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• Syrian government drives rebels from swath of Aleppo
• Iranian vessel points weapon at U.S. helicopter: officials
• 'Viva Fidel!': Tens of thousands pay last respects to Cuba's Castro
• Yemen's Houthis form government in setback to peace process
• Under U.S. plan, Afghans may get Black Hawks to replace Russian aircraft
• Islamic State arrests shopkeepers for hiking prices in nearly besieged Mosul
• Samsung to boost dividends, review corporate structure
• UK government distances itself from Brexit strategy memo
• Fewer North Korean workers come to China as border trade tightens
• US Sailing hires Aussie Malcolm Page to lead Olympic team
• Poor diet sees scurvy reappear in Australia
• Top Asian News 1:04 a.m. GMT
• Leaning San Francisco tower seen sinking from space
• Slumping Man Utd pursue League Cup 'revenge'
• Presidents attending, skipping Castro's funeral rites
• From milk to lightbulbs, Fidel Castro reshaped life in Cuba
• UN to vote on tighter N. Korea sanctions
• Pakistan 76-0 at lunch on day 5, 2nd test vs. New Zealand
• Venezuelan served sentence for drugs, now faces deportation
• Cubans sign 'oath' to Castro's revolution
• Ohio campus attacker identified as Somali student
• Malaysian DJ samples indigenous music to spread land rights message
• Europe's match-fixing problem highlighted by players' survey
• Residents of Iraq's Mosul fight, jostle over food
• Exodus as Syria rebels lose northeast Aleppo
• Drug smuggling at ports in Peru rises as dockworkers lured: government
• First commercial US-Havana flight lands in ramped-up travel
• Napoli 'teenagers' held to 1-1 draw by Sassuolo in Serie A
• U.S. says biofuels program not expected to meet targeted emissions cuts
• Taliban fighter case stirs question on law of armed conflict
• U.N. Security Council to vote Wednesday on North Korea sanctions: diplomats
• French strike thought to kill Al-Qaeda ally Belmokhtar
• In drawn-out battle of Mosul, limits of Iraqi military show
• Brazil's leftist opposition seek Temer probe, impeachment
• United Airlines 747 returns to SF after engine failure
• Fidel Castro and his (many) women
• UN Security Council set to approve new NKorea sanctions
• Healing wounds, looted art reunited with Nazi victims' heirs
• Las Palmas beats Athletic Bilbao 3-1 in Spanish league

Syrian government drives rebels from swath of Aleppo Posted: 28 Nov 2016 10:53 AM PST By Tom Perry and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army and its allies announced the capture of a large swath of eastern Aleppo from rebels on Monday in an accelerating attack that threatens to crush the opposition in its most important urban stronghold. Two rebel officials said the insurgents, facing fierce bombardment and ground attacks, had withdrawn from the northern part of eastern Aleppo to a more defensible front line along a big highway after losses that threatened to split their enclave. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the northern portion of eastern Aleppo lost by the rebels amounted to more than a third of the territory they had held, calling it the biggest defeat for the opposition in Aleppo since 2012.

Iranian vessel points weapon at U.S. helicopter: officials Posted: 28 Nov 2016 02:16 PM PST By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard vessel pointed its weapon at a U.S. military helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, two U.S. defense officials told Reuters on Monday, an action they described as "unsafe and unprofessional." The incident is the latest in a series of similar actions by Iranian vessels this year, but the first reported since Republican Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 8. During his campaign, Trump vowed that any Iranian vessel that harassed the U.S. Navy in the Gulf would be "shot out of the water," if he was elected. Trump is due to take office on Jan. 20.

'Viva Fidel!': Tens of thousands pay last respects to Cuba's Castro Posted: 28 Nov 2016 01:33 PM PST By Nelson Acosta and Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Cubans, some wrapped in red, white and blue Cuban flags, paid final respects in Havana on Monday to Fidel Castro, who led a leftist revolution, ruled for half a century and resisted the United States throughout the Cold War. Castro died on Friday at the age of 90, a decade after stepping down due to poor health and ceding power to his brother Raul Castro. While he had been retired as an active leader, his death removed any impediment on his brother to pursue deeper relations with Washington if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump warms to the idea of improved ties.

