World remembers 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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By Ben Lynfield | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. KHAN YUNIS REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP - The sights, sounds, and emotions in Gaza Sunday were those of war, not of the turning point toward peace
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Descendants of a plantation's masters and slaves come together to recount history - and forge family bonds.
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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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American students often get the impression from history classes that the British got here first, settling Jamestown, Va., in 1607. They hear about how white Northerners freed the black slaves, how Asians came in the mid-1800s to build Western railroads. The lessons have left out a lot.
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The story began 20 years ago in Kenya with one family's grief. It wound halfway around the world, passed through Hollywood and came to a museum in the middle of the U.S.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN General Assembly commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps with a special session yesterday, and survivor Elie Wiesel and world leaders confronted a question that has long haunted the United Nations: whether the world body has the will to stop genocide.
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Memorial ... visitors walk through the gates at Auschwitz. EUROPE united in collective sorrow and shame at yesterday's commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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World leaders gather in southern Poland to mark 60 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.
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OSWIECIM, Poland  - Dusted by falling snow and  surrounded by barbed wire, world leaders mourned the victims of  the Holocaust on Thursday, the 60th anniversary of the  liberation of the biggest Nazi death camp at  Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Monitoring the recent elections in Bosnia brought home to me in a special way that the United States is indeed a blessed country. The war in Bosnia ended nine years ago.
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web sites) Day. We remember the people who have succumbed to this devastating disease, celebrate the great advances
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has voiced &quot;deep sorrow&quot; for the country's historic role in the slave trade, but stopped short of a full apology sought by some critics.
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ELEANOR HALL: The 40-day mourning period being observed in Russia for the hundreds of men, women and children killed in the school siege in the North Ossetian town of Beslan is coming to an end today.
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The dream of a free world becomes a nightmare of modern day slavery in Ken Loach's latest film, about migrant workers trying to eke out a living in Britain where they are exploited and abused.
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MADRAS, 28 December 2004 - Grief and anguish marked final rituals across Southeast Asia yesterday as relatives buried or cremated their loved ones; and the death toll from a powerful earthquake and the giant tidal waves it unleashed crossed 25,000.
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A ceremony is held in Berlin to mark the laying of the last of several thousand slabs as part of a memorial to Holocaust victims.