
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.

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Podcast: Video journalist Travis Fox talks about documenting Mexico's drug war,
and correspondent Blaine Harden discusses North Korea's military.
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Correspondents in The Washington Post's foreign bureaus offer on-the-ground reports from around the world.

Washington Post World Desk On this day in 1979, the Iran hostage crisis began as militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seizing its occupants; for some, it was the start of 444 days of captivity. Read more: http://bit.ly/3cDUin

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In this seaside village, the children of farmers and fishermen aspire to become something that their impoverished parents never thought possible: astronauts.

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The number of minors swept up in Mexico's
drug wars -- as killers and victims -- is soaring, with U.S. and
Mexican officials warning that a toxic culture of fast money, drug
abuse and murder is creating a "lost generation."

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"I did know what this fully meant but this was momentous; this was history in front of my eyes. The face of Europe had changed and where it would end, I didn't know." -- OldGeezer
>> Share your memories from the fall of the Berlin Wall: http://bit.ly/3GlnBf
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Twenty years ago, East Germany opened the checkpoints along its border with West Germany, including in Berlin. Huge crowds flooded through and began pulling down the wall that divided the city, signaling the decline of communism around the world.

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SEOUL -- North Korea's military, whose nuclear program vexes the Obama administration, has grabbed nearly complete command of the nation's state-run economy and staked out a lucrative new trade in mineral sales to China to make money for its supreme commander, Kim Jong Il.

Washington Post World Desk Video: Violence among Mexico's youth soars as drug cartels recruit more minors.

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MASKIOT, WEST BANK -- The backhoes are busy on housing plots for this new Israeli settlement in the Jordan Valley, and young families, under army guard and toting M-16s, have begun cultivating dozens of acres of land with dates, olives and other crops. To the south, a water pipeline from Jerusale...

Washington Post World Desk Your Take: Where were you and what were you thinking when the Berlin Wall fell? If you don't remember Nov. 9, 1989, what has shaped your impression of the event? http://bit.ly/3GlnBf

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SUNZHENSKY, RUSSIA -- Her face wet with tears and framed by a black shawl, Madina Albakova sat in her ransacked living room and described how she had become another teenage widow here in Ingushetia, the most volatile of Russia's Muslim republics.

Washington Post World Desk On this day in 1938, the radio play "The War of the Worlds," starring Orson Welles, aired on CBS. The live drama panicked some listeners who thought the portrayal of a Martian invasion was real. Read more: http://bit.ly/3g4axg

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As China's economy has grown more diverse, an increasing number of Chinese
have had to fend for themselves, with only a porous government
insurance program to help.
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BEIJING -- Shen Baohou, 72, who once worked for a hydropower station in Sichuan province, has a serious heart problem, and he -- and his children -- are paying for it dearly.
















