Antique steam train carries flag for Serbian tourism revival
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A small train climbs up the mountain of Chargan, near Serbia's border with Bosnia, fulfiling a 100-year-old prophecy in a landscape of forests and ravines, the scene of Serbia-based director Emir Kusturica's latest film, &quot;Life is a Miracle.&quot;
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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 ...
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CHOROTIS, Argentina This is an old railroad town, with severed telegraph lines dangling from track-side poles and a depot where graffiti is the one obvious sign of recent activity.
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Eighty years ago the Artouste train in the French Pyrenees transported workers and materiel to build a dam at 2000 meters (6500 feet) altitude, but today it ferries tourists for a sometimes hair-raising ride along one of Europe's highest rail lines.
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BOR, Serbia  - Once a socialist success story, Serbia's bankrupt copper mine is now hoping surging copper prices can attract a new owner with cash to reverse the fortunes of the sprawling complex and dusty town beyond.
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The breakaway province is expected to declare independence from Serbia imminently.
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NOVI SAD, Serbia  - The elegantly renovated 19th-century buildings and lush parks give this town on the Danube the feel of a cosmopolitan resort, not a place run by one of Europe's most hardline nationalist parties.
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The restoration of special trade concessions means that Serbian sugar producers will now be able to export sugar at around 600 euros (US$724) per tonne, up from 200 euros (US$241) per tonne.
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The Serbian government recognized newly independent Montenegro on Thursday, and said it would establish diplomatic ties with its former partner in the now defunct Serbia-Montenegro union.
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From symbol of mediaeval majesty to magnet for mass tourism, Prague's Charles Bridge has a special place in Czech hearts.
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Once a socialist success story,  Serbia's bankrupt copper mine is now hoping surging copper  prices can attract a new owner with cash to reverse the  fortunes of the sprawling complex and dusty town beyond.
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Lenin's portrait still graces the wall, but his scowl can't dampen Istvan Szikora's labor of love -- saving Hungary's old steam trains from extinction.
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Germany's national railway, Deutsche Bahn, said Friday it had reached an agreement with the Transport Ministry to open an exhibition documenting its predecessor's role in the Holocaust.
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A historic Serbian Jewish cemetery that for decades has been home to hundreds of Gypsies is getting a face lift after an agreement negotiated by the head of the tiny Jewish community in the town of Nis.
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Croatia may reopen its most notorious communist-era prison for tourists willing to part with their money to re-enact the life of a political prisoner - including hard labor, stale food and nights in solitary ...
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A great symbol of the rugged old West, or at least as it was portrayed by Hollywood, is riding off into the sunset.
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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.