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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.
Navka and Burkovsky told Russian media on Sunday that it
was their way of paying homage to Holocaust victims.
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KATU News at 6
Jeopardy!
Wheel of Fortune CMA Country Christmas Join in a celebration of the holiday season. (N)
Conviction
KATU News at 11 (:35) Jimmy Kimmel
KOMO 4 News
Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy!
CMA Country Christmas Join in a celebration of the holiday season. (N)
Conviction
KOMO 4 News
(:35) Jimmy Kimmel
NBC Nightly News KING 5 News
KING 5 News
Evening
The Voice "Live Top 10 Performances" (N)
Timeless "Space Race" (N)
KING 5 News
(:35) Tonight Show
KOIN 6 News at 6 CBS Evening News Extra
Ent. Tonight
Kevin Can Wait
Man With a Plan 2 Broke Girls
The Odd Couple
Scorpion "The Old College Try"
KOIN 6 News @ 11 (:35) S. Colbert
KIRO 7 News
CBS Evening News The Insider
Ent. Tonight
Kevin Can Wait
Man With a Plan 2 Broke Girls
The Odd Couple
Scorpion "The Old College Try"
KIRO News
(:35) S. Colbert
KGW News at 6:00 p.m.
Live at Seven
Inside Edition
The Voice "Live Top 10 Performances" (N)
Timeless "Space Race" (N)
KGW News at 11 (:35) Tonight Show
Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Modern Family
Modern Family
Supergirl "Medusa" (N)
Jane the Virgin "Chapter Fifty-One" (N) KGW News at 10 Two and a Half
Two and a Half
Met Your Mother
This Old House
Business (N)
PBS NewsHour
Age Reversed With Miranda Esmonde-White
This Land Everyone's favorite folk song is brought to life.
Ken Burns: The Civil War
6 O'Clock News
Family Feud
Family Feud
Gotham (N)
Lucifer "Quid Pro Ho" (N)
10 O'Clock News
11 O'Clock News 2 Broke Girls
Mike & Molly
Mike & Molly
Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory FOX 12's 8 O'Clock News on PDX-TV FOX 12's 9 O'Clock News on PDX-TV The Simpsons
Family Guy
American Dad
Cleveland Show
Modern Family
Modern Family
Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Gotham (N)
Lucifer "Quid Pro Ho" (N)
Q13 News at 10
Q13 News
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
American Dad (N) People of Earth (N) Family Guy
Family Guy
Full Frontal
Conan (N)
Two and a Half
Two and a Half
Last Man Standng Last Man Standng Modern Family
Modern Family
Q13 News at 9
Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Friends
Friends
(5:15) NFL Football Green Bay Packers at Philadelphia Eagles (L)
(:20) SportsCenter The day's news in the world of sports.
NFL PrimeTime
SportsCenter
30 for 30 "Phi Slama Jama"
30 for 30 Shorts E:60 Profile "The Brothers Bennett"
30 for 30 "Rand University"
SportsCenter
Nación ESPN
Henry Danger
The Thundermans NickyRickyDicky Game Shakers
School of Rock
iCarly
Full House
Full House
Full House
Full House
Friends
Friends
(:45) Girl Meets W. (:10) K.C. Underc.
(:35) Bizaardvark
The Lodge
Stuck in Middle
Liv and Maddie
Austin & Ally
(:05) Cali Style
K.C. Undercover How to Build a Better Boy ('14) Marshall Williams.
(5:30) Fred Claus ('07, Com) Vince Vaughn, Miranda Richardson, Paul Giamatti. The Holiday (2006, Romance) Kate Winslet, Jack Black, Cameron Diaz.
The 700 Club
(5:50) Megamind (2010, Animated) Jonah Hill, Will Ferrell. (:40) FXM Presents The Watch (2012, Comedy) Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller. (:55) FXM Presents Enough Said ('13) James Gandolfini, Julia Louis-Dreyfus. (:55) FXM Presents
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Bully A look at bullying and its impact on youth.
(4:30) DFL Soccer
Halls of Fame
NCAA Football
UFC 188 Heavyweights Velasquez and Werdum fight.
(5:00) UFC 191
Fox Sports Live
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Speak for Yourself
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America: The Story of the U.S.
America: The Story of the U.S.
American Pickers
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Mars "Novo Mundo"
Mars "Grounded"
Mars "Pressure Drop"
Explorer
StarTalk "Buzz Aldrin"
The Departed (2006, Thriller) Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio.
(5:00) U.S. Marshals ('98) Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes.
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Liar Liar ('97, Com)
Jumanji (1995, Fantasy) Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Robin Williams.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992, Comedy) Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Macaulay Culkin.
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NCIS "Canary"
NCIS "Under the Radar"
WWE Monday Night Raw
Chopped "Chopped: Impossible, Part 3" Chopped
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Grown Ups 2 (2013, Comedy) Kevin James, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler.
Grown Ups 2 (2013, Comedy) Kevin James, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler.
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN Tonight With Don Lemon
CNN Tonight With Don Lemon
Anderson Cooper 360
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN Tonight With Don Lemon
The Kelly File With Megyn Kelly
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The O'Reilly Factor
The Kelly File With Megyn Kelly
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On the Record
Shark Tank
Shark Tank
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The Profit "Los Gemelos"
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Grey Gardens ('75) Edie Bouvier Beale, Jack Helmuth, Edith Bouvier Beale. Crumb (1994, Biography)
(:15) Bombay Beach
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Adventure) Karen Allen, Denholm Elliott, Harrison Ford.
(5:00) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Harrison Ford.
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Horse Master
Inside Reining
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