Political divide took root centuries ago
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The roots of Ukraine's political crisis lie in a centuries-old divide between the country's east and west, a split between two cultures, two languages, and two histories within the same nation.
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Politics, however, still interferes in recollections of that horrible period even 60 years afterwards.
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Chimpanzees and humans split from a common ancestor just 4 million years ago -- a much shorter time than current estimates of 5 million to 7 million years ago, according to a study published on Friday.
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More than a century ago, European colonists carved up Africa, jamming together people who spoke different languages, danced to different music and worshipped different gods within the same borders.
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Conflicting ideologies and internal divisions came to the forefront across Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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Science & environment: Up and down the country ice rinks are brimming but skate use was very different nearly 4,000 years ago
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Amazing, but even in this time of goodwill and cheer, some folks are always looking for a fight. A recent exchange with a regular reader got me thinking how divisive things can get.
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The world is often divided along national, racial and religious lines. But a leading social psychologist says those divisions donât necessarily have to result in conflict.
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Our heavy-browed competitors lasted 2,000 years longer than previously thought, a new cave find suggests&#151;though not everyone agrees on the dates.
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When Britain and France signed the Entente Cordiale 100 years ago they hoped it would bring to an end centuries of conflict, from the territorial battles of the Middle Ages to colonial disputes of the nineteenth century.
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One unfortunate outcome of Ukraine&#39;s disputed presidential election is that it has brought into stark relief an east-west divide within that large country.
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This week's remembrances of the Six-Day War 40 years ago expose political divisions in Israeli society.
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More than a decade and a half after the   collapse of the Berlin Wall, a new east-west divide has opened   up in the city which was for 40 years the front-line of the   Cold War.
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The Ukrainian presidential election and its aftermath have been marked by propaganda that is exposing old fractures in the former Soviet republic. Differences that are broadly defined by an east-west divide are bursting to the surface.
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Squabbling over who served tainted what to whom masks deeper rifts.
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Knesset approval of Ariel Sharon&#39;s disengagement plan was billed as a historic decision. It could also be a case of history repeating itself, writes Graham Usher.
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Analysis: Border disputes and Chinese ties with Pakistan have long divided them, but business could bring them together