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Day: October 23, 2012

Business Europe News 

Bulgaria loses ground in World Bank’s Doing Business report

October 23, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria fell two spots in the World Bank’s annual Doing Business report, ranking 66th out of 195 countries surveyed, losing

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Bulgaria News 

Power cut to trolley bus lines in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv

October 23, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Electricity distribution firm EVN Bulgaria has cut power to the trolley bus lines in Bulgaria’s second-largest city Plovdiv after the

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Leisure 

Depeche Mode confirm May 2013 gig in Sofia

October 23, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Depeche Mode, the band that put Bulgaria back on the map as a tour destination for big-name artists in 2006,

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgarians exploiting Greek system to get higher pensions – report

October 23, 2012October 23, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Thousands of Bulgarians have applied to receive retirement benefits in Greece, paying local residents to acquire address registration and bribing

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Sport 

Bulgaria to host 2013 golf World Match Play Championship

October 23, 2012October 23, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria will host its first European Tour golf event in 2013, when the Volvo Match Play Championship will be held

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Bulgaria Business News 

Reactor at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear plant taken offline

October 23, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear power plant took one of its nuclear reactors offline on October 23 after mechanical failure shut down

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Budget cannot afford child subsidy hikes – minister

October 23, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

A day after hundreds of people held protest rallies throughout Bulgaria demanding increased state subsidies for children, Labour and Social

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Europe News 

Votes for sale: Some look to cash in on Sunday’s Ukrainian election

October 23, 2012October 23, 2012 Oksana Grytsenko of The Kyiv Post

Election Day is on Sunday, but it feels more like Christmas in some of Ukraine’s districts. Yury Kruk, a Party

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News World 

Italian scientists convicted of not warning of earthquake

October 23, 2012October 23, 2012 VOANews

An Italian court on Monday convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter for underestimating the risks of a killer earthquake

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