Yemen's Houthis form government in setback to peace process Posted: 28 Nov 2016 11:49 AM PST Yemen's armed Houthi movement and its political allies formed a new government on Monday, the Houthi-run state news agency Saba reported, in what appeared a blow to U.N.-backed efforts to end 20 months of war in the country. Diplomats had hoped the Houthis, who control the capital Sanaa, would hold off on putting together a cabinet of their loyalists and instead form a unity government with their Yemeni foes, whom they pushed into Saudi exile. The Houthis, who control territory with more than half of Yemen's population, previously said forming a government with their allies did not mean abandoning the U.N.-sponsored peace process.

Under U.S. plan, Afghans may get Black Hawks to replace Russian aircraft Posted: 28 Nov 2016 03:36 PM PST By Josh Smith KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. military wants to replace Afghanistan's well-worn fleet of Russian helicopters with American-made aircraft, according to a new budget proposal, a decision aimed at reducing the Afghan air force's decades-long reliance on Russian equipment. The Afghan air force, trained and assisted by NATO advisers, has slowly gained strength, but remains too small to meet the needs of security forces struggling to combat a stubborn Taliban insurgency. Now the U.S. Defence Department is requesting funding to refurbish and update 53 older-model U.S. military UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters for the Afghans, enough to replace the current fleet of Russian-designed Mi-17 helicopters.

Islamic State arrests shopkeepers for hiking prices in nearly besieged Mosul Posted: 28 Nov 2016 12:57 PM PST By Ulf Laessing MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Islamic State has arrested dozens of Mosul shop owners accused of raising food prices in the nearly besieged city, to tamp down discontent as a U.S.-backed offensive closes in on the group's last major stronghold in Iraq, residents said on Monday. The arrests took place on Sunday morning in Bursa, a commercial district in the western part of the city, said a witness who asked not be identified as Islamic State punishes with death those caught communicating with the outside world. About 30 shop owners in the area were arrested and taken away blindfolded to unknown destinations, he said.

Samsung to boost dividends, review corporate structure Posted: 28 Nov 2016 05:33 PM PST Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it will increase shareholder returns and review its corporate structure as investors step up pressure to reform the South Korean tech giant's governance structure following ...

UK government distances itself from Brexit strategy memo Posted: 28 Nov 2016 05:27 PM PST The British government on Monday distanced itself from a memo outlining plans for Brexit spotted as a lawmaker left Downing Street, which included the aim to "have cake and eat it". Have cake and eat it," read the hand-written paper held by an aide accompanying Mark Field, a London MP for the ruling Conservative Party. The notes were caught by a photographer as Field left the Department for Exiting the European Union -- an office set up in the wake of Britain's shock June 23 vote to leave the bloc.

Fewer North Korean workers come to China as border trade tightens Posted: 28 Nov 2016 05:19 PM PST By Sue-Lin Wong DANDONG, China (Reuters) - A labor agent sat in his bus on a recent frigid morning, waiting to cross the "Friendship Bridge" at China's main border post with North Korea. "I used to bring at least 40-50 North Korean factory workers and waiters across at least once a month but it's less frequent now," said Liu, the labor agent, who did not want to give his full name. "I don't think China wants them to come and work here anymore." Their numbers have, indeed, been dropping of late, said Lu Chao, Director of the Border Study Institute at the Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences, a Chinese government think-tank.

US Sailing hires Aussie Malcolm Page to lead Olympic team Posted: 28 Nov 2016 05:18 PM PST SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. Sailing is turning to two-time gold medalist Malcolm Page of Australia to try to turn around the American Olympic team's sagging fortunes.

