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• Asia markets tumble on Dubai debt fears

  
  Channel NewsAsia Front Page News — Authority: 727
  HONG KONG - Asian shares were slammed Friday on global investor alarm about the potential for a widespread default, following Dubais shock demand to suspend the debt of a key state company.
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• Basketball: Howard leads Magic over high-flying Hawks

  
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  ATLANTA, Georgia: Dwight Howard had 22 points and 17 rebounds as the Orlando Magic beat the Atlanta Hawks 93-76 on Thursday.
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• American Football: Packers feast on Lions in holiday NFL games

  
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  DETROIT, Michigan: Aaron Rodgers tossed three touchdown passes as the Green Bay Packers hammered Detroit 34-12, sending the Lions to their sixth consecutive US Thanksgiving Day defeat.
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• China to launch second lunar probe next year

  
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  BEIJING: China will launch its second moon orbiter next October, state media reported Friday, as it powers ahead with a space programme that has sparked concerns abroad.
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• UNICEF man shot dead near Philippine massacre site

  
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  COTABATO, Philippines: A local UN Childrens Fund (UNICEF) worker was shot dead in a lawless part of the southern Philippines close to where a political massacre occurred this week, police said Friday.
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• Nine dead in China mine accident

  
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  BEIJING: A gas explosion in a southwestern China coal mine killed nine people, state media said Friday, the latest deadly accident to strike the countrys notoriously dangerous mining sector.
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• Australia carbon cuts hit by opposition revolt

  
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  SYDNEY: Australias bid to pledge carbon cuts ahead of next months global climate talks was in serious doubt Friday as an opposition revolt over the legislation threatened to trigger snap polls.
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• Ninth Japanese victim dies after South Korean blaze

  
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  SEOUL: A tourist died on Friday from severe burns sustained in a blaze at an indoor shooting range in South Korea, becoming the ninth Japanese visitor killed in the fire, hospital authorities said.
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• South Koreas current account surplus hits 4-month high

  
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  SEOUL: South Koreas current-account surplus rose to a four-month high last month on brisk exports and reduced overseas travel spending, the central bank said Friday.
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• France hails US, Chinese climate proposals

  
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  MANAUS, Brazil: French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in Brazil Thursday for a one-day meeting on climate change and Amazon forest conservation, hailed new US and Chinese proposals on combating global warming as "extremely encouraging."
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• Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch seeks acquittal

  
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  PHNOM PENH: Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch asked Cambodias UN-backed war crimes court Friday to acquit and release him, in a surprise development on the final day of arguments in his nine-month trial.
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• Japan worries yen surge will hurt budding recovery

  
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  TOKYO: A fall in Japans jobless rate pointed at recovery in the worlds number two economy Friday, but the government fretted that the surging yen could again derail the export-reliant economy.
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• Asia markets slide on Dubai debt fears

  
  Channel NewsAsia Front Page News — Authority: 727
  HONG KONG: Asian shares tumbled in early trade Friday, following global equity markets down on fears of a widespread default after Dubai issued a shock call to suspend the debt of a key state company.
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• Namibia set to begin voting in general election

  
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  WINDHOEK: Namibians were set to begin Friday two days of voting in general elections expected to see the ruling South West Africa Peoples Organisation (SWAPO) return to power, despite a tough challenge from a new breakaway party.
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• New Zealand annual trade deficit at seven-year low

  
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  WELLINGTON: New Zealand posted its lowest annual goods trade deficit for nearly seven years in the 12 months to October amid a slump in imports, official figures showed Friday.
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• Argentine couple ready for region’s first same-sex marriage

  
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  BUENOS AIRES — A gay man tying the knot next week in Latin Americas first same-sex marriage predicted Thursday that his ground-breaking wedding will inspire other homosexual couples to follow suit. "Our December 1 civil wedding service will launch a new campaign in the coming months in different major cities to ...
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• Witnesses saw politician carry out Philippine political massacre

  
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  GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines: Many witnesses saw a Philippine politician order and participate in an election-linked massacre that claimed at least 57 lives, Justice Secretary Agnes Devanadera said Friday.
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• Horse Racing: Australian state bans hurdle racing

  
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  SYDNEY: Hurdle racing will end in the Australian state of Victoria after the 2010 season, a racing body said on Friday.
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• Claim: Pentagon tried to ‘intimidate’ journo covering Blackwater

  
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  The office of Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking soldier in the US, tried to intimidate a reporter working on a story about security contractor Blackwaters operations in Pakistan, the reporter claims. Jeremy Scahill -- whose story alleging secret assassination and ...
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• Tennis: Del Potro downs Federer in ATP semi thriller

  
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  LONDON: Juan Martin Del Potro beat Roger Federer in a three-set thriller Thursday to scrape into the ATP World Tour Finals semis with Federer by the tightest of margins.
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