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Is the party over for Belgrade’s club scene on the Danube?

Raft houses, known as ‘splavs’, became synonymous with the hedonistic nightclub scene in Serbia’s capital. Now they are being cleared from the river to make way for luxury flats, bars and shops

The Guardian - UK

Serbia Tackles Sunken Nazi Fleet In The Danube

A Serbian operation to clear a fleet of sunken Nazi warships from the Danube will bring relief to vessels struggling to navigate the waters, even if local fishermen will lose out.

International Business Times

Splashing in the Seine, diving in the Danube: the drive to make cities swimmable

Campaigners and architects around the world are turning previously polluted rivers and harbours into the perfect places for a refreshing dip. So will we soon be swimming to work?

The Guardian - UK

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Belgrade's Sewage Problem Festers Despite Pledges

The sight of ducklings struggling to swim in Belgrade's stinking sewage-choked rivers is one residents hope a long-promised wastewater treatment plant will make a thing of the past.

International Business Times

Search for survivors after cruise boat involved in crash on Danube River in Hungary

It comes five years after at least 27 people were killed in Budapest when a cruise boat collided with a smaller tourist vessel

The Independent UK

Two dead and five missing after boat collision on River Danube in Hungary

Police found the bodies of a man and woman near a shore in Veroce

Evening Standard

Fatal Boat Collision On Danube River In Hungary

Tragic boat collision on Danube River in Hungary leaves two dead and five missing. Efforts ongoing to locate missing individuals. Criminal proceedings init...

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Three decades on, Croatia's Vukovar bears invisible scars of war

The Croatian city of Vukovar, on the banks of the Danube, has a painful past. Located on the border with Serbia, it was the scene of the first major battle in the 1990s Balkan wars. Four years before the genocide in Srebrenica and eight years before the war in Kosovo,…

France 24

Serbian authorities help evacuate cows and horses stuck on a river island in cold weather

Serbian authorities have started evacuating nearly 200 animals that have been stranded on a river island for weeks and were facing hunger and cold as temperatures dropped across the country

The Independent UK

Hungary hosts international training for military divers who salvage unexploded munitions

Military divers from Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Lithuania have participated in an international training exercise in Budapest, Hungary, working in flooded underground mines, lakes and caves and in the rushing Danube River

The Independent UK

Rail route of the month: along the Franz Josef railway from Prague to Vienna

Our slow travel expert explores a historic central European rail route served by rural trains operating at a pace that would have been familiar to the Habsburgs

The Guardian - UK

9 of the best winter cruise holidays for winter sun, city breaks and the Northern Lights

Set sail to the sun kissed Caribbean, frosty Arctic Circle and Europe’s charming Christmas markets this winter

The Independent UK

‘The war had come to us too’: how Ukraine’s Danube ports became vital hubs – and targets

With Odesa out of action, Izmail and Reni are now the only places grain can reliably be exported

The Guardian - UK

Proximity of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Danube ports stirs fear in NATO member Romania

The discovery of drone debris on Romanian territory this week has left some local residents fearing that the war in neighboring Ukraine could spread into their country, as Russian forces bombard Ukrainian ports just across the Danube River from NATO-member Romania

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Russia launches fourth drone attack in five days on Ukrainian food exports

Bombings around Izmail, main port along Danube river, lasted three hours and injured two truck drivers, Odesa governor says

The Independent UK

NATO member Romania says it has found drone pieces from Russian attacks in Ukraine on its territory

Romania’s defense minister says that pieces, apparently of a drone from Russia’s recent attacks on Ukraine’s port on the Danube River, have been found on the territory of his country

The Guardian - UK

Nato pledges ‘strong solidarity’ with Romania over likely Russian drone debris

Romanian president deplores potential ‘serious violation of sovereignty and territorial integrity of Romania, a Nato ally’

Radio France Internationale

Budapest world athletics championships: Five things we learned on Day 1

Modesty becomes a triple world record holder to the point of saintliness but the acoustics inject an air of the diabolical into the sparkling new stadium on the banks of the Danube where the cameras add a touch of evil.

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Radio France Internationale

Budapest mall goes for gold with historic tales of athletic greats

“Witness the wonder” boasts the slogan for the nine-day extravaganza of striving and success at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. That encouragement could easily be applied to the dazzling array of memorabilia and historical detail at the Museum of World Athletics, tucked away on the third floor of…

Radio France Internationale

Budapest welcomes world of athletics to savour revamp on banks of Danube

Just over six years ago, a popular movement stymied plans for Budapest to enter a bid to stage the 2024 Olympic Games. Out of that surge against Viktor Orban's government came the Momentum political party.

The Guardian - UK

Rail route of the month: the drama of an Alpine epic from Zurich to Graz

This exhilarating, nine-hour journey trundles through the Swiss and Austrian Alps and soars to more than 1,000 metres above sea level as it crosses the Rhine-Danube watershed

Al Jazeera

Russian drone attack damages Ukraine Danube river port

Russian drones attacked a Ukrainian Danube river port and damaged grain silos and warehouses.

The Guardian - US

Turning food into a weapon: how Russia resorted to one of the oldest forms of warfare

With Russia blockading Ukraine’s eastern ports, an alternative route to the west is possible but faces serious problems

LiveScience

Ancient Roman boat from empire's frontier unearthed in Serbian coal mine

Coal miners found the remains of a Roman boat that likely supplied an ancient frontier city and military headquarters.

Radio France Internationale

France condemns Russian attacks on Ukraine's grain infrastructure

Russian drones on Wednesday damaged infrastructure at a Ukrainian port on the Danube, targeting facilities vital for grain shipments from Ukraine following the collapse of a key export arrangement.

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