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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Morning Digest: Japan, S.Korean military planes defy China's new defense zone

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11/28/2013

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Japan, S.Korean military planes defy China's new defense zone

TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - Japanese and South Korean military aircraft flew through disputed air space over the East China Sea without informing China, officials said on Thursday, challenging a new Chinese air defense zone that has increased regional tensions and sparked concerns of an unintended clash..

Iran invites U.N. inspectors to nuclear-linked site on December 8

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has invited U.N. inspectors to visit its Arak heavy-water production plant on December 8, the first concrete step under a cooperation agreement to clarify concerns about Tehran's disputed nuclear program..

Exclusive: UBS shrinks corporate advisory team for rich in emerging markets

ZURICH/DUBAI (Reuters) - Swiss lender UBS is scaling back corporate advisory and investment banking services for ultra-rich clients in some key emerging market countries to reduce overlaps with other departments, three sources familiar with the plan said..

Actors Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore finalize divorce

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have finalized their divorce two years after separating, bringing official closure for one of Hollywood's most prominent couples..

Remorseful Braun apologizes to sample collector

(Reuters) - Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun says he has made amends with the specimen collector he blamed during a February 2012 news conference for what he described as a "fatally flawed" drug-testing protocol in Major League Baseball..

China's rumor crackdown has 'cleaned' Internet, official says

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's campaign against online rumors, which critics say is crushing free speech, has been highly successful in "cleaning" the Internet, a top official of the country's internet regulator said on Thursday..

Rare diplodocus dinosaur sells for $650,000 at British auction

LONDON (Reuters) - The skeleton of a diplodocus dinosaur that roamed what is now the United States some 160 million years ago was sold for 400,000 pounds ($651,100) to an unidentified public institution at an auction in Britain on Wednesday..

Turkeys avoid Thanksgiving fate with U.S. presidential pardon

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Taking a break from weighty matters of state and pitched battles with political foes, President Barack Obama exercised the lighter side of his authority Wednesday by sparing two magnificent turkeys the fate of becoming someone's Thanksgiving dinner..