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  1. NATO-led ISAF says one service member from Denmark was killed when he encountered an IED in southern Afghanistan yesterday.
  2. China to cut carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by up to 45% by 2020 from 2005 levels.
  3. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will attend the climate change summit.
  4. CNN reports top suspect in Philippine political massacre is in custody.
  5. CTV Television: Canadian journalist kidnapped and held for a year in Somalia says she was beaten and tortured.
  6. President Obama says he and his wife were "deeply saddened" to hear about the passing of Abe Pollin.
  7. Reuters: Two freelance journalists kidnapped in Somalia in August 2008 have been released.
  8. White House confirms Obama to attend Copenhagen talks; sets U.S. emission target. Full story: http://news.bnonews.com/nix2
  9. Reuters: White House says it will be out of Afghanistan within nine years.
  10. White House spokesman Gibbs says President Obama will meet members of Congress on Tuesday to discuss Afghanistan decision.
  11. Bundesstrafgericht Bellinzona says Roman Polanski has been granted bail.
  12. White House spokesman: President Obama to address the nation on Tuesday at 8 p.m. EST to discuss Afghanistan strategy, troops decision.
  13. President Obama will promise at the Copenhagen summit to reduce U.S. greenhouse gases by around 17%, sources tell the LA Times.
  14. New U.S. home sales in October increased 6.2% from September and rose 5.1% from October 2008, to 430,000.
  15. Initial claims for U.S. unemployment insurance fell by 35,000 to 466,000 in the week ending November 21; lowest level in a year.
  16. New orders for U.S. manufactured durable goods in October decreased 0.6% to $166.2 billion.
  17. The UK still in recession as 3Q GDP is revised to -0.3% quarter on quarter.
  18. The death toll in one of the Philippines' worst cases of election violence rose to at least 57 people.
  19. Iraqi Security Forces arrested 18 suspected al-Qaeda associates while conducting a series of joint security operations throughout Mosul.
  20. Ericsson to acquire certain assets of the Carrier Networks division of Nortel relating to Nortel's GSM business in the US and Canada.