News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 29 days ago
Gunter Schabowski, a politburo spokesman, having been handed a note, casually tossed it into proceedings near the end of a press conference. English-language journalists gathered at the back of the room, shocked and awed...It was already dark, but a...
News Source: The Daily Star
| about 1 month ago
But no continent benefited more than Asia, whose dramatic economic rise since 1989 has occurred at a speed and scale without parallel in world history. For Asia, the most important consequence of the fall of the Berlin Wall was that the collapse of...
News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 month ago
Monday marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall that preceded the collapse of the Soviet Union two years later. The effects of the event were also felt on the African continent, which for decades had been one of the arenas for the...