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Day: August 3, 2012

News World 

NASA Mars rover will face harrowing descent, landing

August 3, 2012August 3, 2012 Suzanne Presto of VOANews

The U.S. space agency is preparing for its newest Mars rover, Curiosity, to touch down on the Red Planet on

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Bulgaria News 

Driving with daylights to become mandatory in Bulgaria

August 3, 2012August 3, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

New driving regulations mandating drivers to have daylights on at all times are expected to go into effect in the

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgaria, Romania not ready for Schengen this year – German minister

August 3, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria and Romania were not ready to join the Schengen visa-free travel area in 2012, German interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrich

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Bulgaria News 

Former Bourgas city councillor faces organised crime charges for illegal loans

August 3, 2012August 3, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

A former city councillor in Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Bourgas is facing criminal charges for allegedly heading an organised

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Europe News 

Slovak MPs abolish their immunity from prosecution

August 3, 2012August 2, 2012 Beata Balogova of The Slovak Spectator

In a rare expression of unanimity – albeit one that had previously eluded them for almost 20 years – Slovak

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Europe News World 

UN human rights experts call on countries to confront hatred, violence and discrimination against Roma

August 3, 2012August 2, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Two independent United Nations human rights experts issued a call on August 2 2012, Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day, to all

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Mario Draghi, President, European Central Bank, Frankfurt is captured during the session 'Europe's Economic Outlook' at the Annual Meeting 2012 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, Switzerland, January 27, 2012. Photo: World Economic Forum
Business Europe News 

ECB confident in euro, no new measures for now

August 3, 2012May 22, 2013 VOANews

The European Central Bank suggested it might buy the bonds of ailing eurozone economies like Spain and Italy on the

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