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The Berlin Wall is opened for Christmas – archive, 1963

In December 1963, an agreement between East and West Germany allowed West Berliners to obtain one-day passes to visit relatives in East Berlin

The Guardian - UK

Javier Milei Sworn in as President of Argentina

"Just as the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of a tragic era for the world," he said, "these elections have marked the turning point in our history."

Reason

'Biggest impact since fall of Berlin Wall': Oxford expert hails key Scottish policy

THE Scottish Child Payment has seen the biggest reduction in inequality caused by a single policy change since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, an…

The National (Scotland)

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Berlin Wall relic gets a 'second life' on US-Mexico border as Biden adds barriers

As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away

The Independent UK

"I and everybody else were old farts in her opinion" - Roger Waters on the night Sinéad O'Connor sang her spellbinding version of Pink Floyd's Mother

To mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, Roger Waters invited a stellar cast to Berlin for a restaging of Pink Floyd's The Wall - including The Scorpions, Joni Mitchell and Sinéad O'Connor

Louder

The American Sector review – US road trip to hunt down remnants of the Berlin Wall

This film tells the story of concrete slabs that have been rehomed thousands of miles away in bizarre yet unremarkable locations

The Guardian - UK

German man held for role in fatal arson attack on asylum seekers in 1991

A German man has been arrested on suspicion of helping in the murder and attempted murder of 20 people at a fire at an asylum seekers hostel three decades ago, one of a series of attacks on foreigners after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Reuters

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From rampaging teens to female assassins: why has East German culture become so cool?

Is Britain’s sudden appetite for the GDR an unhealthy obsession? Katja Hoyer, author of Beyond the Wall, examines the new wave of books and shows about life under the Stasi in the vanished state

The Guardian - UK

'Beyond the Wall': The GDR seen from an East German perspective

On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, symbolising the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Plenty of books, essays and documentaries have been devoted to the historic turning point, but hearing from East Germans about how they experienced the four decades of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)…

France 24

OPINION - Charles driving into a minefield with his slimmed down monarchy plans

When the King marks his first state visit as monarch in Berlin today the setting will not be the the bland residence of the German head of state at Bellevue. Instead, the accommodation will be at the bustling Adlon hotel, with the walkabout and “meeting with citizens” staged at the…

Evening Standard

Fence 'like the Berlin Wall' has blocked community from park for months

Structure created by builders putting up new homes - but work has stalled

Wales Online

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