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China pushes peaceful military
China stresses its peaceful intentions as modernising air force celebrates 60 years.
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Pakistan shows anti-Taliban mission(2)
Footage released by Pakistani services Public Relations shows its military engaged in combat against a Taliban insurgent base in South Warziristan.
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Obama half-brother talks of abuse(2)
The half-brother of U.S. president Barack Obama makes a rare appearance in southern China -- his home for the past seven years -- to launch a novel he says draws on his painful childhood under an abusive father.
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Israel: arms shipment a "war crime"(2)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the seizure of an alleged arms shipment to Hezbollah proves Israel's enemies are guilty of war crimes.
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Insider trading probe widens(2)
14 people are charged with fraud and conspiracy, as an investigation into insider trading in America's hedge fund community, deepens.
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Swine flu hits remote Amazon tribe
An isolated Amazon Indian tribe who have little resistance to introduced disease have been struck down by swine flu.
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Italians cross about crucifix ban
Catholics in Italy are up in arms after a European Court ruled that crucifixes should be removed from the country's classrooms.
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China-Africa trade, ties grow
Chinese President Wen Jiabao is expected to offer Africa at least $5 billion in credit and loans at an upcoming summit.
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Obama one year after election
One year after his historic victory --- President Barack Obama is receiving mixed reviews for his handling of both domestic and foreign policy issues.
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Afghanistan by the numbers
As President Obama continues to weigh options in Afghanistan, US officials say the biggest question is how many more troops and trainers the President will deploy
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U.S. talks to Myanmar's Suu Kyi
A top U.S. official has held rare talks with Myanmar's detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, as part of a high-level visit to the isolated country.
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Africans in China look for success
A news anchorwoman and a nightclub DJ join other young Africans finding success in China.
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Disney wins Shanghai park nod
Shanghai residents excited about the prospect of Disneyland in their city.
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Water use stirs passions in Bolivia
Turmoil brews in Bolivia as a group of Quechua Indians demand to be paid for water that runs off their land but is the main water source of the impoverished country's fourth-largest city.
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Merkel presses U.S. on climate
German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress and urged the U.S. to take bold action to combat global warming.
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French seek their national identity
France has begun a massive national consultation programme to establish what it is that makes the French so French.
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Czech President seals EU treaty
With his grudging signature, Czech President Vaclav Klaus became the final leader to sign the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, sealing major changes in how the EU governs itself.
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Afghan President to tackle corruption
The re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai vows to root out corruption following stern warnings from Western supporters on the issue.
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Money to welcome you to the West
East Germans remember how they spent their 100 Deutschmarks "welcome money" after arriving in the West after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Friendship found over Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall brought together two policemen who had worked on the different sides of the wall.
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'Ostalgia' sweeps Germany
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall "ostalgia" or nostalgia for the East has led to a surge in popularity for East German products.
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Where is the Berlin Wall now?
20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, sections of the Iron Curtain can be found around the world where they remind people of division and reunification.
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Remembering the end of the Stasi
Remembering the end of the Stasi
January 1990.
The Berlin Wall has fallen.
But these demonstrators say it is a scandal that East Germany's
hated secret police - the Stasi - is still at work at its
h
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China minting super-rich
China minting super-rich
China's super-rich are bouncing back from the global financial
crisis with a vengeance.
According to this year's Hurun Report, known as China's rich
list, the country now is home to 130
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East Germany's peaceful revolution
East Germany's peaceful revolution
A Monday night in East Germany in October 1989.
Thousands demonstrate peacefully against the Communist regime on
the streets of Leipzig.
Twenty years a
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Afghanistan's Jewish past
Decades old Jewish synagogues in Western Afghanistan have been renovated and are being used as much needed schools in the war torn nation.
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Messiahs! Rulers and the Role of Religion Promo
Messiahs! Rulers and the Role of Religion explores history's ever-recurring rise of despotic rulers and examines how they portrayed themselves as gods in their quest for domination. This series looks at emperors and kings, tyrants and despots who succumbed to megalomania.
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Video Promo for Mortally Wounded? Global Finance and Banking in Crisis
Those in the financial press have often portrayed the contagion now devouring financial institutions worldwide as a new, more virulent strain. But a closer look reveals that humanity has been here before. And we'll be here again, unless we start taking a fundamentally different approach.
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Mortally Wounded? Global Finance and Banking in Crisis
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Peace Building
Uri Savir's new model for "peace building," as opposed to "peacemaking," is foreshadowed in this 1999 video featuring excerpts from three key players in the Mideast peace process: Uri Savir, Shimon Peres and Abu Ala (Ahmed Qurei). Savir, who was Israeli chief negotiator for the Oslo Accords, has long had a passion for peace in the Middle East. His new book, Peace First (2008) features a foreword by Peres, who was the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs during the Oslo negotiations, and an afterword by Qurei, who was the Palestinian chief negotiator.