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World in brief: November 26, 2023

UNITED STATES: Derek Chauvin, the police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, is expected to survive a stabbing attack he received on Friday, the Minnesota attorney-general’s office said at the weekend.
Details of the attack by another inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona, have been withheld. The prison has severe staffing shortages.

RUSSIA: The military said it had downed multiple Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow today, a day after Kiev reported the largest Russian drone bombardment since the start of the war, which reportedly wounded five people.
Ukraine said it had shot down the majority of 75 drones that struck the capital on Saturday and eight of nine more launched yesterday.

MEXICO: Three kidnapped journalists were freed at the weekend, authorities say.
Reporters Silvia Nayssa Arce and Alberto Sanchez and editor Marco Antonio Toledo were unharmed, the prosecutor’s office in Guerrero state said. Mr Toledo’s wife and son were also kidnapped: the wife has been freed but not the son, and police searches continue.
Mexico is among the most dangerous countries to be a journalist, with five killed so far this year.

 CLIMATE: An iceberg more than twice the size of Greater London is now drifting beyond Antarctic waters, according to the British Antarctic Survey.
Iceberg A23a split from the Antarctic's Filchner ice shelf in 1986 but became stuck to the ocean floor and had remained for many years in the Weddell Sea.
It has been drifting for the past year and is now picking up speed and moving past the northern tip of Antarctica, helped by wind and ocean currents.

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