Mr.Mesic helped discourage nationalism and encouraged a shift to the West with his country's entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

The North Korean Central News Agency carried a statement from the country's Naval command,Thursday, accusing South Korea of sending warships into the North's territorial waters at least 10 times this week.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Years of disagreement between the North and the South finally burst into civil war in April of eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

The way was now open for the armies of the North to march into the heart of the Confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

He said the North must recognize the rights of southerners, especially the right to take slave property into territories of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

This,he felt,would throw fear into the people of the north and weaken the Union war effort.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Our idea was to explore the Rocky Mountains and west coast, perhaps go north into Canada and end up at North Western University in Illinois.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

All this water poured into Lake Pontchartrain on the north side of New Orleans.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

Hillary took a picture of Norgay. They looked out over the north side into Tibet for any signs that Mallory or Irvine had been there before them.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

In the North,many young men refused to be drafted into the Union army.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

It carried goods south into Mexico and north into the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Those factors made it very difficult for radar to detect the vessel before it crossed into North Korean waters.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

However,the zone has run into a series of serious complications amid worsening relations between North and South.

VOA: standard.2009.06.05

In the late semifinal, North Carolina took an 8-6 lead on a three-pointer from Wayne Ellington three minutes into the game and never looked back.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung said Thursday the fishing boat was towed into a North Korean port by a police boat early in the morning.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

Pyongyang says it may also prevent access into or out of a joint industrial complex in the North Korean city,Kaesong, potentially trapping hundreds of South Korean business managers there.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

It is also one of a number of cities in the north that erupted into protest after troops stormed the Red Shirt's Bangkok camp last week, part of a military crackdown that caused at least 50 deaths.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25