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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2016 WORLD IN BRIEF Russia’s Defense Ministry said the areas captured by Syr- ian government troops include 10 neighborhoods and over 3,000 buildings in the past few days. The ministry added in a statement that more than 100 rebels have laid down their arms and exited the Syrian city’s eastern suburbs. Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and former commercial center, has been contested since the summer of 2012 and a rebel defeat in the city would be a turning point in the five-year conflict. If Syrian forces capture all of east Aleppo, President Bashar Assad’s gov- ernment will be in control of the country’s four largest cities as well as the coastal region. The government’s push, backed by thousands of Shiite militia fighters from Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran, and under the cover of the Russian air force, has laid waste to Aleppo’s eastern neighbor- hoods. Medical and food supplies have run short in recent weeks as Syrian warplanes pounded the besieged enclave, rendering all remaining functioning hospitals out of service. Simultaneous advances by Syrian government and Kurd- ish-led forces on Sunday set off a tide of displacement inside the divided city, with thousands of residents evacuating their prem- ises to safety in government and Kurdish-controlled areas of the city since Saturday. Associated Press Trump to fill more vacancies; recount distraction looms NEW YORK — With his return to New York, President-elect Donald Trump faces a pressing need to set more of the foundation blocks of his presidency in place by filling vacancies for secretary of state and other top posts. Distraction looms, however, much of it created by the pres- ident-elect himself, whose extraordinary claims of widespread voter fraud during a 12-hour Twitter offensive on Sunday cast a shadow over the legitimacy of an election that he actually won. “I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of peo- ple who voted illegally,” Trump tweeted in the afternoon before alleging in an evening tweet “serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California.” Trump’s transition team did not respond to questions seeking evidence of the claims. The charges come amid a recount of presidential votes in up to three battleground states, an effort joined by Hillary Clin- ton despite decidedly tamped-down expectations that the elec- tion’s outcome will not change. Wisconsin election officials are expected to meet Monday to discuss a possible timeline for a recount of that state’s presidential votes; recounts are possible in Pennsylvania and Michigan as well. Cuba bids farewell to Castro, nation’s ruler for half-century HAVANA — A nine-story portrait of a young Fidel Castro has joined the towering images of fallen guerrillas overlooking Hava- na’s Plaza of the Revolution, the massive square where Cuba on Monday begins bidding farewell to the man who ruled the island for nearly half a century. After 10 years of leadership by Castro’s younger brother Raul, a relatively camera-shy and low-key successor, Cuba finds itself riveted once again by the words and images of the leader who dominated the lives of generations. Since his death on Friday night, state-run newspapers, television and radio have been run- ning wall-to-wall tributes to Fidel, broadcasting nonstop footage of his speeches, interviews and foreign trips, interspersed with adulatory remembrances by prominent Cubans. “There’s a genuine feeling of mourning, that’s not a formal- ity, that’s not showy, that’s not outward-focused, but rather com- pletely intimate,” former National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon said on state television Sunday. Ordinary people have largely been staying at home, off streets hushed by a prohibition on music and celebration during the nine days of official mourning for Castro. For some, particularly younger Cubans, Castro’s death barely registered. Yankemell Barrera, a 20-year-old student, said Castro wasn’t a strong presence in his life and that he wasn’t much affected by his death or planning to go to any of the memorial events. He said studying for finals would be a better use of his time. Cuban-American millennials anticipate role in evolving Cuba MIAMI — Isabella Prio was born in Miami, is 20 now and a junior at Boston College who fully expects to return to Cuba someday and help shape the island’s future. But she’s never been to the country where her grandfather was once president and refuses to visit until it’s a democracy. Cherie Cancio, 29, also was born in Miami and runs tours to the island for young Cuban-Americans eager to explore their heritage. Two daughters of exile. Both passionate in wanting to affect change in a country that has been in the grasp of the Castro broth- ers’ authoritarian rule for decades, but very different in their approaches. For the hundreds of thousands of children like Prio and Cancio born of Cuban exiles — some two and three generations removed from the island — Fidel Castro’s death potentially opens a door to a world long off-limits. Or at the least, it seems to bring it within closer reach. Millennial Cuban-Americans say Castro’s death at the age of 90 symbolically offers hope for improved dialogue between the countries. Some thought the dialogue had begun under Presi- dent Barack Obama, who visited Cuba in March. But with Pres- ident-elect Donald Trump, the future of diplomacy between the two countries is uncertain. Dakota Access pipeline protesters told to leave by Dec. 5 BISMARCK, N.D. