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Washington Post World Desk On this day in 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel. Read more: http://bit.ly/CAZAt
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TARUNA JAYA, INDONESIA -- Across a patch of pineapples shrouded in smoke, Idris Hadrianyani battled a menace that has left his family sleepless and sick -- and has wrought as much damage on the planet as has exhaust from all the cars and trucks in the United States. Against the advancing flames, ...
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Allegation, if proved true, would mark one of the most brazen
examples of corruption yet disclosed in Afghanistan.
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KABUL -- The Afghan minister of mines accepted a roughly $30 million bribe to award the country's largest development project to a Chinese mining firm, according to a U.S. official who is familiar with military intelligence reports.
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SARAROGHA, Pakistan-- A toy car booby-trapped with explosives, Arabic-language chemistry and electronics texts and hand-written case notes from a Taliban courtroom were among the debris left behind by fleeing Islamic militants in this remote village in the conflicted tribal region of South Waziri...
Washington Post World Desk Your Take: What should Obama communicate to the Chinese people? http://bit.ly/C91px
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The portrait of the alleged Fort Hood shooter offered by Aulaqi
provides some hints as to Hasan's mind-set and motivations in the
months leading up to the Nov. 5 rampage, in which 13 were killed.
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SANAA, YEMEN -- In his first interview with a journalist since the Fort Hood rampage, Yemeni American cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi said that he neither ordered nor pressured Maj. Nidal M. Hasan to harm Americans, but that he considered himself a confidant of the Army psychiatrist who was given a glimp...
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Early next year, some 75 orangutans will relocate from a wildlife sanctuary to a remote forest in Central Kalimantan, an Indonesian province on the island of Borneo. After years of living with assistance from humans, can they survive?
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In 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left the western Chinese city of Urumqi with a highly unusual cargo: enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs, according to accounts written by the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and provided to The Washington Post.
Washington Post World Desk Explore an interactive timeline of U.S.-China relations, from 1972 to the present: http://bit.ly/23WXvJ
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When President Obama arrives in Shanghai and Beijing next week, he will face a prickly question that has vexed presidents since Richard M. Nixon first visited Mao Zedong in 1972: How exactly does the United States define its relationship with China?
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One day in late summer 2008, FBI and Secret Service agents flew to Chicago to inform Barack Obama's campaign team that its computer system had been hacked. "You've got a problem. Somebody's trying ...
Washington Post World Desk By 1989, the Berlin Wall stretched nearly 100 miles around West Berlin, including 30 miles through the city itself. Nearly 12 feet high in places, the barrier featured hundreds of watch towers and miles of trenches, barbed wire and signal fences.
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Europe marks 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the opening of the barrier between East and West Germany.
Washington Post World Desk "Friday morning, Veteran's Day, I awoke in my room at the Hotel Bismarck only to turn on the TV and see demonstrators climbing the wall from both sides!" -- loughlintmlgh
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Europe marks 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the opening of the barrier between East and West Germany.
Washington Post World Desk On this day in 1893, composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53. Read more: http://bit.ly/2ku0Oj
Washington Post World Desk Video: Germans remember the day when they heard that the wall dividing East Berlin and West Berlin was crumbling.
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Germans remember the day, two decades ago, when they heard that the wall dividing East Berlin and West Berlin was crumbling amidst popular protests.
