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...NOV. 19: SOUTH KOREA...
Palestinians in the West Bank gathered Nov. 15 to mark their Independence Day (above), the anniversary of Yasser Arafat's largely symbolic declaration of statehood in 1988. Meanwhile, officials announced their intention to press the U.N. for recognition, citing frustration with stalled peace talks. But with the initiative likely to be rejected, the reality for Palestinians isn't improving. Two days later, Israel defied international demands for a freeze on settlement construction in disputed territory, approving 900 housing units in East Jerusalem...
State media announced Nov. 17 that five defendants in the mass trial of more than 100 accused dissidents were sentenced to death. It was unclear if that included the three capital-punishment sentences meted out last month. Eighty-one others in the case, which stems from demonstrations that followed June's contested presidential election, received prison terms ranging from six months to 15 years...
...Nov. 17, German authorities arrested a Rwandan militia leader, along with one of his aides, for allegedly orchestrating war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo from his perch in Europe. Prosecutors say that since 2001, Ignace Murwanashyaka has remotely commanded the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a paramilitary rebel group accused of killing hundreds of Congolese citizens this year. The organization is composed mainly of ethnic Hutu, some of whom are believed to be responsible for the massacre of more than 500,000 Rwandan Tutsi in 1994. The arrest of Murwanashyaka, who has lived in Germany...
...over the past two years, Americans have largely stopped spending more money than we had and running up credit-card tabs we couldn't pay off. To a great extent, we've been hectored into behaving more like our parsimonious Pilgrim forebears, whose expression of gratitude we celebrate Nov. 26. But the day after Thanksgiving is Black Friday, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, and it's in need of all the consumption it can get: conspicuous, ridiculous, tasteless or otherwise. It could take a Snuggie Christmas to keep the economy on the mend. Last holiday season, retailers...