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		<title>World Links: Europe&#8217;s Last Communists Lose Election, Bomb Kills Two in Spain</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/blog/world-links-europes-last-communists-lose-election-bomb-kills-two-in-spain/5332/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bomb kills two policemen on the Spanish island of Majorca in what authorities believe is the second attack by the Basque separatist group ETA in the past two days.

Nigerian forces storm the headquarters of the Islamic militant group Boko Haram killing 100 people, including the group's deputy leader.

The last ruling Communist Party in Europe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crossing Heaven&#8217;s Border: Video: Full Episode</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past decade, up to 100,000 defectors have crossed the waters of the Tumen and Yalu Rivers into northeast China to escape from North Korea, the world’s last closed Communist state. In Crossing Heaven’s Border, WIDE ANGLE tells the moving and dramatic stories of a few of them.

Please view the original post to see the video.]]></description>
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		<title>Crossing Heaven&#8217;s Border: Video: Refugee Escape Stories from Around the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every refugee has a story. Fleeing wars, repressive governments, ethnic and religious persecution, they make often epic journeys, risking their lives to start anew. Last year alone, nearly 14 million people from around the world became refugees. More than 60,000 settled in the United States.

Below are the stories of nine refugees. They've fled the war [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Police Prevent Commemorations in Tiananmen Square, Opposition Accuses Iranian President of Tainting Country&#8217;s Image</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama calls for "a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world" in a long-awaited speech to the Muslim world delivered at Cairo University in Egypt. Reactions from leaders in the Muslim world are largely positive, with many calling the speech a good start, but awaiting action from the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking “The Tall Test”: Chinese Prep School: Lesson Overview</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 20:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eva glaser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funding for the educational materials was provided by The Overbrook Foundation.

For a printer-friendly version of this lesson click here: (PDF) (RTF)

GRADE LEVEL: 9-12

TIME ALLOTMENT: Two to three 45-minute class periods

OVERVIEW

In this lesson, students will examine the culture of a Chinese prep school as its graduating class studies for the national college entrance exam—the Gaokao. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking “The Tall Test”: Chinese Prep School: Video Segments</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 20:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eva glaser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funding for the educational materials was provided by The Overbrook Foundation.

This full video of Wide Angle's China Prep can be used alone or with the accompanying lesson, Taking “The Tall Test”: Chinese Prep   School (Grades  9-12). Time codes for selected clips may be found in the lesson plan. The video can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Protests in Thailand, Moldova; Fujimori Sentenced in Peru</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/blog/world-links-protests-in-thailand-moldova-fujimori-sentenced-in-peru/4557/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A container ship with 20 American crew members on board is seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia.

Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in jail after being found guilty of crimes against humanity committed during the 1990s "dirty war" against the Shining Path Maoist guerrillas.

About 60,000 protesters rally against the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Field Trip to the DMZ: Slideshow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[North and South Korea share a language and a peninsula, but in the 60 years that they’ve been divided, they’ve become two very different countries. While capitalist South Korea has become an industrial powerhouse and a leader of the digital revolution, communist North Korea remains an isolated, largely agrarian society. This slideshow compares daily life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Approves Rural Land Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest milestone of China’s embrace of a market economy, the Communist Party announced a much-anticipated land reform plan this past Sunday.  Under the current system, all rural land is communally owned by village collectives controlled by local Communist Party officials, and plots are parceled out to farmers through 30-year land-use contracts.  With the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beslan: Seige of School #1: Essay:  &#8220;Prisoners of the Caucasus&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

by David Remnick

Reprinted from the September 2004 issue of THE NEW YORKER

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. In the post-Soviet period, Russian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A State of Mind: North Korea and the Korean War: June 1950 UN Responds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. (President Harry Truman decided that, as a "bandit incursion," the war was not a matter for Congress.) Boycotted by the Soviet Union, the Council passed a resolution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A State of Mind: North Korea and the Korean War: 1945-1949 Background</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[





Kim Il Sung holds a pre-war press conference.
Photo: Kimsoft.com



North Korea's roots lie deep in Korean history.

For years, Korea had contained one of Asia's most active set of communist groups and activists. Leftist activists had gone to Manchuria to fight the Japanese and to China to fight with Mao Zedong against Chiang Kaishek. During Japan's 35-year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A State of Mind: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[





More than 1 million "volunteers" pack into downtown Pyongyang in January 2003 to support North Korea's withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Photo: AP Photo/Xinhua



What's life really like inside North Korea?

Explore life inside what North Koreans call "Kim Il Sung nation" with our photo essay and see how the past influences the present in our timeline [...]]]></description>
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