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Last update: November 27, 2009 - 9:02 PM

WASHINGTON, D.C.

U.S. delays new ban on Internet gambling

The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling. The two agencies said that the new rules, which were to take effect Dec. 1, would be delayed until June 1.

FLORIDA

Gunman kills 4 after family dinner

A Miami man opened fire on his family after Thanksgiving dinner, killing his pregnant sister, 6-year-old cousin and two other relatives before speeding off and initiating a statewide manhunt, police said.

RUSSIA

Sabotage feared in train derailment

An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed, killing at least 22 people and injuring dozens of others, emergency officials said. Russian news agencies cited unidentified officials as saying a small crater was found at the site of the wreck, leading to speculation that the wreck could have been the result of sabotage, fueling fears of terrorism.

ISRAEL

Gaza strike preempted attack, military says The Israeli military said the air force attacked a group of Palestinian militants in northern Gaza as they were about to fire rockets at Israel, a week after the Hamas rulers of Gaza announced that they had secured the agreement of other groups to halt rocket fire in order to prevent retaliatory attacks.

UKRAINE

Statue of Lenin vandalized with paint

Ukrainian nationalists hurled red paint at a restored monument to Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin moments after it was unveiled in Kiev, sparking a street brawl and revealing the bitter divisions over the legacy of communism in Ukraine.

PHILIPPINES

Women were sexually mutilated in massacre

Most or all of the 22 women among the 57 people massacred Monday in the southern Philippines were sexually mutilated, authorities said, adding grim details to the catalog of horrors that has already emerged in the election violence.

SUDAN

Teen flogged for 'indecent' skirt A 16-year-old Christian girl from southern Sudan said she was lashed 50 times for wearing a skirt deemed indecent by authorities in the north who enforce a strict version of Islamic law. Silva Kashif said she was arrested by a plainclothes policeman in a Khartoum market last week for wearing a skirt just beneath the knee. She was convicted of offending public morality and received 50 lashes in the courtroom.

POLAND

Crackdown against Communist symbols

Poland's president has approved legislation that allows for people to be fined or even imprisoned for possessing or buying communist symbols, two decades after Communist rule ended. The new law says violators could be fined or imprisoned for up as long as years.

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