Bosnian rafters say paradise under threat
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GLAVATICEVO, Bosnia  - A group of French peacekeepers rafting on a sunny October day through the spectacular gorge of the Neretva river are among the last of many tourists before the cold, rainy season.
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Thousands of survivors of Europe's worst massacre since World War II protested Monday in Sarajevo, demanding a special administrative status for the town of Srebrenica and saying it should not be run by Bosnian Serb authorities who were responsible for genocide there.
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Fertilizer and sediment runoff from sugarcane, banana and pineapple plantations are threatening tourism by damaging a coral reef stretching along the Caribbean coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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VISEGRAD, Bosnia  - The decaying Ottoman bridge on Bosnia's River Drina at Visegrad is soon to be restored, but the community whose life around it was chronicled in an epic novel is unlikely to be the same again.
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A priest is in a critical condition after being attacked by men armed with machetes on an island where Westerners have been warned they are at risk from Muslim terrorists.
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The decaying Ottoman bridge on  Bosnia&#39;s River Drina at Visegrad is soon to be restored, but  the community whose life around it was chronicled in an epic  novel is unlikely to be the same again.
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Last summer it was Israeli airstrikes and Hezbollah rockets. This year, it's al-Qaida-inspired militants and explosions keeping tourists away. This small, trouble-plagued country is once again set to lose millions of much-needed tourism dollars because of unrest.
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Bulgaria&#39;s wilderness areas, among the largest in Europe, are threatened by property investors who use legal loopholes to contest the territories&#39; protected status to build holiday flats.
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A suspected bombing plot in Barcelona is indicative of an important threat coming from Pakistan, officials said.
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The situation in the flood-ravaged Haitian city of Gonaives &quot;remains critical&quot;, the UN peacekeeping chief on the island has warned.
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Serbian President Boris Tadic, facing growing international isolation, is under increasing pressure to hand war-crime suspects over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
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Tonnes of trash dumped in Indian Kashmir during an annual religious pilgrimage pose a serious threat to the region's water supplies and flora, environmental groups warn.
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Bosnia's peace sponsors expressed concern on Tuesday about the direction the country has taken because of nationalist rhetoric and failure to reform.
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By DIRK MEISSNER  VICTORIA (CP) - Pounding rains and rising river waters had some northwest B.C. residents piling sandbags to protect their homes against what the province said Monday would be inevitable flooding.
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The failure of Bosnian Serbs to hand over warcrimes suspects could ruin Bosnia's hopes of joining NATO and the European Union, top international envoy Paddy Ashdown said here.
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Some 200,000 workers in the tourism business in the six southern provinces that have been hardest hit by the deadly tsunami on Sunday are facing the bleak prospect of losing their jobs, according to Sontaya Kunplome, the tourism and sports minister.
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Representatives of environmental organisations meeting in Bratislava on Thursday have suggested that government activities pose the biggest threat to Slovakia's High Tatra mountains.