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　　Investors⁴ on Wall Street kept a close eye on Black Friday shopping. The Dow Jones industrial average lost nearly 11 points to close at 16,086. The Nasdaq rose 15 points to close above 4,059. For the week,the Dow gained more than 0.5 percent; the Nasdaq rose 2 percent.

　　President Obama and the first lady visited people who are fasting to protest congressional inaction onimmigration legislation. They stopped by the tent on the National Mall where the activists⁵ have been on a hunger strike for the past 18 days. The president told them he appreciated their efforts. House Speaker John Boehner has so far refused to schedule votes on an immigration measure the Senate passed this summer.

　　China moved for the first time today to enforce its newly declared air defense⁶ zone. It scrambled⁷ two of its fighter jets to investigate flights by a dozen American and Japanese surveillance planes. The new defense zone includes airspace above a group of uninhabited islands claimed by Japan in the East China Sea. China has demanded that all aircraft flying into the area notify the Chinese they are coming or face military action.

　　Thousands of people took to the streets of the Ukrainian capital today. They massed in Kiev after President Viktor Yanukovych abandoned a landmark⁸ trade deal with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia. Demonstrators waved Ukrainian and E.U. flags while calling for the president's resignation. Some also formed a human chain in support of European integration⁹.

　　OREST PODDOLYAK, protester (through interpreter): We want to tell the whole world that Ukrainians are a European nation, because we proclaim, and I think a lot of people here support me, that European values, a European standard of living, education, medicine, and corresponding European standards are suitable for us.

　　HARI SREENIVASAN: E.U. leaders flatly blamed Russia for the deal's disintegration¹⁰. Russia had workedto derail it by threatening Ukraine with giant gas bills and trade sanctions.

　　Protests also raged for a sixth day in Thailand. Some 1,200 anti-government demonstrators swarmed¹¹ Thaiarmy headquarters in Bangkok, appealing for help in overthrowing¹² their prime minister. A separate group also marched on the U.S. Embassy. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has proposed a dialogue with members of the opposition¹³. But they have rejected the offer.

　　NATO officials in Afghanistan have launched an investigation¹⁴ into a drone strike that killed a child and wounded two women. They say yesterday's airstrike targeted an insurgent¹⁵ in Helmand Province. The commander of U.S. and coalition¹⁶ forces in Afghanistan called President Hamid Karzai to apologize for thecivilian deaths. But Karzai warned, if such attacks continue, he will not sign a security deal with the U.S. to allow troops to stay in the country beyond 2014.

　　A new report from the U.N. High Commissioner¹⁷ for Refugees found Syrian refugee children are often the breadwinners for their families. Since the civil war began more than three years ago, at least half the refugees who have fled Syria are children, 1.1 million. Many work long hours of manual labor¹⁸ in Lebanon and Jordan, where they are cheap labor. The 65-page U.N. report called for quick action to get refugee children back into school.

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