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Day: July 6, 2012

Europe News 

Romanian parliament suspends president, impeachment referendum to follow

July 6, 2012July 6, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Romania’s bicameral parliament voted late on July 6 to suspend the country’s president, Traian Basescu, with 256 votes in favour

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News World 

Call for more sanctions on Syria as top Assad general departs

July 6, 2012July 6, 2012 VOANews

A group of over 100 nations pressing for an end to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s rule has called for “broader

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Bulgaria News World 

At Friends of Syrian People meeting, Bulgaria joins call for tougher sanctions against Assad regime

July 6, 2012July 6, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Full responsibility for the violence in Syria lies with the regime and the Syrian people are put into a position

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgarians rarely marry foreigners, statistics show

July 6, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria ranked at the tail end of European statistics on intermarriage with foreign nationals, the European Union’s statistics bureau Eurostat

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Vratsa and around – the road less travelled

July 6, 2012July 6, 2012 Hristina Dimitrova

If you don’t know much about Vratsa, rest assured that you’re not the only one; it is way off the

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Bulgaria News 

Plovdiv building of Bulgaria’s ‘Banitsa Bandit’ searched for missing 1.5M leva

July 6, 2012July 6, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Investigators searched the basement of the apartment building of Bulgaria’s ‘Banitsa Bandit’, Georgi Enev, on July 6 2012 in a

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News World 

Computer virus could cut Internet access for 250 000 PCs worldwide – FBI

July 6, 2012July 6, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

About 250 000 computers worldwide still carried a computer virus that would cut their Internet access on July 9 if

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