-PHOTO TAKEN 04OCT03- The Siachen Glacier, north of Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Since 1984, India and Pakistan have been fighting for control of the Siachen Glacier and the surrounding tangle of mountains where South Asia, Central Asia and [China] collide. Picture taken October 4, 2003.

A general view shows the inside of the former and soon-to-be-restored home of the German parliament, the Reichstag, in the German capital Berlin April 18. After half a century in Bonn, the German parliament and government are moving in phases during the course of the year, with an April 19 session in the 105-year-old Reichstag the symbolic advent of the so-called Berlin Republic.

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Leaders of the Group of 15 gather for a summit in Kuala Lumpur, November 3. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, speaking at the opening ceremony of the three-day G-15 summit, launched a biting attack on currency and stock speculators who he said had impoverished Southeast Asia in the space of few months.

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