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has set an early December deadline for American Indians and others to leave an encampment in North Dakota where they’ve More than 4 million kids have been orphaned in Congo AP Photo/Greg Baker Cuban President Fidel Castro stands on the Great Wall of China in 1995. Castro died at age 90 on Friday. been entrenched for months protesting the Dakota Access pipe- line. Tribes including the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux are fighting the Dakota Access project because they fear it will harm drinking water and cultural sites. Texas-based pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners says the 1,200-mile pipeline through the Dakotas, Iowa and Illinois will be safe. The Corps said last week in a letter to Standing Rock Sioux tribal leader Dave Archambault that all federal lands north of the Cannonball River will be closed to public access Dec. 5 for “safety concerns.” The order includes the sprawling encampment called Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires camp, that’s a liv- ing protest against the four-state $3.8 billion pipeline. The Corps cited North Dakota’s oncoming winter and increas- ingly contentious clashes between protesters and police. The agency says “it has no plans for forcible removal,” but anyone on land north of the river after the deadline will be trespassing and may be prosecuted. With deals offered early, will shoppers buy on Cyber Monday? NEW YORK — Cyber Monday may be in danger of losing its online sales title. The Monday after Thanksgiving is traditionally the busiest online shopping day of the year, but stores are releasing internet deals earlier, stretching them through the week, as well as making them available in stores. Shoppers looking for discounts spurred online sales on Black Friday to a new high. During the holiday shopping weekend that kicks off on Thanksgiving and the day afterward known as Black Friday, more and more shoppers decide to skip the mayhem in stores and buy online. Consumers spent $3.34 billion shopping online on Friday, a 21.6 percent increase from the same day last year, according to Adobe Digital Insights, which tracks online retail transactions. Online sales have also been stretching out more and more. Cartwheel, Target’s digital app, started offering holiday deals including 50 percent off one toy per day on Nov. 1. Amazon started offering 35 days of Black Friday deals on Nov. 16. And Walmart kicked off its Cyber Monday deals at 12:01 a.m. EST Friday for the first time as it aimed to grab customers ahead of its competitors. Lea Bishop shops online starting on Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday, but this year found many retailers had extensive pre-Black Friday deals. She found an iPad at Bestbuy. com for $625, at $150 off during the week before Thanksgiving. To Bishop, the convenience of online shopping is worth more than finding the best deal. Syrian troops capture northern parts of rebel-held Aleppo BEIRUT — Syrian government forces and their allies cap- tured another major eastern Aleppo neighborhood and several smaller areas Monday, putting much of the northern part of Alep- po’s besieged rebel-held areas under government control for the first time in four years, state media reported. GOMA, Congo — More than 4 million children have lost at least one parent in Congo over the past two decades, the silent victims of continuous cycles of violence. And more than 26 million orphans live in West and Central Africa, where Congo is located — the second highest number in the world behind South Asia, according to the United Nations. These children have grown up amid conflict fueled by ethnic strife and the fight over valuable minerals. The violence and dis- placement are eroding the tradition of families caring for their own. The breakdown in family means some orphans are forced to look after themselves and their younger siblings. Some are vul- nerable to recruitment by armed groups. And many also face sex- ual exploitation, in a country where rape has become common- place on the streets. “They are the orphans with a story of violence since 1994 — it’s a generation of victims that continues,” says Francisca Ichim- paye, a senior monitor at the En Avant Les Enfants INUKA cen- ter. And the children “lose their story in the violence.” Iraq hospital brimming with Mosul civilian, army casualties IRBIL, Iraq — The main hospital treating trauma victims from the battle for Mosul is overflowing with civilian and mil- itary casualties, according to a doctor there. Dr. Marwan Ghafuri of the West Irbil Hospital, the main triage center for trauma cases from the Mosul battle, said his facility is admitting up to 150 new patients per day “The problem here is we have not enough beds in the emer- gency (room),” he said. “We have a lack of medications and the operating rooms are full. We cannot operate immediately on all the patients.” Ghafuri said he expects the influx of wounded to continue at the same level for the next three months as the Mosul operation continues. The offensive to free Mosul of Islamic State militants is now in its second month, and progress has slowed as troops try to avoid mass civilian casualties. The military officially bans report- ing on its numbers of killed and injured, although field medics have noted at least dozens of soldiers have died. Controversy in Russia over Holocaust ice dance MOSCOW — Tatiana Navka, a former Olympic ice dancer, and her on-ice partner have caused controversy by dressing up in concentration camp uniforms for a dance routine on a popu- lar television show. Navka, who is the wife of Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, and dancing partner Andrei Burkovsky appeared in Saturday’s episode of “Ice Age” dressed in striped uniforms bearing yellow six-pointed stars and heavily made-up to look bruised and frail. Their routine, which aired on state-owned Channel One, was based on “Life is Beautiful,” the Academy Award-winning Italian movie about a Jewish father who pretends for the sake of his small son that their internment in a Nazi camp is just a game. Navka’s Instagram account soon was flooded with indignant comments. 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