Poor diet sees scurvy reappear in Australia Posted: 28 Nov 2016 05:13 PM PST Scurvy, a disease historically associated with old-world sailors on long voyages, is making a surprise comeback in Australia with health officials Tuesday revealing a spate of cases. Caused by vitamin C deficiency, it used to be a common, and often fatal, curse among seafarers who went months without fresh fruit and vegetables. Now considered rare, it is reappearing due to poor dietary habits, said Jenny Gunton, who heads the Centre for Diabetes, Obesity and Endocrinology research at the Westmead Institute in Sydney.

Top Asian News 1:04 a.m. GMT Posted: 28 Nov 2016 05:04 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years after being brought to the U.S. to face charges in an attempted attack on American forces in Afghanistan, Irek Hamidullin is arguing he should never have been prosecuted at all. A federal court appeal from Hamidullin, a former Russian army officer who later fought alongside Taliban-affiliated forces, raises anew the question of how the U.S. government should handle people captured overseas for acts of violence they commit against the American military. At issue is whether Hamidullin should be regarded as an ordinary criminal or, as he contends, a lawful combatant entitled to be treated as a prisoner of war and immune from the U.S.

Leaning San Francisco tower seen sinking from space Posted: 28 Nov 2016 04:55 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Engineers in San Francisco have tunneled underground to try and understand the sinking of the 58-story Millennium Tower. Now comes an analysis from space.

Slumping Man Utd pursue League Cup 'revenge' Posted: 28 Nov 2016 04:49 PM PST Manchester United midfielder Ander Herrera says his side will be out for "revenge" when they welcome West Ham United back to Old Trafford in the League Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday. West Ham held Herrera and his team-mates to a 1-1 draw on Sunday in a Premier League match that saw United manager Jose Mourinho sent to the stands for angrily kicking a water bottle. United have made their worst start to a league season since 1989, drawing their last four home games, and Herrera warned Slaven Bilic's West Ham players to brace themselves for a backlash.

Presidents attending, skipping Castro's funeral rites Posted: 28 Nov 2016 04:48 PM PST Havana (AFP) - African and Latin American heads of state will attend funeral rites for Cuba's communist icon Fidel Castro on Tuesday, but US President Barack Obama and several European leaders are staying away.

From milk to lightbulbs, Fidel Castro reshaped life in Cuba Posted: 28 Nov 2016 04:38 PM PST HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro changed the flavor of the milk Cuban children drink at breakfast.

UN to vote on tighter N. Korea sanctions Posted: 28 Nov 2016 04:35 PM PST The United Nations is readying tighter sanctions on North Korea that would limit its coal exports to China, in response to Pyongyang's fifth and biggest nuclear test, US diplomats said Monday. The resolution, spearheaded by the United States and negotiated with Beijing for three months, should go to a Security Council vote early Wednesday, according to diplomats who expect it will pass. "This resolution would impose a hard, binding cap that will cut the DPRK's coal exports, which are its largest single source of external revenues, by more than 60 percent," said a US official familiar with the text, using the formal acronym for the North.

Pakistan 76-0 at lunch on day 5, 2nd test vs. New Zealand Posted: 28 Nov 2016 04:29 PM PST HAMILTON, New Zealand (AP) — The second test between New Zealand and Pakistan remained in the balance at lunch on the final day Tuesday as Pakistan openers Sami Aslam and Azhar Ali batted through a first session in which only 75 runs were scored.

Venezuelan served sentence for drugs, now faces deportation Posted: 28 Nov 2016 04:24 PM PST SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A Venezuelan man who is HIV positive and is in the U.S. legally was arrested in Portland in a pre-dawn raid because of a methamphetamine possession conviction, his immigration lawyer and a rights group said on Monday.

Cubans sign 'oath' to Castro's revolution Posted: 28 Nov 2016 04:19 PM PST In hundreds of schools, hospitals and public buildings, Cubans signed a "solemn oath" on Monday to defend the revolution following the death of communist leader Fidel Castro. Instead of leaving messages in books of condolence, Cubans were invited to endorse the "concept of the revolution" defined by Castro in a speech in 2000, six years before illness forced him to hand power to his brother, Raul. "The signature shows the desire of Cubans to make this socialist revolution irreversible," said retired lieutenant colonel Rigoberto Cerolio, 80, at a school in Havana.

