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Construction began 50 years ago. Learn how David Hasselhoff was instrumental in reuniting Germans after 28 years of the Berlin Wall. Turkey is not ruling out international intervention in Syria, if President Bashar Assads regime continues its military crackdown against civilians, a senior official in Ankara told Turkey-based Hurriyet paper on Saturday. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A group of unidentified armed men abducted an American citizen from his residence in the eastern city of Lahore, police officials said on Saturday. The New York Police Department has formed Facebook and Twitter units in order to track down and monitor criminals and criminal behavior on social media sites. August 12, 2011 Aiding Somali Herders a Factor in Fighting Famine Michael Onyiego | Dobley, Somalia With Somalias famine spreading, experts are looking at new strategies to address the crisis that go beyond simply feeding people. A Palestinian boy carted food aid he had received at a UN distribution center at the Shatie refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip last month. Fidel Castro, who still inspires leftist activists around the world, turns 85 as country gives Serenade to Fidelity. Cubas Fidel Castro has turned 85 years old amid celebrations for the revolutionary legend who led his country for nearly 50 years ... BENGHAZI, Libya—Rebel officials here, amid signs of disarray in their leadership, have ramped up preparations for governing Libya after the fall of Col. The June killing of 17-year-old Sarfraz Shah was caught on video and caused unprecedented anger after it was broadcast widely in Pakistan. The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton on the Grazia cover on 9 May (left) and the original image (right). Photograph: Grazia/Getty Images Grazia has admitted that it inadvertently slimmed down the waist of the Duchess of Cambridge by digitally ... KIEV - Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko suffered a fresh setback in her trial on a charge of abuse of power when a higher court refused to hear her appeal against police detention yesterday. ELIZABETH JACKSON: By almost every index that exists the Somali capital Mogadishu rates as the most dangerous place on earth. It is also in the grip of famine and every day scores of people are dying not from violence but from hunger caused by a ... In July 2002 a small group of Israeli and Palestinian economists sat down for a rare meeting in the idyllic French village of Aix-en-Provence. Leaders of a social protest movement in Israel say mass demonstrations will again be held on Saturday throughout the country to demand further reforms of the Israeli economic system. Ijaz Muhammad/AP Pakistani villagers carried the casket of a person reportedly killed by a US drone attack in a Pakistani tribal area, during his funeral in Bannu in 2010. AP / August 13, 2011 AMSTERDAM - A Dutch court sent two Somalis to jail for up to seven years yesterday for hijacking a South African yacht last year and seizing a South African couple who are still missing. By AP A court handed down prison terms on Friday for relatives of the former first lady of Tunisia for trying to flee illegally with jewels and cash as her husbands government collapsed. Norway has appointed nine people to an independent commission that will investigate the terrorist attacks that killed 77 people last month.
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