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Merkel on Hill for Wall anniversary

Nov. 4, 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked next week's 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a speech to Congress on Tuesday calling for a new global financial order and for wealthy nations to make a climate-change deal next month in Copenhagen. Mrs. Merkel also called for harsh...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch