Croatian isles of peace
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I left my husband sitting on a bench near the ferry dock as I followed the woman along a stone path toward a house hidden amid a grove of orange trees.
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Many people believe that Croatia may join the European Union along with Bulgaria and Romania in 2007.
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The EU Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with Croatia came into force Tuesday (1 February), six weeks before the expected start of membership talks on 17 March.
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Croatia started building a coastal  bridge in the southern Adriatic on Wednesday despite protests  from neighboring Bosnia, which has threatened to launch a  lawsuit to stop it.
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REINE, Norway  - "It's as if the Earth ends with these islands," says Bogumil Lewandowski, a Polish construction worker living on Norway's Lofoten Islands, north of the Arctic Circle.
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Travel: Is Croatia's beautiful Dalmatian coast the next big sailing holiday hotspot, asks Jack Arnott.
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Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said Monday his country hoped to complete entry talks with the European Union in 2007.
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ZAGREB, Croatia -- President Stipe Mesic of Croatia, who is credited with moving this former Yugoslav country closer to the West, overwhelmingly won a second term yesterday.
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The Albanian parliament passed a resolution Thursday to allow the country to join a peacekeeping mission of the European Union (EU) in Bosnia, which takes over responsibilities from NATO in December.
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The US peacekeeping mission in Bosnia comes to an end, a week before Nato hands its peace mission over to the EU.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world's largest  peace-time relief effort zeroed in on remote northern areas of  Indonesia's Sumatra island where possibly hundreds of thousands  of tsunami survivors have yet to receive aid.
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Having met my old friend, Serbias Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, and the countrys President, Boris Tadic, in the last week of January, I can confirm that the land of my birth is both the most threatened and ...
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MITROVICA, Serbia  - There are some new faces in the Serb-controlled slice of northern Kosovo, the breakaway province where 2 million Albanians will declare independence from Serbia within days.
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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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Croatia starts building a coastal bridge that will allow motorists to skirt Bosnia - but Bosnia objects.
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Ivo Sanader becomes the first Croatian leader to visit Serbia-Montenegro since the republics were at war.
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European leaders celebrated the end of border controls along a line stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic on Friday as many of the European Union's newest members joined the EU's passport-free zone.