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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Two U.S. Army divisions will leave Cold War-era bases in Germany over the next decade, and the U.S. military will increase its presence in former Warsaw Pact countries under President George W. Bush's ...
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LONDON, May 24 -- Families forced to leave the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, to make way for a U.S. military base at Diego Garcia during the Cold War have won a key legal victory in their long struggle to return.
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JINCE, Czech Republic  - Once a frontline Soviet base, the Brdy military complex could host part of a planned U.S. anti-missile shield and local residents feel they are back in the firing line.
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The United States and Europe are  drifting further apart on security issues and the use of force  in the aftermath of the Iraq war, a major transatlantic opinion  survey released on Thursday showed.
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Holger Apfel sits underneath a map of Germany showing its 1937 borders, including territories lost to Poland after the war.
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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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Politics: 4 January 2005, Tuesday. The Bulgarian Kalotina Checkpoint at the Serbian border is in a completely different condition than it used to be, said Tuesday the Sofia District Governor Olimpi Katev.
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HRADEK NAD NISOU, Czech Republic -- For more than 60 years, this remote stretch of bottomland was one of the most closely guarded sectors of Central Europe.
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Rivers of ice at the Equator &#151; foretold in the 2nd century, found in the 19th &#151; are now melting away in this new century, returning to the realm of lore and fading photographs.
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Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a private museum is rebuilding a 200-meter section close to Checkpoint Charlie, the famous Cold War border crossing, to satisfy tourists who flock to the site.
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BAUMHOLDER, GERMANY AND DRAWSKO POMORSKIE, POLAND In Drawsko Pomorskie, a decaying Polish farm town nestled between the German border and the Baltic Sea, weary residents are finally feeling hopeful.
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COTTBUS - Former communist East Germany has been transformed for the better 15 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall even though big problems remain including high unemployment and a worrying tendency of voters to back extremist parties.
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Russia has restricted rights to such an extent that it has joined the countries that are not free for the first time since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Freedom House said Monday, marking Moscow's march away from the Western democracies it has embraced as diplomatic partners.
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Ever so slowly, countries that once made up the former Yugoslavia are reorienting themselves toward the West and its democratic institutions.
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BUDAPEST, Nov 23 (IPS) - Memories of the 'orange revolution' that  brought western-minded Viktor Yushchenko to the presidency are  slowly fading away as Ukraine returns to a more Russian friendly  foreign policy, without neglecting its western aspirations.