Hopes fade for missing Europeans
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At least 5,000 Europeans are still missing - most of them presumed dead - after the tsunami wrecked Thai resorts.
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The five Europeans who were freed after being kidnapped in Ethiopia are due to fly back to the UK.
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Anxious Europeans were flooding official hotlines in their home countries or calling embassies overseas in search of news of loved ones feared missing from the tidal wave disaster that swept Asia.
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Scandinavian countries are preparing themselves for national tragedies as realization dawns that most of the Europeans missing after the south Asian tsunami are from Sweden and Norway.
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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- They were hoping for a sporting miracle yesterday, only it didn't materialize. Now, American Ryder Cup players must hope for a diplomatic miracle.
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Albania is facing an unusual, if elusive, stumbling block to ever joining the European Union: very few people there seem to know where they live.
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Europe's papers today grapple with an empty handed WMD hunt, French occupation revisionism and Basque separatism
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About 1,000 Swedes are listed as missing, and that number adds to the confusion and angst.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 17 (IPS) - When Marek and his wife Ania, both unemployed  Polish nationals in their thirties, left their home country for  Denmark on May 1 -- the day of EU enlargement -- they hoped to  get dream jobs and start on a new life.
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Some EU members are hesitant to support the province's bid for independence after a UN resolution was dropped Friday. An informal group meets Wednesday.
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European travel companies were searching for missing customers and cancelling departures to areas devastated by the Asian tsunami on Wednesday as some experts predicted
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GENEVA -- In a few years train passengers will vanish into a tunnel just south of Zurich and emerge 30 minutes later blinking in southern European sunshine. They will have missed the Alpine views but shortened their journey to Italy by half.
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Scandinavians fumed at their  governments' initial lax response to Asia's tsunami disaster as  hopes dimmed on Thursday for some 5,000 foreign tourists,  mostly Europeans, still missing four days after the wall of  water hit.
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Many European leaders gasped with relief  on Monday after Poland's Kaczynski twins suffered an election  defeat that should swing the country's pro-Washington outlook  more towards Brussels.
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BALACIU, Romania  - Desperate parents are fleeing the poverty of Romania's countryside in search of work elsewhere in the European Union, leaving their children behind to be cared for by others.
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poor Balkan country, already struggling to stay on track in its drive to join the European Union. just three percent ahead of the centrist alliance of Liberal and Democrat parties.
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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.