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2:22 p.m. ET · Some find the city's new classically designed monument beautiful; others say it reflects a cultural inferiority complex.

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12:53 p.m. ET · Database aims to make it easy for employers to check worker immigration status. Critics say the accuracy rate is too low.

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German critics have lambasted the building's design ahead of its festive July 4 inauguration.

Last month's Supreme Court ruling sets new rules for judges examining habeas corpus challenges from detainees.

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Zimbabwe's opposition rejects calls for a unity government, however, citing perceived bias of mediator, South African President Thabo Mbeki.

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2:51 p.m. ET · Recent economic woes are raising new doubts about the benefits of globalization.

1:49 p.m. ET · Employee cutbacks in the US force firms to shift overseas, creating as many as 600,000 new jobs for Filipinos.

11:26 a.m. ET · Inspired by childhood memories of community rituals, human rights activist John Caulker treks across Sierra Leone to reconcile war crime perpetrators and their victims.

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12:09 p.m. ET · A violinmaker in Boston creates beautiful instruments because he loves music.

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For Palestinians in areas of Jerusalem seized in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the attack reinforces their precarious status.

Relatives of Ingrid Betancourt and Marc Gonsalves had come to London to raise awareness of their detention by FARC rebels. Instead, they are being reunited.

• Betancourt meets children in Colombia, while Americans return home

While his Colombian girlfriend and twin sons waited, American captive Keith Stansell reached out. He was freed Wednesday.

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