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Fifty years to the day after the Berlin Wall was built overnight by East German officials, little of it remains. Some argue in favor of restoring portions of the hated structure as a memorial. A US citizen has been abducted from his home in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, US Embassy and police officials said today. The US is working with local authorities to secure the mans release, ... LONDON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Britain needs to tackle deep-seated social problems following riots and looting in English cities this week, the centre-right government said on Saturday, and a US street crime expert it has brought in said ... Singers and musicians gather to honour Fidel Castro with a birthday concert for the former Cuban leaders 85th birthday. Musicians and dancers from across Latin America paid tribute to the former Cuban leader and revolutionary with a concert held at ... Zintan, Libya (CNN) -- In all his years in power, Moammar Gadhafi has never been portrayed as anything but regal in paintings and statues scattered throughout Libya. 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. British police have charged a man with robbing a Malaysian student during riots in London in an incident that was watched by millions of people online, Scotland Yard said. August 13, 2011 Mass Economic Protests Continue in Israel VOA News 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. August 12, 2011 Frustration Mounts As Somalis Wait for Famine Relief Peter Heinlein | Mogadishu, Somalia Humanitarian groups in famine-hit Somalia say thousands are dying while deliveries of desperately needed aid from big international agencies may be ... The June killing of 17-year-old Sarfraz Shah was caught on video and caused unprecedented anger after it was broadcast widely in Pakistan. 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. 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 ... -These targeted drone strikes kill civilians in extraordinarily low numbers compared to any other combat operations in the history of mankind. A Ugandan soldier leads Richard Rouget, a military adviser with Bancroft Global Development, to the roof of a building to monitor a firefight. CAMPAIGNING for Norways local elections next month kicked off today with all parties making opening comments together as a sign of solidarity with the victims of last months deadly twin attacks. A train packed with passengers derailed in central Poland on Friday as it was traveling from Warsaw to Katowice, killing four passengers and injuring dozens of others. A Dutch court has sentenced two Somali pirates who hijacked a South African yacht last November to up to seven years in jail. The men were convicted of seizing the boat off Tanzania and abducting a South African couple, who remain missing. MOSCOW, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russia hopes that Israel will reconsider its plans for building some 1600 houses in east Jerusalem, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Friday. 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.
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