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UPDATE - Dec. 10, 2009
Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland and President Obama. Photo: AFP/Getty ImagesPresident Barack Obama accepted the Nobel peace prize Thursday in Norway, saying compared to past recipients "my accomplishments are slight," and acknowledging he leads a nation in the middle of two wars.
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ANALYSIS - Dec. 9, 2009
Mumbai's Taj Hotel in November 2008. Photo: Associated PressA Chicago man with ties to Pakistani high society was arraigned in federal court Wednesday for his alleged role in plotting last year's terror strike in Mumbai. Jim Lehrer talks to a reporter for an update.
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ANALYSIS - Dec. 8, 2009
U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Photo Credit: AFP/Getty ImagesTwo top U.S. officials in Afghanistan told lawmakers Tuesday they support President Obama's revamped war plan, despite skepticism from some lawmakers. Republican Mike Pence of Indiana and Democrat James McGovern of Massachusetts describe their views to Jim Lehrer.
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Site of one of the Baghdad blasts. Photo Credit: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty ImagesA series of five bombs rocked Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 127 people, and raising new questions about the ability of Iraqi forces to secure their country.
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NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW - Dec. 7, 2009
Adm. Mike Mullen with Jim LehrerIn an interview with Jim Lehrer, Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen discusses President Obama's plan to send an additional 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan and a timetable for U.S. withdrawal.
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NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW - Dec. 4, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Photo Credit: AFP/Getty ImagesSecretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to Margaret Warner about the surge in Afghanistan, NATO's help with the war and securing a withdrawal date for U.S. forces.
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Gregor MacLennan helps indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon map their land to better inform the government when it decides where oil and logging companies can go. He describes how it all works.
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Baruani Ndume received the 2009 children's peace prize for his radio show that highlights life in a Tanzanian refugee camp, where he lives after fleeing violence in his native country, the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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FOR STUDENTS - Oct. 23, 2009
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, which scientists say is accelerated by human activity.
 
 
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Spain's Northern Coast Pioneers Wave Energy
A new state-of-the-art wave energy platform is being built along the northern coast of Spain in Arminza, but residents have mixed feeling about it.
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Bhopal Disaster: 25 Years Later
On the night of Dec. 3, 1984, a deadly gas leak at a pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, poisoned nearly 500,000 people. The World's Rhitu Chatterjee reports from India 25 years after the disaster.
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