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Flight Attendant Survived 33,000 Feet Fall With No Parachute. Read Vesna Vulovic's Story
Vesna Vulovic was temporarily paralysed from the waist down by the fall, but she never surrendered to despair.
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Who's Who In The Race To Be UN Chief
An ex-president, three former prime ministers, several ex-foreign ministers and even a part-time poet are all campaigning to become the next UN secretary-general.
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First Migrants Reach Slovenia After Hungary Closes Croatia Border
Slovenia received today the first buses transporting migrants from Croatia, which diverted the human flow after Hungary sealed its border and cut off a main transit route for tens of thousands trying to reach northern Europe.
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Croatian Hostage Handed Over to Islamic State by 'Bandits': Minister
A Croatian hostage whom the Islamic State group claims to have beheaded is thought to have been kidnapped by a criminal gang in Egypt before being turned over to the jihadists, Croatia's foreign minister said Thursday.
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Islamic State Says in Broadcast That It Killed Croatian Hostage
The militant group Islamic State said in an audio broadcast today that its Egyptian affiliate had killed a Croatian hostage, a day after a photograph of a beheaded corpse purported to be that of the Croat was circulated by the group's supporters.
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International Court of Justice Absolves Croatia, Serbia of Genocide
The United Nations' highest court ruled on Tuesday that neither Croatia nor Serbia had committed genocide against each other's populations during the wars that accompanied the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
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Australian Open: Clinical Serena Williams sweeps into second round
The American world number one, the overwhelming favourite to win a sixth Melbourne crown, wasted little energy in swatting aside the young Australian 6-2, 6-1 in under an hour to set up a second round clash with Serbia's Vesna Dolonc.
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Mona Barthel advances to 3rd round at Aegon Classic
In other second-round matches, fourth-seeded Tamira Paszek of Austria lost to American Alison Riske, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, and eighth-seeded Urszula Radwanska of Poland was beaten by Croatia's Donna Vekic, 6-3, 6-2.
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Kudryavtseva advances at Tashkent Open
Defending champion Alla Kudryavtseva advanced to the second round of the Tashkent Open, beating fellow Russian Vesna Dolonts 6-2, 7-5 on Tuesday.
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Straight-sets opening win for Venus
Two-time champion Venus Williams reached the second round of the US Open tennis championships on Monday with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Russian Vesna Dolonts.
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Another easy day for Schiavone
Defending champion Francesca Schiavone had another easy day at the French Open, advancing to the third round with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Vesna Dolonts on Wednesday.
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Flight Attendant Survived 33,000 Feet Fall With No Parachute. Read Vesna Vulovic's Story
Vesna Vulovic was temporarily paralysed from the waist down by the fall, but she never surrendered to despair.
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Who's Who In The Race To Be UN Chief
An ex-president, three former prime ministers, several ex-foreign ministers and even a part-time poet are all campaigning to become the next UN secretary-general.
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First Migrants Reach Slovenia After Hungary Closes Croatia Border
Slovenia received today the first buses transporting migrants from Croatia, which diverted the human flow after Hungary sealed its border and cut off a main transit route for tens of thousands trying to reach northern Europe.
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Croatian Hostage Handed Over to Islamic State by 'Bandits': Minister
A Croatian hostage whom the Islamic State group claims to have beheaded is thought to have been kidnapped by a criminal gang in Egypt before being turned over to the jihadists, Croatia's foreign minister said Thursday.
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Islamic State Says in Broadcast That It Killed Croatian Hostage
The militant group Islamic State said in an audio broadcast today that its Egyptian affiliate had killed a Croatian hostage, a day after a photograph of a beheaded corpse purported to be that of the Croat was circulated by the group's supporters.
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International Court of Justice Absolves Croatia, Serbia of Genocide
The United Nations' highest court ruled on Tuesday that neither Croatia nor Serbia had committed genocide against each other's populations during the wars that accompanied the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
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Australian Open: Clinical Serena Williams sweeps into second round
The American world number one, the overwhelming favourite to win a sixth Melbourne crown, wasted little energy in swatting aside the young Australian 6-2, 6-1 in under an hour to set up a second round clash with Serbia's Vesna Dolonc.
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Mona Barthel advances to 3rd round at Aegon Classic
In other second-round matches, fourth-seeded Tamira Paszek of Austria lost to American Alison Riske, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, and eighth-seeded Urszula Radwanska of Poland was beaten by Croatia's Donna Vekic, 6-3, 6-2.
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Kudryavtseva advances at Tashkent Open
Defending champion Alla Kudryavtseva advanced to the second round of the Tashkent Open, beating fellow Russian Vesna Dolonts 6-2, 7-5 on Tuesday.
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Straight-sets opening win for Venus
Two-time champion Venus Williams reached the second round of the US Open tennis championships on Monday with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Russian Vesna Dolonts.
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Another easy day for Schiavone
Defending champion Francesca Schiavone had another easy day at the French Open, advancing to the third round with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Vesna Dolonts on Wednesday.
