The Brandenburg Gate, where thousands gathered to celebrate the fallof the Berlin Wall. Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
Berlin Wall Anniversary Inspires New Calls For Unity -- Yahoo News/AFP
BERLIN (AFP) – World leaders joined more than 100,000 revellers Monday for emotional celebrations 20 years after the Berlin Wall's fall and called for a new transatlantic push against threats to global peace.
Chancellor Angela Merkel joined luminaries past and present to mark the defining moment in the end of communist rule in Europe, when the crumbling East German state finally opened the despised concrete border on November 9, 1989.
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ASIA
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AFRICA
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EUROPE
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AMERICAS
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TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR
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