Montenegro gets green light to join Olympic family
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland  - Montenegro is set to become the 204th Olympic nation after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) cleared its application on Wednesday.
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Their success at the Games could be a catalyst for change in Greece.
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Cherie Blair, the wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair, announced she is to join a team of ambassadors promoting London's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games.
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ATHENS, 20 August - The semifinal line-up in the men&#39;s singles has been settled with both contests featuring a Chile v USA match-up, so each nation is assured of at least one Singles medal.
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Tiny Montenegro was steering a course toward the European Union with Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic saying he had scored an outright majority in the republic's first election since proclaiming independence three months ago.
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ATHENS -- Evita Agiasoteli has been counting Greece's Olympic medals. Each one comes with a celebration from the boy next door, who likes to run through their neighborhood in the northern Athenian suburb of Nea Ionia yelling &quot;Hellas!&quot; with each gold. Other neighbors often leave their evening yogurts unfinished so they can join the boy's victory cheer.
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Prague officially entered the race Tuesday to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, joining a strong field that includes candidates from the United States, Japan and Brazil.
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Montenegrins voted Sunday in the first parliamentary elections since the tiny state split from Serbia &#151; a ballot that could prove key to the new country's aspirations to become a member of NATO and the European Union.
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NATO on Tuesday offered Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro the first step on the road to membership of the alliance, and declared that other Balkan countries could expect firm invitations to join in 2008.
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The EU tells Montenegro there will be no shortcuts to joining, but some agreement could be reached by the end of year.
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Each child born on 20 December will be given the chance to be a part of the 2012 Olympics if the London bid is successful.
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The European Union is to adopt a new "twin track" approach to its dealings with the two officially united Balkan republics of Serbia and Montenegro, in an attempt to speed up their preparations for EU ...
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VOLOS, Greece  - Unless Italy recaptures a title it last won 68 years ago, the Olympic Games will crown a new soccer champion in Athens on Aug. 28.
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A Greek court has ruled that one of the main suspects in the killing of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic should be extradited to Serbia-Montenegro. Dejan Milenkovic was arrested in the Greek port of ...
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Greece is a âsafe destinationâ, a âmodern European Countryâ that organised âtechnically excellentâ Olympic Games with a âhuman dimensionâ.
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Marsaxlokk are in the process of finalising their selection of a new foreign trio for the rest of the season.
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BRUSSELS (BBC News) - The EU expects Serbia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania to have signed initial deals paving the way for eventual entry into the bloc by the end of 2008, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said in Brussels on Tuesday. "I expect that in 2008 conditions will be fulfilled and thus we will be able to complete Stabilisation and Association Agreements (SAA) with all countries in the region," EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said in Brussels on Tuesday. He praised Serbia in particular for turning its back on its nationalist past by supporting the work of the UN's war crimes tribunal in The Hague.