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Syria China Australia Alaska New Orleans, Louisiana and Atlanta, Georgia CARL AZUZ, HOST: Hi, I`m Carl Azuz. And today we`re going to one-up Phineas Fogg. Instead of 80 days, we`re going around the world in 80 seconds for some global headlines at the start of today`s show. Our first stop is in Syria, where a civil war is driving hundreds of thousands of people out of the country. According to es..

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Syria Newtown, Connecticut CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: Fridays are awesome. First one of 2013, and CNN STUDENT NEWS is covering everything from international affairs to civics to technology. Welcome. Thank you for watching. The new year hasn`t seen any new let-ups in the fighting in Syria. The Middle Eastern country`s been ripped apart by a civil war. It started in March of 2011, with the government ..

CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: At the edge of the fiscal cliff - U.S. government didn`t go over the edge, but it didn`t exactly solve the crisis either. First up on CNN STUDENT NEWS today is how Congress and the president sort of backed away from the edge. It came down to a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday night, the Senate had already passed a temporary fix to the fiscal cliff, but ..

CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: Well, of course, we wish you a very happy new year and a very warm welcome as we kick off 2013 on CNN STUDENT NEWS. My name is Carl Azuz. We are glad you`re joining us. We hope your year is off to a good start. One question we had going in to the break was, will Congress and President Obama find a way to avoid the fiscal cliff? When we put this show together last night, we..

You`ve heard us talk a lot about the fiscal cliff, it`s a serious of automatic government spending cuts and tax increases that`s scheduled to take place at the beginning of the year. Now, President Obama and Congress can avoid this cliff by coming up with a compromise, a plan to lower the country`s debt. The president and Republican leaders have both offered some proposals on how to do this, but..

From Northern Africa, we are going to head east to South Korea, for a story about that country`s next leader. South Koreans voted in their nation`s presidential election yesterday. The winner won`t officially take office until February. When that happens, it`ll come with a bit of history. This is Park Geun-hye. She is said to be the next South Korean president, she`ll be the first woman ever to ..

AZUZ: That`s why the debate over taxes, who gets taxed and by how much is so important to the U.S. Government`s debate over the upcoming fiscal cliff. It`s a series of tax increases in government`s spending cuts that will automatically happen in January. A lot of experts agree it would be a bad thing for the U.S. Economy, and it can only be avoided if Congress and the president can agree on anot..

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We have endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years, and each time I learn the news, I react not as a president, but as anybody else would, as a parent. And that was especially true today. CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: President Obama speaking last Friday about a shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. We`re going to ..

It`s Friday, I`m Carl, and this is CNN STUDENT NEWS. Senkaku and Diaoyu -- two different names for the same set of islands at the center of some tension between China and Japan. You can see those two countries on this map. And right in between them, that`s where you`ll find these islands in the East China Sea. There`s not much to them. They`re rocky. They`re not near much else. No one lives ther..