Long shadow Sixty years on, the impact of the Yalta conference is still felt
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It is 60 years since the three major allied leaders, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, met to divide up the world in the old summer palace of the tsars in the Crimean resort of Yalta - and the dark memories of ...
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An Israeli and a Palestinian reflect on the impact of the Six-Day War that began 40 years ago Tuesday.
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No country in history has emerged as a major industrial power without creating a legacy of environmental damage that can take decades and big dollops of public wealth to undo.
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Forty years later, defeats and disappointments continue to shape the lives of Palestinians and Israelis
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As Israel marks 40 years after an extraordinary victory, there is far less exultation than questioning about the warâs impact on the country.
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Cold war workers, sick from exposure to radiation years ago, now face a tangle of red tape between them and government compensation.
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Cold War workers, sick from exposure to radiation years ago, now face a tangle of red tape between them and government compensation.
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Inequality in some parts of society remains at &quot;intolerable levels&quot;, despite significant progress in the last 60 years, and could last indefinitely if nothing is done.
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Several hundred mainly British World War II veterans gathered to commemorate one of the darkest moments in the British army's long history: the slaughter at Arnhem Bridge 60 years ago.
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The agreement to reduce global warming goes into effect tomorrow after seven years of wrangling, harangues, and dramatic entrances and exits by Russia and the United States, but the impact may be largely symbolic.
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Ukraine this week marks the anniversary of  one of World War Two's most notorious wartime massacres,  reflecting on a key stage in Nazi Germany's plan to kill off  European Jewry and on persisting anti-Semitism at home.
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It has now been nine months since the country went through its biggest political change in 16 years, but actually, surprisingly little has changed.
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Climate change and Russian concerns over an American missile defense plan are expected to dominate todayâs meeting of wealthy democracies.
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Kazakhstan's nuclear orphans are a distressing sight: heads that don't match their undersized bodies, and legs and arms twisted in awful contortions. It's a horrifying reminder of the nation's nuclear past -- that nearly two decades after nuclear testing ended, children are still paying the price.
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For more than 20 years, it&#39;s been one of the world&#39;s forgotten wars. Some 2 million people have died, yet it&#39;s received relatively scant global attention.
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In few countries does the Cold War cast a longer shadow than in Eritrea, deprived of nationhood by superpower rivalry at the dawn of independent Africa.
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The 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was marked on Thursday. Have we learnt the lessons of history?