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| | The Berlin Wall 20 Years After the Fall |
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November 9, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event that precipitated the collapse of the communist-run Soviet Union and signaled the end of a division that had separated Europe for decades.
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One year after President Obama's historic election, Republicans took back two states run by Democrats. But fighting between conservatives and moderates may have lost a seat in the House.
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In the first expansion of a federal hate crimes law since 1968, President Barack Obama signed a bill Wednesday that extends hate crime protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
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| | Bosnian Serb Ex-President on Trial for Genocide |
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Scores of mothers whose children were killed during the Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995 traveled hundreds of miles to the war crimes trial of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic.
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The United Nations Climate Change Summit, to take place this December in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a major event in the worldwide effort to deal with the problem of global warming.
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| | U.S. Shifts Sudan Policy Towards Engagement |
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a new strategy for Sudan this week, shifting from isolation to greater engagement with the Sudanese government to end genocide and war in Darfur.
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| | Oldest Human Ancestor, New Link in Evolution Chain |
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Anthropologists have found a skeleton of a human-like creature that lived more than a million years before "Lucy," opening a window into how humans diverged from a common ancestor with chimpanzees.
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The potential dangers of swine flu are few compared to the real dangers facing the uninsured.
