-end holiday season.
Media reports say the families are united in their prayers, hoping against hope for a miracle.
Many newspapers have published personal stories. One that has moved many people is about the Facebook post from the daughter of one of the pilots. It simply reads: "Papa come home."
Some are also calling 2014 a "year of tragedies" for the aviation industry, linking it with the flight MH370 that disappeared in March and hasn't been found yet.
Beyond the emotional coverage, commentators have been asking questions about aviation safety in the region.
South-East Asia has a fast-developing aviation sector with many carriers fighting for space, observers say. Most welcome the competition, but say safety norms have to be strengthened.
As the search continued on Monday, Indonesia air force spokesman Hadi Tjahnanto said it was being focused on an area where an oil spill had been spotted but it was not clear if it had been caused by the plane.
Meanwhile the Associated Press news agency quoted an Indonesian official as saying that objects had been spotted in the sea near Nangka island by an Australian search plane.
Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said later there was "no sufficient evidence" to link this to the missing plane.

He said that 30 ships and 15 aircraft were taking part in the search, and that "even fishermen" were being asked to join in.
AirAsia's share price fell 7% in morning trading on Monday in Kuala Lumpur.
Storm clouds Flight QZ8501 had left Surabaya in eastern Java at 05:35 on Sunday (22:35 GMT Saturday) and was due to arrive in Singapore at 08:30 (00:30 GMT).
The pilot radioed at 06:24 local time asking permission to climb to 38,000ft (11,000m) to avoid the dense storm clouds.
Indonesian officials said the request could not be immediately approved due to traffic, but the plane disappeared from the radar screens before the pilots gave any further response.
AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes said this was his "worst nightmare".
Mr Fernandes flew to Surabaya and later said: "We are very devastated by what's happened, it's unbelievable."
Oceanographer Simon Boxall told the BBC the plane should not be too difficult to find if it went into the water.
The sea floor is within diver depth, he says, and it would be "likely that they'll get answers within a few days".
Difficult year The AirAsia Indonesia plane was delivered in 2008, has flown 13,600 times, completing 23,000 hours, and underwent its last maintenance in November.
The captain, Iriyanto, had more than 20,500 flight hours, almost 7,000 of them with AirAsia, Mr Fernandes said. The co-pilot is French national Remi Emmanuel Plesel.
The AirAsia group has previously had no fatal accidents involving its aircraft. The airline has set up an emergency line for family or friends of those who may be on board. The number is +622 129 850 801.
Special centres were set up at both Singapo
e's Changi airport and Juanda international airport in Surabaya.
There were 155 passengers on board, the company said in a statement:

• 137 adults, 17 children and one infant
• Most were Indonesian but also one UK national, a Malaysian, a Singaporean and three South Koreans
• The BBC understands that the British national is Chi-Man Choi
• Two pilots and five crew were also on board - one French, the others Indonesian

This has been a difficult year for aviation in Asia - Malaysia's national carrier Malaysia Airlines has suffered two losses - flights MH370 and MH17.
Flight MH370 disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March with 239 passengers and crew. The wreckage, thought to be in the southern Indian Ocean, has still not been located.
MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in July, killing all 298 on board.

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Earn Money Online By URL Shortening Complete Guide with Urdu

Hello World! Today the topic is How we Earn Money with no Extra Efforts? 
We have thousands of opportunities for online earning so which should we choose method that is suitable for us? For answering this question Now I am going to tell you how we can make suitable Money Online With adf.ly with no hard efforts. Watch Video Below for Practical Guidance.

Adf.ly Introduction

Adf.ly is the global most popular and trusted URL shortening Service Company. It offers you to shrink your long URL and make money out of them. It’s almost same as Google, tinyurl.com bitly.com, but difference is you can earn money with Adf.ly but not with the others. You can earn a fix amount of money (depends on the clicker’s and your location) when someone visits your adf.ly link. You just Register on Adf.ly then shorten the URL and paste everywhere you want, (like Facebook, Twitter, Google plus etc.)

How to Make Money Online by Shortening URL?

STEP 1.

First you’ve to Sign Up for a free Adf.ly account. CLICK HERE to Sign Up

STEP 2.

Then there is a Shorten a link box. Shrink your link that you want. After this, place your long URL in the blank text box and click on Shrink! After you click on that button, your long URL will be changed into a short URL.

STEP 3.

Now use this Shortened URL wherever you want.

How it works?

When someone visits your shortened URL, he/she will first be watching 5 seconds advertisement and after it a SKIP AD option appears. SKIP AD Button redirects him/her to the main page whose URL you’ve shortened. In this way the visitor wait for 5 seconds which is not a huge lag of time but will surely give you money in your account. The amount you’ll earn is very less about $0.005 but just think if your one shortened link can give you $0.005 dollars then what if your that shortened link is visited by 1000 Times then you’ll make $5 without any Hard work. You just shrinked a URL and you earned $5 which is a good amount if you earned it without any efforts. Now this was only a single URL. You can shrink multiple URL’s and distribute them via social media or website or blog. The complete tutorial is given below.
If you’ve a Blog or Website then you can optimize all your links because if a needy person is visiting your website then he/she can wait for 5 seconds because it’s not a big time at all.

Formula to Make Money By URL Shortening:

1. Make Money with Social Networks using Adf.ly

Adf.ly links are not banned on any Social Networks until you start spamming people with your shortened links. So here that is the strategy. You can directly Tweet your adf.ly links on Twitter. If your Twitter Account is attached with Facebook then the same tweet will automatically be shared on your Facebook account timeline.

Suppose one thing, If you’ve minimum of 100 followers on Twitter and almost 100 friends on Facebook then it means your Adf.ly link will be shared with 200 people out there. Also if someone shares your links on Facebook or Retweet on Twitter then it’s a win-win situation. Analyze the best time of posting when most of the people are online on social Network.

Don’t post bare links on your social media, Include some text related to the URL. Like if your shortened link is about make money online then you can write it in your post like “Make Money Online Fastly. Just follow the given link to knowing about yourself. 
In this way you can get focus of your Social Media Friends. Share your best links with your friends with whom you often talk. If they like your links then you will get Facebook Shares or Retweets on Twitter easily.

If you don’t have a Twitter account then create one. Start following others. In this way you’ll get follow back from many of them. You can create more than one account. But follow the people related to the same niche as yours. Suppose you want to Share links about “Hit Songs”, then follow those people who have same interest as yours. For searching the people related to your niche, just write your niche in the Twitter, Facebook or any other social network’s search bar and you’ll find thousands of people with same interest. For mass following you need a free account in tweepi tool bar at a single click you can follow 20 people. In this way, you can follow more than 10,000 people not in a single or two days but within weeks wait for the people to follow you back. Meanwhile start posting your shrinked URLs there.

Choose some hit songs, viral videos link from YouTube or from any other popular site. Shrink their links and start posting them on your social networks.

2. Make Money from Website or Blog using Adf.ly

This method is the most successful of all but little time-consuming. You can monetize all your site’s pages and links by Adf.ly
If any person visits your site then it’s obvious that you will get more than 10 visits on your shortened links by the visitor but the deal is you should have quality content. I am telling this time-consuming because it could take a little bit to set up your blog or website then you’ve to increase its contents or posts which can’t be achieved in a single day. But if you already have a website or blog with good traffic and contents then you are also ready to make money fastly. Just start monetizing all your pages or posts and links with adf.ly.

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