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Asian stock markets tumbled Friday, with South Korea down nearly 5%, as fears mounted over the fallout from Dubai's massive debt problems and the dollar continued its slide against the Japanese USA Todayhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96260209&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T07:10:00, 01:53 AM EST FRANKFURT, Nov 27 (Reuters) - The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on Friday: K+S The German potash miner trades ex-rights today after announcing late on Wednesday Forbes.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96563817&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T06:41:00JOHANNESBURG, Nov 27 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect South African markets on Friday. GLOBAL Reutershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96635180&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T07:04:00PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown held out the prospect on Friday that Zimbabwe could be re-admitted to the Commonwealth in 2011 if it pushes ahead with reforms. Zimbabwe withdrew Reuters UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96464489&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T07:29:00JOHANNESBURG, Nov 27 (Reuters) - South Africa's rand fell against the dollar on Friday as investors dumped high-risk trades for safer assets while stock futures pointed lower. Emerging markets have came Forbes.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96620014&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T05:29:00Namibians were set to begin Friday two days of voting in general elections expected to see the ruling South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) return to power, despite a tough challenge from a The Agehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96642919&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T08:15:00NAIROBI, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Kenyan commercial lending rates are unlikely to fall this year because banks wrongly perceive that loan default risk is still high, the central bank governor said on Friday. Forbes.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96587914&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T04:59:00* Gunmen in Equateur province fire on U.N. helicopter * Attack unrelated to rebel operations in the east KINSHASA, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Gunmen involved in violent ethnic clashes in remote northern Democratic Reuters UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96647371&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T09:15:00WINDHOEK, Namibia -- Namibia's longtime ruling party may see its grip on this desert nation weakened by a challenge from a new breakaway party hoping to attract voters dissatisfied with corruption and Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96645948&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T09:09:00WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibians went to the polls on Friday in a presidential and parliamentary vote likely to hand President Hifikepunye Pohamba five more years in power, but with a new opposition threatening Reuters Africahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96645123&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T08:55:00BRAZZAVILLE, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- An unknown epidemic caused three deaths and affected more than 100 people in the last few days in the Republic of Congo, the central African country's national laboratory Xinhua News Agencyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96644953&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T08:52:00WINDHOEK, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Namibians went to the polls on Friday in a presidential and parliamentary vote likely to hand President Hifikepunye Pohamba five more years in power, but with a new opposition Reuters Africahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96641453&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T08:06:00Reporting from Isiolo, Kenya - Have the climate wars of Africa begun? Tales of conflict emerging from this remote, arid region of Kenya have disturbing echoes of the lethal building blocks that turned Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96640797&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T07:53:00WINDHOEK, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Namibians voted on Friday in a presidential and national assembly election expected to see President Hifikepunye Pohamba reinstated, but with a new opposition threatening Reutershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96580103&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T01:02:00Nov 27 (Reuters) - Namibia President Hifikepunye Pohamba is expected to remain in office after this week's presidential and national assembly elections, but will face a strong challenge from a new official Reuters Africahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96498416&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T02:30:00MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Two foreign journalists freed after 15 months in captivity in Somalia arrived in neighboring Kenya yesterday. Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan flew out of the China Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96642931&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T08:39:00WINDHOEK, Namibia --Namibia's President Hifikepunye Pohamba was among the first to vote in an election expected to return him and his party to power, despite a challenge from a new breakaway party. His Boston Globehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96634462&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T06:44:00(Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Urgent: Namibians go to polls for presidential, parlarmentary elections WINDHOEK, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Namibians went to polls on Friday for the presidential and parliamentary elections.Investors Business Dailyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96611645&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T07:03:00Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba is expected to stay in power after this week's election, but a new official opposition party could emerge, threatening the ruling party's two-thirds majority. Namibia, Polity.org.zahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96514425&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T05:19:00Casablanca, Morocco Event Details For full details on this event and to register, please visit our . 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Live FoxSports 1 Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales) The Agehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96629211&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T06:43:00By Fiona Forde Tokyo Sexwale's visit to the Republic of Congo has brought to an end a weeks-old diplomatic spat over the Congolese president's semi-autobiographical book and the preface attributed to Sunday Independenthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96633399&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T06:44:00(Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) -- DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Zambia's state power utility Zambia Electricity Supply Corp., or Zesco, said Friday that two weeks of power rationing could ease next week, Investors Business Dailyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96625192&Channel_ID=65&Category_ID=2082009-11-27T04:56:00(BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) -- 26 November: Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad and his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade have discussed the ways to develop bilateral ties. 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