Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Dec. 2
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LONDON -- The British bank RBS bailed out by the government at the height of the financial crisis is close hundreds of branches across the country.
The troubled bank, which is still 71 percent owned by the British government, is expected to close more than 250 branches, and to lose at least 680 jobs. (UK-Bank)
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BERLIN -- A package found at a Christmas market in the German city of Potsdam has been confirmed as a nail bomb, local police said.
The package contained a "cylindrical object with cables, batteries and nails", but police tweeted that "currently" no detonator had been found.
The police said earlier on Twitter that "the suspicion of an improvised explosive device has been confirmed". (German-Christmas Market-Nail Bomb)
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CARACAS -- Representatives of the Venezuelan government and opposition parties arrived in the Dominican Republic on Friday for two days of dialogue to resolve the country's political crisis.
Venezuelan Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez, who heads the government delegation, said: "We have come with an already established and agreed on agenda." (Venezuela-Political Crisis)
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JAKARTA -- At least 20 were killed and five others are still missing as landslides and floods struck Indonesia's East Java province, a government official from the disaster agency said on Saturday.
The landslides and floods were triggered by a cyclone from the Indian Ocean which also swept other provinces.
The number of people who are force to leave their homes increased to 2,050 on Saturday from 1,879 a day earlier as the natural disasters in Pacitan district of East Java province devastated 1,709 houses, spokesman of the national disaster management agency Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.
(Indonesia-Landslide)
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MANILA -- The Philippines has been hit by a bird flu outbreak in November, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol said on Saturday.
Pinol said poultry farmers discovered the new outbreak on Nov. 12 in Cabaio town in Nueva Ecija province north of Manila. However, he added that the outbreak was "successfully contained" by the town and agriculture officials who acted swiftly to control its spread. (Philippines-Avian Flu)
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