Once Ravaged by War, Now Vacation Spots
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Hoping to replace images of violence with those of hospitality, countries once torn by war are seeking to boost tourism.
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LONDON, May 24 -- Families forced to leave the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, to make way for a U.S. military base at Diego Garcia during the Cold War have won a key legal victory in their long struggle to return.
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Assaults on American tourists have brought hard times to hotels and restaurants that dot Mexican beaches just south of the border from San Diego.
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WASHINGTON -- For the two regions hardest hit by the Asian tsunamis, international relief efforts are being complicated by more than the rising death tolls and physical devastation: They are also war zones.
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Move over, Florida and Hawaii. Your beaches are no longer the best.
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Jahorina, the 1984 Olympic ski mountain, was scarred by war and reputation. It's starting to make a comeback.
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With its snake charmers,  storytellers and palm trees against a backdrop of snow-capped  mountains, Marrakesh was once an offbeat destination for rich  or adventurous Europeans.
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Tourists bored with bungee jumping and other extreme holidays may soon be able to get their teeth into another challenge: a couple of weeks in a former communist detention camp in Croatia with hard labour thrown in.
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Beneath the sparkling five-star tourist sheen of Taba lies a richly historical region that is littered with memories of failed Middle East peace processes.
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BELGRADE, Serbia - Eight years after it was hit by NATO airstrikes, the former Yugoslav Defense Ministry still lies in ruins on Boulevard Knez Milosa, a reminder of what the Serbs consider unwarranted aggression by the West in the war over the Serb province of Kosovo.
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The recent conflict between Hezbollah and Israeli forces&#151;now halted by a tentative cease-fire&#151;appears to have left historic sites in the war-torn country unscathed.
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Enjoy an affordable and luxurious stay in Jerusalem. Mend a life shattered by terrorism.
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In the over 20 years I spent in Africa, I saw a lot of desolation and more than enough barren camps erected to house civilians displaced by war and famine.
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By TODD RICHMOND LAKE DELTON, Wis. - In a wooded ravine tucked away from the water parks, restaurants and mega-resorts that dominate this tourist town, a piece of history is quietly dying.
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Masontown residents cool off near Oak Park. Many people would find it hard to believe that Camp Dawson was once the home of Italian prisoners of war during World War II, but a few Italian-American residents in ...
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Armed guards may become a presence on one of the world's most famous tourist attractions.
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BELGRADE, Aug 18  (IPS) - Countries across the Balkans are boosting tourism  to build recovery from communism  or the wars that broke former  Yugoslavia.