World commemorates end of slavery
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The UN is leading a day of global events to mark the abolition of slavery and to highlight continuing abuses.
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World leaders gather in Poland to mark 60 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.
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A campaign urging people to be more aware of human trafficking is being formally launched.
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An OSCE-sponsored conference on improving human rights protection for trafficking victims concluded by calling on governments around the world to do more to stop the smuggling and exploitation of people.
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St. Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn held a commemoration to express the grief of the slave trade from Africa to the New World.
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A service to mark the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War is held on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.
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World Aids Day was marked around the globe by somber religious services, boisterous demonstrations and warnings that far more needs to be done to treat and prevent the disease in order to avert millions of additional deaths.
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The White House and US embassies around the world dimmed their lights Wednesday to commemorate World AIDS Day, this year dedicated to empowering women and girls in the fight against the disease.
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Welcome to the heart and soul of America. A sign greets visitors outside a truck stop with a resounding: &quot;Let freedom reign.&quot; There is one white, wooden evangelical church and lots of Bush-Cheney posters along the roadside.
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Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves.
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People around the world are coming together to celebrate the world wide web and its impact on people.
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IBADAN, Nigeria - Allegedly abandoned by their American mother in Africa as she took up military contract work in Iraq, seven children from Texas begged small change to buy food and shuttled from a neglectful stranger's care to a concrete-block orphanage, Nigerians said Thursday.    Eventually, the children proved their American citizenship to a passing missionary from Texas by singing the Star-Spangled Banner, and he notified U.S...
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(Undated) Dec. 25, 2004 - As the world celebrates Christmas, there is new hope for peace abroad despite ever-present tensions. The crowds are larger than in recent years at Bethlehem, the traditional birthplace of Jesus Christ.
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Events are held around the world to mark the first ever United Nations anti-corruption day.
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Naomi Ewowo had just lost her parents when her family branded her a witch. She was 5.
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The United Nations broke with years of protocol and commemorated the 60-year anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps, directly linking its own founding with the end of the Holocaust in some of the strongest language ever.
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ROANOKE RAPIDS - People around the world marked World AIDS Day on Wednesday, an annual event observed every Dec. 1. The campaign draws public and health agency representatives together to learn more about