Montenegro cancels compulsory army service
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Montenegro has canceled obligatory military service and instead introduced paid armed forces of professional soldiers.
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The Ministry of Defense confirmed yesterday that China&#39;s military had withdrawn most of its troops from Dongshan Island where it was to hold an annual war game, but would not say if the action indicated Beijing was calling off the maneuvers that simulate
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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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The armed Basque separatist group ETA said Tuesday it was ending the &quot;permanent&quot; ceasefire it declared in March last year, according to a statement sent to the Basque newspaper Berria.
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SKOPJE, Nov 6  - The Macedonian government, buoyed by US recognition of Macedonia&#39;s constitutional name, was pulling out all the stops Saturday to scupper a referendum that could set back the peace process with the restive ethnic Albanian minority.
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The European Union has reversed a plan that would have required Britain and Ireland to phase out imperial measurements in favor of the metric system.
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Cable TV channels showing Bollywood movies and music videos are taken off air in Afghanistan by the government.
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Russia has suspended its participation in a key pact limiting conventional forces in Europe through a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said in a statement on Saturday.
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Hungary will withdraw its 300 troops from Iraq by the end of March, the country&#39;s new prime minister said Wednesday. The announcement is a blow to President Bush&#39;s efforts to hold
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Sudan's government says it is halting  military operations in Darfur immediately and unconditionally.
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BUDAPEST, Dec 23  Hungary has pulled out the last of its 300-strong military contingent from Iraq after parliament refused to extend the transport unit's mission beyond 2004, a Defence Ministry ...
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In a blow to the US effort to hold the Iraq multinational forces together, Hungary announced yesterday that it will withdraw its 300 noncombat troops by the end of March.
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Serbia's parliament overwhelmingly adopted a resolution Wednesday that threatens to halt the country's integration into the European Union and cut off diplomatic ties with Western countries if they recognize Kosovo's independence.
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President Viktor A. Yushchenkoâs decree putting interior troops under his command was called unconstitutional.
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MOSCOW, July 14 -- Russia on Saturday formally suspended its participation in a conventional arms treaty dating from the last years of the Cold War that limits NATO and Russian military deployments in Europe.
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Montenegro votes on whether to end its union with Serbia, in what could spell the final demise of former Yugoslavia.
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Macedonian Prime Minister Hari Kostov quit today over disagreements with ethnic Albanian parties in the governing coalition, triggering a government crisis in the ethnically tense Balkan state.