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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Nov. 29

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OSLO -- Police have investigated 151 sexual assault cases in one municipality in northern Norway and issued ten charges, public broadcaster NRK reported Tuesday.

Out of the 151 cases in Tysfjord municipality in the northern county of Nordland, 43 cases included rape, while 40 cases dealt with sexual intercourse with children under 14 years of age.(Norway-Sexual Assult)

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SEOUL -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired a ballistic missile into its east waters early Wednesday, South Korea's military said.

The "an unidentified ballistic missile" was launched from a site near Pyongsong in South Pyongan Province, at around 3:17 a.m. local time, the Yonhap News Agency cited South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) as saying.(S. Korea-DPRK-Missile)

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WASHINGTON -- Two 15-year-old boys have been arrested in connection with the Black Friday night shooting that killed a 12-year-old boy while injuring five others in Cleveland, a major city in the midwestern U.S. state of Ohio, local police said Tuesday.

U.S. Marshals and Cleveland police arrested one teenager at a high school on Monday and the second at his mother's home Tuesday morning, police said.(U.S.-Shooting)

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LAMU, Kenya -- Somali militant group Al-Shabaab on Tuesday killed two police officers and injured two others in Kenya's coastal town of Lamu in its latest attack in the tourism resort region.

Coast Regional Police Commander Larry Kieng said the officers were escorting a convoy of six buses when they were ambushed along the Malindi Lamu highway.(Kenya-Security)

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CAIRO -- At least 14 terrorists were killed and 14 other suspects were arrested in Egyptian police and military raids inside and near North Sinai province, official security statements said on Tuesday.

A statement from the Interior Ministry on Tuesday said that a raid on a farm in Ismailia province northeastern the capital Cairo and western North Sinai province killed 11 terrorists who exchanged fire with the police during the raid.(Egypt-Raids) Enditem

 

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