Canal Controversy Divides Venice of the North
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Amsterdam, the "Venice of the North,"  is divided over plans to reopen canals paved over more than 100  years ago.
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Italy's picturesque lagoon city of Venice is known for many things, including, at least for now, a Brazilian shantytown.
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Telecom Italia took a detour from the road to convergence that most mobile and fixed-line operators have been treading, and wandered into a controversy that has spread from the market to the parliament.Comment
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A decision to rename a one-mile stretch of road is at the heart of a fierce dispute that, some say, is fracturing the spirit of one of the largest Vietnamese enclaves in the nation.
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By Sally Connell, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Jun. 17--Even as the project to ship water from Nacimiento Lake to homes and businesses in the North County and San Luis Obispo is nearing construction, some property owners are resisting plans to lay the pipeline across their land.
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The Venice Film Festival is past the  halfway point and the buzz ahead of the prize ceremony on  Saturday is building.
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Heated debate is raging in Berlin over what to do with the city's unique wall heritage, says the BBC's Ray Furlong.
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By Nicole Radzievich, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Jun. 17--The trees, their charming name aside, choke the banks of the historic towpath, blocking gorgeous views of the Lehigh River on one side and drying up parts of the canal on the other.
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There could not be a more powerful symbol to underline the deepening chasm that divides North from South than the conflicting perspectives regarding the crisis in Darfur.
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The treacherous waterway that separates this island from Italy's boot toe daunted Ulysses and Hannibal.
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VENICE, Italy  - Security measures at   the Venice International Film Festival are tighter than ever,   though some officials said the greatest threat this year may   come from protesters rather than any kind of terrorist plot.
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VENICE, Italy  - Anti-globalization protesters on  Thursday vowed more disturbances at Venice's most ambitious  film festival in years to protest against Hollywood's wealth  and reach after featuring as uninvited guests at its gala  opening.
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Rows over diplomatic and business issues are roiling a longstanding alliance at an uncertain juncture.
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PORT CHESTER, New York  - A dispute over voting rights reminiscent of the U.S. civil rights era has broken out in this New York town, where the federal government has thrust itself into the debate and a judge suspended an election.
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The long-running environmental fight over two new Southern Maryland subdivisions centered on an unusual feature: the Araby Bog, a wetland that supporters consider the best remaining example of its vanishing type.
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Series of clashes break out on land and sea in the war-torn north
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VENICE, Italy - Al Pacino growls, grimaces and demands a "pound of flesh" as Jewish moneylender Shylock in a new version of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." But the actor argued Saturday that the film successfully addresses long-standing controversy over the work's anti-Semitism.    Director Michael Radford - speaking to reporters after the film's screening at the Venice Film Festival - added that his picture shouldn't be seen as a tale just about tensions between Christians and Jews, but as a comment on the very modern problem of two cultures at odds...