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Metro, bus and tramway services are at a standstill in Berlin, as in many other German cities, due to a strike by public transport employees. IMAGES
Berlin, Aug 13 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Clemens Bilan) The German president, Frank Walter Steinmeier, commemorated on Friday the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the construction of the Berlin Wall from the Bernauerstrasse, which started on August 13, 1961.FOOTAGE OF THE COMMEMORATION OF THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BERLIN WALL.
Berlin, Aug 12 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Clemens Bilan / Filip Singer) Berlin commemorates on Friday, August 13, 1961, the anniversary the beginning of the construction of the wall that divided the city until 1989 and whose remains are now an object of curiosity for visitors or of reflection on the traumatic division.FOOTAGE OF THE BERLIN WALL.
President-elect Joe Biden is planning to nominate Janet Yellen to head the Treasury Department. Business Insider reports if the US Senate confirms Yellen, she will be the first woman to hold the job. Yellen served as Fed Chair during President Barack Obama's second term, from 2014 to 2017. President Donald Trump replaced her with Jerome Powell as head of the Fed. If confirmed, Yellen will face an immense set of challenges, including the pandemic, unemployment, and widespread housing and food insecurity. With both parties fiercely divided on its size and reach for months, Congress still hasn't approved a second coronavirus economic aid package.
Buenos Aires (Argentina), Nov 19 (EFE), (Camera: Julieta Barrera).- On the night of November 9, 1989, a group of Argentine journalists were preparing the launch of a newsmagazine while observing the fall of the Berlin Wall.Two disconnected events that culminate in the journey to Argentina of the largest fragment of the wall outside of Germany and the opportunity for the artist Pablo Temes to capture his work in one of the pieces. The president of Grupo Perfil decided to bring a part of the wall to Argentina. FOOTAGE OF THE PIECE OD THE WALL WHO WAS PAINTED BY ARTIST PABLO TEMES.
Moscow, Nov 9 (EFE/EPA).- The art object "Fragment of the Berlin Wall" created by the artist Tatiana Ludanik to mark the 30th anniversary of the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990, was demolished Sunday in Moscow, the same day when the Berlin Wall fell. (Camera: YURI KOCHETKOV).SHOT LIST: THE CEREMONY OF THE DEMOLISION OF THE ART OBJECT "FRAGMENT OF THE BERLIN WALL - THE END OF DIVISION OF GERMANY AND EUROPE 1990" BY THE ARTIST TATIANA LUDANIK AT THE MUZEON PARK OF ARTS IN MOSCOW, RUSSIA.