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WALLS designed to keep people in or out a ' whether in Berlin, Nicosia, Israel, or Korea a ' are always the product of fear: East German leaders' fear of a mass exodus by their citizens seeking freedom and dignity; Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders' fear of continued war; Israelis' fear of terrorism; or the North Korean leadership's fear of ...

Affirmation of freedom: Giant dominos placed along the former border fall in a symbolic act in Berlin on Monday.

Britons banking on pre-Christmas shopping bargains should head for the former Eastern Bloc countries, it has been revealed.

"The winds of change are blowing throughout Europe - from the Atlantic to the Urals, from the Arctic Ocean to the Mediterranean.

Until the first plink of hammers sounded across the Berlin Wall in early November 1989, Checkpoint Charlie was a Cold War touchstone.

BERLIN, Germany, NOV. 9, 2009 .- On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city's archbishop is recalling the moment of Germany's reunification with gratitude.

Reuters, Berlin US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday urged Iran to accept a U.N.-drafted proposal to have uranium for a medical reactor enriched abroad.

The Berlin Wall is now more a mental construct than a physical one. Torn down, pulverized or distributed around the world, it is now little more than the gravel beneath our highways, the artwork in our lunch-rooms or the trinkets brought home by tourists.

When dozens of East Berliners showed up at the Bornholmer Strasse border crossing on a cold and gray November evening in 1989 demanding to be let into West Berlin, Lt.

On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. The East German nation, for 28 years hidden from the world's eyes behind almost impassable walls, suddenly opened up.

Faculty members of the University of Northern Colorado will convene for a panel discussion concerning the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Three Americans taken into custody near the border with Iraq on July 31 are facing spying charges, Iran's judiciary said yesterday, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for their release.

"I am delighted to be here in Berlin, the city that meant so much, not only to the German people, but to the European and the American people and the world," Clinton said at the Chancellory.

On Sunday ABC Radio national broadcast the world premiere of the radio version of David Hare's Berlin , a 55-minute meditation about Germany's restored capital.

The president does not plan to travel to Germany to attend the 20th anniversary celebration Monday of the fall of the Berlin Wall, drawing heated criticism from those who say he's ignoring a shining triumph of American-inspired democracy.

So, it has been 20 years since the Berlin Wall came down and Germany embarked on its journey towards reunification? Really? If my friends from the US, Canada, Norway had not made me aware of this anniversary, maybe I could not care less.

This Nov. 11, 1989 file photo shows East German border guards standing on top of the Berlin wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate, background, after they removed Berliners from the wall.

TOMORROW in Berlin the wall will fall as thousands gather before the Brandenburg Gate to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the night East and West Germany took their first step towards unification.

THE elderly lady with her shopping bag stood and stared at the armed policeman politely but firmly preventing her from crossing the 8ft-high barrier built across the street.

Fireworks explode in front of the Brandenburg Gate's quadriga during a ceremony to inaugurate the new US embassy building in Berlin on July 4, 2008.