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• SKorea's defense chief resigns after NKorea attack Nov 25, 2021 08:01 PM
  
  • YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea - South Korea's president ordered more troops to a front-line island and dumped his defense minister as the country grappled with lapses in its response to a deadly North Korean artillery strike.
  • The spit of land is just seven miles (11 kilometers) from North Korea, but had only six pieces of artillery.
  • Despite warnings from North Korea that any new provocation would be met with more attacks, Washington and Seoul pushed ahead with plans for military drills starting Sunday involving a nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier in waters south of this week's skirmish.

  • 3 teens rescued after 50 days adrift in S. Pacific Nov 25, 2021 07:55 PM
    
    • WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Three teenagers survived 50 days adrift in a tiny boat in the South Pacific by drinking rainwater and eating raw fish and a seagull before being rescued by a passing trawler, a senior crewman on the fishing vessel said.
    • The trio - Samuel Pelesa and Filo Filo, both 15, and Edward Nasau, 14 - had been given up for dead on their coral atoll in the Tokelau islands, where a memorial service was held for them after extensive searches failed to find them.
    • Worried family members reported them missing and the New Zealand air force launched a sea search.

    • Merkel, Sarkozy want quick bailout for Ireland Nov 25, 2021 07:23 PM
      
      • BERLIN - The 16-nation euro currency will survive the debt crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Thursday, and a senior central banker said the European Union would be willing to increase its ?750 billion ($1 trillion) bailout fund if necessary.
      • Axel Weber, the head of Germany's central bank and a leading rate-setter at the European Central Bank, said Thursday that European nations would be willing to boost the emergency fund by as much as ?100 billion ($133 billion) to fully cover the total public debt load of Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain.
      • But when Merkel and Sarkozy discussed the eurozone's troubles on the phone Thursday evening they said the ?750 billion emergency fund for the euro would remain unchanged until it expires in 2013, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.

      • More than 600,000 people killed by 2nd-hand smoke Nov 25, 2021 07:14 PM
        
        • LONDON - Second-hand smoke kills more than 600,000 people worldwide every year, according to a new study.
        • They found 40 percent of children and more than 30 percent of non-smoking men and women regularly breathe in second-hand smoke.
        • Peruga said WHO was particularly concerned about the 165,000 children who die of smoke-related respiratory infections, mostly in Southeast Asia and Africa.

        • Brady throws 4 TD passes, Patriots top Lions 45-24 Nov 25, 2021 06:02 PM
          
          • DETROIT - Tom Brady was perfect on the field and his exit was first class.
          • Brady threw a season-high four touchdown passes, all in the second half, and the New England Patriots routed the Detroit Lions 45-24 on Thursday after trailing by 11 late in the second quarter.
          • "We showed some resiliency, coming out in the second half and playing the way we did when the crowd was into it," Brady said.

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