The Yugoslav statesman Marshal Tito (born 1892) became president of Yugoslavia in 1953. He directed the rebuilding of a Yugoslavia devastated in World War II and the welding of Yugoslavia's different ...
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_ CAPITAL: Belgrade, population 1.7 million._ GEOGRAPHY: Located in Europe's southeast, Serbia has a population of 9 million, including 2 million in its southern, mostly ethnic Albanian-populated p...
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Zagreb (dpa) - Grandchildren of the late Yugoslav president Josip
Broz Tito won exclusive rights to his increasingly profitable name,
which has become a brand in the region,...
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BELGRADE, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Part of the Blue Train used by
late communist dictator Josip Broz Tito to tour Yugoslavia,
receive world leaders and royalty, and which carried his body to
Belgrade in...
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Jan 7 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on January 14 since 1900: 1943 - Allied leaders met in Casablanca to agree on a
strategy for ending World War Two and to d...
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Today is Sunday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2007. There are 351 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 14, 1784, the United States ratified a peace treaty with England, ending the...
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Descendants of Martin Luther King and Mohandas K. Gandhi joined others Friday in offering their thoughts on solving some of the world's most intractable problems.King's daughter said the key to pro...
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Jan 31 (Reuters) - Pro-Western Serbian President Boris Tadic
faces nationalist challenger Tomislav Nikolic on Sunday in an
election that will decide Serbia's attitude to the West after
the imminen...
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LANCOVO, Slovenia, Oct 22 (Reuters) - After digging for two
hours in a chilly forest clearing, the workers had their
evidence: bones and the soil-covered, blackened remnant of a
shoe confirmed thi...
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(Bernd Debusmann is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed
are his own) By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The provenance of the famous
quote is in dispute but the thinking beh...
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BELGRADE, Dec 18 (Reuters) - When Serbia's leaders appeal to
the United Nations on Wednesday to block independence for its
breakaway Kosovo province, it will be a plea based on history,
emotion an...
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Marshal Tito
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