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• 7. TOUGH TIMES PUT SQUEEZE ON FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE
• A main challenge at the U.N. climate conference that's just begun in Qatar is raising money for poor countries when budgets are strained.
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• 8. FROM THE BOUNCE HOUSE TO A HOSPITAL
• A study suggests 30 American children a day are treated in emergency rooms for broken bones, sprains, cuts and concussions from bounce house accidents.
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• 9. ROLLING STONES JAM ON 50TH ANNIVERSARY
• He still might not get satisfaction, but frontman Mick Jagger was in top vocal form at a London concert, AP's Gregory P. Katz reports.
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• 10. WHAT THE '12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS' GIFTS COST TODAY
• The price of turtle doves and maids-a-milking are the same as last year but it'll cost your true love more for pipers piping and drummers drumming.
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AP News in Brief
Bangladesh garment workers hold protests, block streets, a day after a fire killed 112
• DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Thousands of Bangladeshi workers blocked the streets of a Dhaka suburb Monday, throwing stones at factories and smashing vehicles, as they demanded justice for 112 people killed in a garment-factory fire that highlighted unsafe conditions in an industry rushing to produce for major retailers around the world.
• Some 200 factories were closed for the day after the protest erupted in Savar, the industrial zone where Saturday's deadly fire occurred. Protesters blocked a major highway.
• The government announced that Tuesday will be a day of national mourning, with the national flag flying at half-mast in honor of the dead.
• Investigators suspect that a short circuit caused the fire, said Maj. Mohammad Mahbub, fire department operations director. But he said it was not the fire itself but the lack of safety measures in the eight-story building that made it so deadly.
• "Had there been at least one emergency exit through outside the factory, the casualties would have been much lower," Mahbub said. He said firefighters recov (Continued on page 17)
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