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Month: July 2012

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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Bulgaria News World 

Ahead of Paris gathering of Friends of Syria, Bulgaria offers to host next meeting

July 5, 2012July 5, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Representatives of more than 90 countries and of the Syrian opposition are to gather in Paris on July 6 2012

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian authorities say Vitosha blaze contained – again

July 5, 2012July 5, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov became the latest public official on July 5 to declare that the forest fire on

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Bulgaria News 

More than half of Bulgarians see situation in country as ‘unbearable’ – poll

July 5, 2012July 5, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

More than half of Bulgarians polled in a survey in May 2012 saw the situation in the country as “unbearable”

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