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                    [Title] => At Berlin Wall, Kerry warns against Cold War redux
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Surrounded by relics of the Cold War, US Secretary of State John Kerry and his German counterpart warned yesterday against a return to the bitter divide between east and west over the current crisis in Ukraine.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-23 04:06:34 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1509961 [AuthorName] => Matthew Lee [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1368707 [Title] => Breezing into Berlin [Summary] =>

For as low as 2.50 euros (about P144), you can have a piece of the Berlin Wall – or at least that’s the stated claim on the refrigerator magnets with rock fragments stuck to them, which are sold in souvenir shops all over the German capital.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1364892 [Title] => Opening up [Summary] =>

Acting students have taken over Checkpoint Charlie, the crossing along the Berlin Wall where US forces and their allies the Brits and French used to eyeball East German and Russian troops across one of the most notorious symbols of the Cold War.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 963037 [Title] => Pope heads to Sicily to pray with new migrants [Summary] =>

Pope Francis heads Monday to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa for his first pastoral visit outside Rome, going to the farthest reaches of Italy to pray with migrants who have recently arrived by boat and mourn those who have died trying.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-08 04:03:32 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1620045 [AuthorName] => Nicole Winfield and Tricia Thomas [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 706282 [Title] => Journey on the Orient Express [Summary] =>

When you reach a certain age and life becomes precarious, some resort to making bucket lists.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 690559 [Title] => Never say 'never' [Summary] =>

Immediately he preached the Christ in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God.

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Daily Bread [SectionUrl] => daily-bread [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 521460 [Title] => Facebook photo shows Sarkozy at Berlin Wall [Summary] => PARIS (AP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy has posted on Facebook a photo of himself chipping away at the Berlin Wall and a brief reminiscence about the fall of the wall 20 years ago. [DatePublished] => 2009-11-09 06:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 340032 [Title] => The sentimental tourist [Summary] => Winner, Lifestyle Journalism Awards 2006 sponsored by The Philippine Star, Stores Specialists, Inc. and HSBC
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1215075 [AuthorName] => Cecile Lopez Lilles [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 305491 [Title] => Samsung, shopping and beer-guzzling in Berlin [Summary] => Adecade ago, the name Samsung was almost unknown outside of South Korea. All that has changed. Today, Samsung Electronics Company is a global leader in telecommunications, semi-conductors, digital media, and digital convergence. It has approximately 113,000 employees in over 90 offices in 48 countries.

The corporation consists of five main business units. They are:

The telecommunication network business, which is the world’s third largest manufacturer of mobile phones and the leading producer of handsets.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136331 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804796 [AuthorName] => Honey Jarque Loop [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) ) )
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