A roundup of links to local stories of global importance from around the world.
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World Links: Europe’s Last Communists Lose Election, Bomb Kills Two in Spain
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Crossing Heaven’s Border: Video: Full Episode
Watch the full episode of Crossing Heaven's Border, and travel with North Korean defectors who make the life-threatening journey to freedom in South Korea.
Jul 2nd, 2009 | 30 comments | 13,734 Views
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Crossing Heaven’s Border: Video: Refugee Escape Stories from Around the World
Every refugee has a story. Here are nine of them, from Iraq, Tibet, Burma, Cuba, Congo and Rwanda.
Jul 1st, 2009 | 0 comments | 3,216 Views
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World Links: Police Prevent Commemorations in Tiananmen Square, Opposition Accuses Iranian President of Tainting Country’s Image
A roundup of links to local stories of global importance from around the world.
Jun 4th, 2009 | 0 comments | 855 Views
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World Links: Protests in Thailand, Moldova; Fujimori Sentenced in Peru
A roundup of links to local stories of global importance from around the world.
Apr 8th, 2009 | 0 comments | 1,163 Views
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Field Trip to the DMZ: Slideshow
North and South Korea share a language and a peninsula, but they're two very different countries. This slideshow compares daily life in the two countries.
Apr 6th, 2009 | 0 comments | 2,041 Views
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China Approves Rural Land Reform
Though stopping short of outright privatization, the reform will allow farmers, who make up more than 55% of China’s total population, to subcontract, lease and transfer land-use rights.
Oct 23rd, 2008 | 0 comments | 1,630 Views
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Beslan: Seige of School #1: Essay: “Prisoners of the Caucasus”
In Russia, the tragic sense is not limited to Chekhovian intellectuals or tyranny's victims. Even the privileged few, insulated by high office and a pride of bodyguards, know the truth when they care to look out a Kremlin window.
Jul 12th, 2005 | 0 comments | 5,965 Views
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A State of Mind: North Korea and the Korean War: June 1950 UN Responds
Two days after the war in Korea began, the U.S., worried that it would "lose" Korea like China to communists, took the matter to the UN Security Council.
Sep 11th, 2003 | 1 comment | 3,234 Views
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North Korea's roots lie deep in Korean history.
Sep 11th, 2003 | 0 comments | 3,705 Views
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A State of Mind: Introduction
(September 11, 2003) This documentary tells the story of two teenage girls and their families as the girls prepare to participate in North Korea's Mass Games, an intricately choreographed display celebrating North Korea's statehood and revolutionary zeal in one of the last surviving Communist showcase pageants.
Sep 11th, 2003 | 0 comments | 12,928 Views
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