Bulgaria's last 3 dancing bears freed
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After a lifetime of brutal treatment, including walking on burning embers, Bulgaria's last three dancing bears will get to rest their paws at a mountain sanctuary, in an apparent end to the centuries-old performance tradition in the Balkans.
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The number of grizzly bears with cubs in the Yellowstone area appears to be rebounding, which could bolster efforts to remove the animals from the endangered species list, biologists said Friday.
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The show is over: The Berlin zoo's fast-growing polar bear cub, Knut, won't be appearing anymore with the keeper who raised him.
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Three international workers held hostage in Afghanistan&#39;s capital, Kabul, for almost a month were freed today, the United Nations said.
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Three United Nations hostages have been freed after almost four weeks in captivity in Afghanistan, with kidnappers claiming that Taliban prisoners were due to be released in exchange.
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Three UN workers who were held hostage in Afghanistan for more than three weeks are apparently unharmed after being released Tuesday.
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Three foreign UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan were freed unharmed today, almost four weeks after they were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul.
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Three foreign UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan were freed unharmed Tuesday, almost four weeks after they were abducted at gunpoint on the streets
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Six foreign medics convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV were freed on Tuesday after a partnership deal between Tripoli and the European Union ended their eight-year ordeal.
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HAVANA -- Cuba said yesterday it was resuming formal ties with all of Europe, ending a deep freeze in relations following a 2003 crackdown on dissidents and the executions of three men who tried to hijack a ferry.
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HAVANA -- At least three dissidents arrested in a broad crackdown by the Cuban government last year were released Monday, according to friends, relatives and human rights activists.
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THE might of the French State was deployed yesterday to find and save a bear cub after hunters killed its mother, the last native she-bear in the Pyrenees.
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France suspended hunting in the western Pyrenees on Wednesday to save a bear cub orphaned when his mother, the last female bear native to the region, was killed by hunters earlier this week.
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Six foreign medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV were freed on Tuesday under a deal to improve Tripoli's ties with the European Union.
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Politics: 7 November 2004, Sunday. The last of the Bulgarian soldiers have left the base in Karbala, completing the unit's redeployment to Diwaniya.
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Three foreign United Nations workers kidnapped and held hostage in Afghanistan for three weeks were released, police and officials told AFP.
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Going back to school was made &quot;bearable&quot; for children in the village of Ramata in northern Latvia, when grown-ups let the youngsters cut class to watch a brown bear frolic near the town hall.