By Mark Snowiss Washington 03 November 2009 The 20th anniversary of the 1989 East European revolutions has re-opened contentious debate over who won the Cold War and what caused Soviet communism to disintegrate so rapidly in its final years. The fal...
By Peter Fedynsky Budapest 03 November 2009 In this June 27, 1989 file picture, then Hungarian Foreign Minister Gyula Horn, right, with Austrian counterpart Alois Mock cut through barbed wire of former Iron Curtain marking border between East, West...
By Sonja Pace Berlin 03 November 2009 People standing on Berlin Wall preparing to destroy it For nearly three decades the Berlin Wall was the symbol of the Cold War; it divided a city and in effect the entire country. And then on November 9, 1989 it...
By Lisa Ferdinando Washington 03 November 2009 German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress in Washington D.C., 03 Nov 2009 German Chancellor Angela Merkel was afforded a rare honor Tuesday as she addressed a joint...
By Kent Klein White House 03 November 2009 German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in Washington to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by addressing a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress. Ms. Merkel met earlier with U.S. President Ba...
By Jeffrey Young Washington 03 November 2009 US diplomats held captive by Iranian militants November 4 is the 30th anniversary of the siezure, by young Iranian militants, of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Leading up to that event, the Ayatollah Ruholla...
By Jeff Swicord Washington 03 November 2009 For decades, AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) has been the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, bolstered by a massive membership -it says 100,000 - among America's six million Jews....
By Nathan King New York 03 November 2009 USS New York A U.S. warship built with steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center has arrived in New York. The USS New York stopped alongside Ground Zero to fire a 21-gun salute honoring those who died in...
By Ravi Khanna Washington 03 November 2009 President Barack Obama met last October 30 with his top military commanders to discuss U.S. strategy in Afghanistan as he considers whether to send thousands of more troops to the war torn country. Some ana...
By Paula Wolfson White House 03 November 2009 President Barack Obama hosts a climate summit at the White House, 03 Nov 2009 The United States and the European Union are launching a renewed push for an international climate deal. Prospects for such a...
By Elizabeth Arrott Cairo 03 November 2009 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is winding up her Middle East trip with a last minute stop in Cairo. While she is expected to seek help in ending the impasse between Israel and the Palestinians, Egy...
By Scott Stearns Marrakech, Morocco 03 November 2009 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers her speech at the opening of the World Policy Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, 03 Nov 2009 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Washington i...
By Scott Stearns Marrakech, Morocco 03 November 2009 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is trying to quiet Arab complaints about her praise for an Israeli offer to limit Jewish settlements on the West Bank. Palestinian leaders say the Israeli o...
By Luis Ramirez Berqin, West Bank 03 November 2009 As Israel's army removes more checkpoints in the occupied West Bank, many Palestinians are experiencing an economic boom. Some of that growth has come from the production of olives, a staple in the...
By Kate Thomas Dakar 03 November 2009 Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore has chaired the first day of mediation talks in Ouagadougou between Guinea's military junta and other political groups. Blaise Compaore, President of Burkina Faso (File)...
