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AFP 02:50 PM | September 01,2009
At events later Tuesday, leaders of some 20 nations including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin - were to join them in remembering history’s bloodiest conflict
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Reuters 11:58 AM | August 13,2009
Europe’s largest economy had been in its sharpest recession since the war, with GDP declining for four consecutive quarters
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Peter Capella / AFP 09:54 AM | July 27,2009
US soldiers were responsible for giving the pocket knife wider international resonance after World War II. They eventually bought them at US army ‘PX´ stores in Europe and gave them to relatives or friends back home
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Jonathan Lynn / Reuters 11:51 PM | April 03,2009
Ministers from trading powers came close to a deal last July, but the talks eventually foundered on differences between the US and major emerging countries
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Chandrahas Choudhury 09:46 PM | March 06,2009
A widely travelled historian’s personal, idiosyncratic story of American history
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Our View 12:27 AM | January 30,2009
The world economy is in genuine trouble and most of the old solutions have proven to be ineffective
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Pursuits | Vir Sanghvi 09:29 PM | January 23,2009
The word “mole” is used so often now that we forget that it is of relatively recent vintage
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Chandrahas Choudhury 09:41 PM | January 08,2009
A great French writer brings alive both the intimacy of marriage and the horror of war
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Pursuits | Vir Sanghvi 05:16 AM | January 01,2009
The key to their motivation is the belief that what happens in this brief life doesn’t really matter
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John Parry and Richard Leong / Reuters 11:12 PM | November 27,2008
Once the credit crisis eases, investors could desert government debt in droves, triggering a vicious sell-off
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Siddharth Singh 11:59 PM | October 17,2008
Why George W Bush isn’t setting a new precedent in American foreign policy -- just adding to a long lineage of similar policymakers
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Stephen Ohlemacher / AP 11:16 AM | September 23,2008
The country added a half million immigrants in 2007, down from more than 1.8 million year before
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12:13 AM | September 13,2008
Jason Bourne’s new enemy is a Muslim terrorist; the controversial James Frey’s LA novel
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AFP 01:05 PM | July 29,2008
Han Seung Soo seeks to consolidate hold over territory controlled by Seoul, but claimed by Tokyo since 1905 after Japan won a war with Russia
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11:20 PM | June 05,2008
Keynes had led a successful revolution against the mainstream economics of his time
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