Former Cold War borders fall away in new Europe
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ZITTAU, Germany  - Frontiers in east Europe once guarded by machineguns and barbed wire in the Cold War fell away on Friday as nine mostly former communist states joined the EU's border-free zone amid fireworks, cheers and music.
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Scientists find many regions on Earth that once had permanent frozen ground are now experiencing a thaw.
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"What is Schengen? It is not criminality, it is not uncertainty, it is not fear, it is a big space of security and stability"  By Martin DokoupilPETRZALKA, Slovakia  - Austria's chancellor and Slovakia's prime minister sawed through a red and white frontier barrier on Thursday in symbolic preparation for nine new countries joining the EU's border-free zone at midnight.Austria's Alfred Gusenbauer and Slovakia's Robert Fico stood either side of the pole on their common frontier working a double-handled saw, heralding what many see as a final lifting of the Iron Curtain between the former Soviet bloc and the West. Read more
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ASMARA, Eritrea  - In few countries does the Cold  War cast a longer shadow than in Eritrea, deprived of  nationhood by superpower rivalry at the dawn of independent  Africa.
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Eastern Europeans who have no plans to settle in UK often change their minds within months of coming here, according to new research.
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Since its break from the former Yugoslavia in 1991, Slovenia is no longer the well-kept secret for travelers it once was.
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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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BELGRADE, Dec 26 (IPS) - As the European Union (EU) drops boundaries between  its countries and its people, Serbia plans to introduce new ones  against its disputed southern province, Kosovo.
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Europe prepared to scrap internal border controls on Thursday and incorporate a slew of states formerly on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain in a frontier-free zone encompassing 400 million people in 24 countries.
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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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Robert H. Bork remembers his ambivalence in 1989 as the Berlin Wall came down and dungarees and rock music poured into the former East Germany.
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A familiar foreboding has set in, akin to the disintegration at the end of the Soviet occupation in 1989.
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Three Greek islands, Samos, Lesbos and Chios, have become new fault lines for immigration into the European Union.
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Eighteen years after the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, Germans are battling to preserve the last remnants of a barrier that still haunts the country.
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KULSHICHI, Belarus -- No one lives here anymore. Only radiation-danger signs stick up from the ground in this village contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl accident, and abandoned buildings gape silently, their windows broken.
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Berlin and Warsaw have moved closer to ending a row over Germany's plans to mark the expulsion of millions of Germans from eastern Europe after World War Two, a subject that has strained relations for years.
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Nine mainly ex-East bloc countries on Friday tore down their borders to join a European zone allowing 400 million people to travel from Estonia in the east to Portugal in the west without showing a passport.