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Europe - AP U.S. Criticizes Danube Canal Project WASHINGTON - The State Department criticized Ukraine on Monday for pushing ahead with a shipping canal project along the Danube River despite an international outcry over the possible environmental consequences. Spokesman Adam Ereli said the Bush administration had publicly criticized the project in May as it was getting under way. Since then, "construction has continued unabated on the canal," Ereli said, noting that protests have come from governments of Germany, Romania and the European Union (news - web sites), as well as the World Conservation Union and the World Wildlife Fund. "We...

The History Channel is going to air a new historical series entitled DECISIVE BATTLES including some classic wars between ancient Persian armies and Roman and Greek ones. The History Channel goes on location to the actual battlefields and integrates cutting-edge videogame technology to bring history and imagination together in the new series DECISIVE BATTLES. The half-hour series DECISIVE BATTLES premieres Friday, July 23 at 9-9:30pm ET/PT. The series is hosted by Matthew Settle (Band of Brothers) on location at the ancient battlefields and features expert commentary from the world©s foremost historians. DECISIVE BATTLES is unlike any series The History Channel...

Shrinking Danube Unveils WWII Relics Fri, Aug 22, 2003 By EUGENE BRCIC, Associated Press Writer Children play with the remains of a German Kubelwagen, a military vehicle from WWII, pulled out of the Danube river, in the village of Batina, northeastern Croatia, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003. Record-breaking droughts in Croatia are exposing bits of World War II history as receding Danube River waters reveal evidence of battles between the retreating Germans and the advancing Soviets. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) BATINA, Croatia - As the mass of tangled iron emerged from the water, wide-eyed townspeople marveled at the catch, a World War...

PRAHOVO, Serbia-Montenegro -- Europe's worst drought in years has pushed the River Danube to its lowest level in more than a century, revealing German warships sunk to slow advancing Soviet forces in World War II. As the Danube's depth at this remote spot in eastern Serbia fell to levels not seen since records began in 1888, the wreckage of an old battleship slowly emerged last week above the surface by the Romanian border. "You see, when Germans make something it's for eternity," said fisherman Dragan Curovic, carefully navigating his boat down the river toward the rusty remains of the ship...

PRAHOVO, Serbia and Montenegro, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Europe's worst drought in years has pushed the mighty river Danube to its lowest level in more than a century, revealing German warships sunk to slow advancing Soviet forces in World War Two. As the Danube's depth at this remote spot in eastern Serbia fell to levels not seen since records began in 1888, the wreckage of an old battle ship last week slowly emerged above the surface by the Romanian border. "You see, when Germans make something it's for eternity," said fisherman Dragan Curovic, carefully navigating his boat down the wide...

The Danube Transformed: From River of Blood to River of Hope By RICHARD BERNSTEIN DONAUESCHINGEN, Germany — It begins here — or at least the people here say it does — as a spring bubbling up from beneath a stone urn beneath the walls of the white and yellow St. John's Church. After flowing for a short distance under the garden of the Fürstenberg Castle it pours, at a rate of about 20 gallons per second, into another stream, the Brigach, flowing nearby. Or perhaps it does not begin here. "There exists envy on the part of other locations," the...