Ohio campus attacker identified as Somali student Posted: 28 Nov 2016 04:16 PM PST A university student, reportedly of Somali descent, rammed his car Monday into a crowd of people at Ohio State University and attacked them with a butcher knife, injuring 11 before police fatally shot him. Identifying the assailant as Abdul Razak Ali Artan, officials in the northern US state said he appeared to have acted alone in what was being investigated as a possible terror attack. The whole incident lasted just a few minutes -- from the car careening into the crowd until the suspect was shot dead -- but triggered a tense lockdown on the university's main campus in Columbus, with panicked students hiding in bathrooms before the scene was declared secure.

Malaysian DJ samples indigenous music to spread land rights message Posted: 28 Nov 2016 04:11 PM PST By Alisa Tang CHIANG MAI, Thailand (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Atama Katama had spent a decade through the 1990s DJ-ing hip hop at clubs across Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand when a fellow DJ asked him a question that sparked his curiosity about his indigenous roots in the Malaysian state of Sabah. "Your father is the Bob Marley of Sabah. Atama, who was born Andrew Ambrose but goes by the indigenous name given to him 12 years ago, likens his father, the late indigenous singer-songwriter Ambrose Mudi, to Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra.

Europe's match-fixing problem highlighted by players' survey Posted: 28 Nov 2016 04:02 PM PST LONDON (AP) — European soccer's challenge in eradicating match-fixing has been highlighted by a large number of players in Cyprus and Malta telling the world players' union that they have been approached to fix games.

Residents of Iraq's Mosul fight, jostle over food Posted: 28 Nov 2016 03:59 PM PST MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Residents of the Iraqi city of Mosul fought each other around trucks delivering humanitarian aid as they jostled for scant supplies on Monday, while government troops fighting to retake the city from Islamic State militants inched closer toward the city center.

Exodus as Syria rebels lose northeast Aleppo Posted: 28 Nov 2016 03:48 PM PST Syria's rebels lost all of the northern neighbourhoods of their stronghold in east Aleppo on Monday, as the army made significant advances in its offensive to recapture the entire city. The regime gains have prompted an exodus of thousands of desperate civilians, some fleeing to districts held by the government or Kurdish forces, others heading south into areas still under opposition control. "The situation is disastrous," said Ibrahim Abu Al-Leith, a spokesman for the White Helmets rescue group in the Ansari neighbourhood.

Drug smuggling at ports in Peru rises as dockworkers lured: government Posted: 28 Nov 2016 03:44 PM PST Drug trafficking from Peruvian ports has risen in recent years as criminal networks groom dockworkers to smuggle packets of cocaine into shipping containers, the country's new anti-narcotics agency, Devida, said on Monday. Some 90 dockworkers in Peru have been killed in the past two years in crimes believed to have been linked to smuggling, said Devida's president, Carmen Masias. Traffickers lure dockworkers by getting them hooked on drugs or offering lavish pay to gain access to ships bound for ports around the world, where their counterparts pick up the cocaine in a sophisticated cross-border smuggling ring, Masias said.

First commercial US-Havana flight lands in ramped-up travel Posted: 28 Nov 2016 03:42 PM PST HAVANA (AP) — Just three days after the death of Fidel Castro, the first scheduled commercial flight from the U.S. to Havana in more than 50 years landed Monday to the applause of passengers and a water-spraying salute from firetrucks.

Napoli 'teenagers' held to 1-1 draw by Sassuolo in Serie A Posted: 28 Nov 2016 03:32 PM PST MILAN (AP) — Napoli was again made to count the cost of missed opportunities as it was held 1-1 by Sassuolo in Serie A on Monday.

U.S. says biofuels program not expected to meet targeted emissions cuts Posted: 28 Nov 2016 03:07 PM PST The U.S. biofuels program, designed to boost demand for renewables in gasoline and diesel, is unlikely to meet its targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the government said in two reports on Monday. The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the more than decade-old biofuels policy, is unlikely to meet targeted cuts to emissions by 2022 as production of second-generation renewable fuels lags, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report on Monday. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) each year sets targets for the volumes of ethanol and biodiesel required to be blended with petroleum-based fuels.

