Ostracized Roma still struggle across Balkans
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POSTOJNA, Slovenia  - Elka Strojan and her 30-strong Roma Gypsy family, forced to swap a house for three rooms in a former army barracks, highlight the precarious existence in the Balkans of Europe's largest minority.
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Nearly 18,000 people are still missing from the ethnic wars fought in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday.
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Europe is home to an estimated 7 million to 9 million Gypsies, also known as Roma. In a major effort to help one of Europe's largest, poorest and fastest-growing ethnic minorities, leaders of many Central and Eastern European countries are vowing to address their problems.
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As Bulgaria prepares for EU entry, people queuing for visas outside the UK embassy doubt there will be an exodus of migrants.
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Bulgaria and Romania, two of Europe's poorest countries, will try to recoup billions of dollars in debt from Iraq despite a call by the Paris Club of creditor states to mostly wipe the slate clean, officials ...
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Soviet-era security services are still sending shudders through the region nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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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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MITROVICA, Serbia  - There is a silent land swap under way in Kosovo, sifting Serb from Albanian under the noses of Western powers who swore the breakaway province would never be split along ethnic lines.
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Migrants and minorities suffer discrimination throughout the European Union but the extent of the problem is hidden by a lack of mechanisms in many states to monitor racism, an independent EU body said on Tuesday.
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Violence continues across western part of the country as rival ethnic groups face off
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About 1,000 Slovenian  villagers scuffled with police late on Saturday as they  protested against the return of a large Roma Gypsy family that  had been evicted last month.
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In the Tirana Summit Declaration on Inter-Religious and Inter-Ethnic Dialogue in Southeast Europe, the participants 'reaffirm that mutual respect, rooted in open dialogue and nourished by multi-ethnicity, ...
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Ethnic Serbs react angrily across the Balkans to Kosovo's declaration of independence.
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ZENICA, Bosnia -- They met in 1985 as Syrian immigrants in Croatia, two students in their 20s grappling with a language and a culture they didn't understand.
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Politics: 30 September 2004, Thursday. Bulgarian Balkancar Holding employees gathered at the Alexander Nevski Square in Sofia, near the Parliament, to protest for their unpaid salaries.
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Europe's Roma minority appealed to the United Nations on Wednesday to be included in annual Holocaust commemorations as recognized victims of Nazi Germany who still suffer discrimination across the continent.
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Albanians and Serbs united in uncertainty as province prepares to go it alone