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The alliance claimed they had been used as human shields by the Serbs.

African and European aid workers and several Western spies are also being held as human shields by the Shabab.

Homer is full of product placements: songs by the Sirens, shields by Hephaestus of Olympia, shahtoush woven from Cyclopean wool, not to mention Circe's drugstore on Aeaea.

The visitors were briefly taken as shields by the inmates in an effort to stop the guards from shooting, he said.

Syrian government forces have encircled east Aleppo, besieging more than 250,000 people it says are being used as human shields by "terrorists".

Some captured civilians had been used as human shields by Gaddafi's forces, said Abubakar Faraj from a hospital bed in Benghazi.

The South Shields by-election briefly threatened to be fun, when the comedian Simon Brodkin submitted nomination papers in the name of his alter ego, Lee Nelson.

Photograph: Jeon Heon-kyun/EPA Updated at 2.47pm BST 12.54pm BST Labour's candidate for the South Shields By-election, Emma Lewell-Bucampaignsigns for votes on the doorsteps of South Shields.

The Ukip leader said his party's strong showing in the Heywood and Middleton, Middlesbrough and South Shields by-elections proved that they could pose a strong challenge to Labour.

The BNP's candidate in the South Shields by-election, Lady Dorothy MacBeth Brooke, was mocked on Twitter on Thursday for her decidedly non-white skin, with her deep orange fake tan being compared to an Oompa-Loompa.

And in the South Shields by-election the Lib Dem candidate came seventh - after the BNP.