Taliban fighter case stirs question on law of armed conflict Posted: 28 Nov 2016 03:02 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years after being brought to the U.S. to face charges in an attempted attack on American forces in Afghanistan, Irek Hamidullin is arguing he should never have been prosecuted at all.

U.N. Security Council to vote Wednesday on North Korea sanctions: diplomats Posted: 28 Nov 2016 02:49 PM PST By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council is set to vote on Wednesday to impose new sanctions on North Korea for its fifth and largest nuclear test, slashing Pyongyang's export earnings by some $800 million, diplomats said on Monday. Diplomats said the council's five veto-wielding powers - the United States, China, Britain, Russia and France - had agreed to new measures, seen by Reuters on Friday, that largely target the hermit Asian state's coal export earnings. "We didn't get everything we wanted," said a U.S. official familiar with the draft resolution, though he added the proposed new sanctions were "pretty good." North Korea has been under U.N. sanctions since 2006 over its nuclear and missile tests.

French strike thought to kill Al-Qaeda ally Belmokhtar Posted: 28 Nov 2016 02:46 PM PST One-eyed hostage killer Mokhtar Belmokhtar, one of Al-Qaeda's most notorious allies in North Africa, was said Monday to have been slain in a French air strike. A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed a report in the Wall Street Journal that US intelligence helped France target the veteran jihadist. The news came as French defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was in Washington for talks with his US counterpart Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

In drawn-out battle of Mosul, limits of Iraqi military show Posted: 28 Nov 2016 02:46 PM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — When Iraq's top generals finalized the plan to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group, they gave themselves six months to finish the job.

Brazil's leftist opposition seek Temer probe, impeachment Posted: 28 Nov 2016 02:31 PM PST By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Leftist opponents of Brazil's President Michel Temer sought on Monday to have him investigated and impeached for his alleged role in pressuring a former culture minister to approve a property development. While the impeachment bid is not expected to gain sufficient backing, Brazil's public prosecutor is already studying whether to investigate the charge by the former minister, Marcelo Calero, that Temer had sided with another Cabinet member who lobbied him to override historic preservation rules for a luxury apartment building in Salvador, Brazil's former colonial capital. The latest corruption scandal in Temer's government has added to political uncertainty delaying the recovery of Latin America's largest economy from its worst recession since the 1930s.

United Airlines 747 returns to SF after engine failure Posted: 28 Nov 2016 02:29 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A United Airlines Boeing 747 has returned to San Francisco after one of its four engines failed shortly after takeoff.

Fidel Castro and his (many) women Posted: 28 Nov 2016 02:24 PM PST With his rugged rebel look and seductive charisma, Fidel Castro was known not only as a giant of 20th century history, but also as quite the ladies' man. The New York Post put the figure at a stunning 35,000 in a 2008 article, a figure that came from an unnamed former official. Journalist Ann Louise Bardach wrote in a 2009 book that Castro told her he had fathered "almost a tribe" of children.

UN Security Council set to approve new NKorea sanctions Posted: 28 Nov 2016 02:22 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (AP) — After months of wrangling, the U.N. Security Council is prepared to impose new, tougher sanctions on North Korea over its fifth and largest nuclear test yet, diplomats said Monday.

Healing wounds, looted art reunited with Nazi victims' heirs Posted: 28 Nov 2016 02:19 PM PST PARIS (AP) — Scam. That was Henrietta Schubert's first thought when lawyers told her a 16th century Flemish painting hanging in a French museum belonged to her Jewish grandparents, who had sold it in 1938 to secure their passage from Nazi Germany to America.

Las Palmas beats Athletic Bilbao 3-1 in Spanish league Posted: 28 Nov 2016 02:19 PM PST MADRID (AP) — Kevin-Prince Boateng scored in the first half to lead Las Palmas to a 3-1 win over 10-man Athletic Bilbao in the Spanish league on Monday.

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