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: Anticipation grows ahead of Berlin Wall anniversary

Anticipation grows ahead of Berlin Wall anniversary

Anticipation is growing in Berlin ahead of Monday’s 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall. At least 100,000 people are set to party around the Brandenburg Gate – Dmitry Medvedev, Gordon…

Health: US healthcare reform moves closerUS healthcare reform moves closer Accident: Andorran bridge collapse kills fiveAndorran bridge collapse kills five Military: Saudi army retakes border area from rebelsSaudi army retakes border area from rebels
President Barack Obama has won a big victory on US healthcare reform.    The vote was close — 220 to 215 — but the lower house of the US Congress…
Five workers are now known to have died in the collapse of a road bridge being built in Andorra. The construction site is to remain closed…
Saudi Arabia says it has seized back a border zone captured by Yemeni rebels in an incursion last week. The announcement by the Saudi…
  1. Abbas urged to run for re-election
  2. China boosts African aid
  3. Dalai Lama on controversial visit near Tibet
  4. Swiss Muslims open up mosques ahead of minaret vote
  5. Berlin border guard recalls the Wall’s fall
  6. Money ministers reject Brown’s bank tax at the G20

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: Mikhail Gorbachev, former USSR President :“Perestroika won, but politically I lost.”

Mikhail Gorbachev, former USSR President :“Perestroika won, but politically I lost.”

In 1986, the Soviet regime made the first breach in the Iron Curtain. Mikhail Gorbachev, the new Secretary General of the Communist Party, used the 27th Party Congress to annouce an ambitious…

: Interview with Walter Momper, former Mayor of West Berlin and BerlinInterview with Walter Momper, former Mayor of… : Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist leaderWojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist… : Jacques Delors: Former European Commission PresidentJacques Delors: Former European Commission…
Walter Momper was mayor of West Berlin when the Wall came down almost twenty years ago. In the autumn of 1989 city authorities had been preparing for…
Wojciech Jaruzelski was Poland’s last Communist leader. He is a controversial figure, because as Prime Minister he imposed martial law in 1981. He…
“The event was a shock, we had to wait and see if it was going to happen peacefully.” 20 years ago Jacques Delors, then President of the European…
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  3. Ali Larijani : “We build, we develop missiles as a force for deterence.”
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  6. Interview with Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer