Norwegians to relive Kon-Tiki Polynesia-Peru trip
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A grandson of Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian who 60 years ago sailed from Polynesia to Peru aboard Kon-Tiki, will launch a reenactment of the trip in April 2005 across the Pacific.
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For 12,000 years or more, Columbia River tribes gathered nearby to do business with distant tribes. Now they want to come back &#151; to deal blackjack and poker.
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MIAMI, June 13 -- More than 400 pre-Columbian artifacts believed to have been taken from ancient graves in Peru were given back to that country here today in what was described by officials as the largest such recovery since the 1970s, when Peru and the United States agreed to import restrictions...
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Nordic countries are praising Thailand as survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami return home with tales of the compassion and generosity shown to holidaymakers after the disaster.
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Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey will host the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert in Norway on Saturday.
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Nordic countries are praising  Thailand as survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami return home  with tales of the compassion and generosity shown to  holidaymakers after the disaster.
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The tiny Pacific island chain of Tuvalu is set to become the newest Olympic member. Montenegro, which was recognized by the committee board this year after splitting from Serbia, is also set to gain formal admittance from the assembly. The centerpiece of the meetings is Wednesdayâs selection of the host city for the 2014 Winter Olympics. The three candidates are Salzburg, Austria; Pyeongchang, South Korea; and Sochi, Russia.
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Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey would host this year's Nobel Peace Prize concert at Oslo, Norway, in December.
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Norway's King Harald V and Queen Sonja will pay an official five-day friendly visit to Vietnam next week, beginning November 1. The visit is made at the invitation of Vietnamese State President Tran Duc Luong.
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REINE, Norway  - "It's as if the Earth ends with these islands," says Bogumil Lewandowski, a Polish construction worker living on Norway's Lofoten Islands, north of the Arctic Circle.
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Yale University will return artifacts taken 90 years ago from Machu Picchu and said on Monday that Peru is the rightful owner of thousands of objects found at the Inca citadel.
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Norway is set to make a fresh bid to salvage Sri Lanka's peace process two years after kicking off internationally-backed negotiations with hopes of ending three decades of ethnic bloodshed.
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Finland&#39;s Tanja Poutiainen clears a gate during the women&#39;s slalom World Cup race in Zauchensee, Austria, on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2004.
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In a move almost unheard of in its industry, Norwegian Cruise Line has apologized for service problems during the Pride of Aloha&#39;s first two months of sailing around Hawaii, and is refunding a portion of the service charge to everyone who has cruised on
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The prime ministers of Norway, Sweden and Finland are visiting Thailand to see for themselves the devastation wrought by the Asian tsunami disaster.
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Norway's Foreign Minister Jan Petersen and the United Nation's Middle East envoy Terje Rd-Larsen will attend the funeral ceremony for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's in Cairo on Friday.
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Sunday, October 10, 2004 The CNMI can explore a possible sister-city relations with Albania to pave the way for closer relations between the country and the Northern Mariana Islands, said former U.S. ...