Israel-Syria talks a historic opportunity -- US
Israeli and Syrian leaders begin open-ended peace talks in the United States that US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called, ``a huge historic opportunity.''



Croatian voters have choice of 35 parties in parliamentary polls
Croatian voters were called to the polls on Monday morning to elect new representatives to the Sabor or Lower House of parliament.



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On his first day of office in the Kremlin, after assuming the duty of acting President, last week, Vladimir Putin fired former Russian President Boris Yeltsin's controversial younger daughter Tatyana Dyachenko.



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