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Month: November 2012

Europe News 

Greece sells bonds to avoid default on November 16

November 14, 2012May 22, 2013 VOANews

Cash-strapped Greece has raised the money it needs to help it avoid a default later this week, but says it

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarian PM coy on South Stream, gas deal talks ongoing

November 13, 2012June 2, 2013 Alex Bivol Boiko Borissov, energy, South Stream

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov did not confirm, on November 13, reports in Bulgarian language media that he would attend

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Bulgaria Europe News World 

Syrian unified opposition group gets welcome from EU, but awaits recognition, financial and military support

November 13, 2012May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

France, the United Kingdom and Bulgaria are among individual European Union countries that have added their statements to the EU’s

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s Sveshtari golden treasure goes on display November 14

November 13, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s National Archaeology Museum will display on November 14 the trove of golden artefacts found near the village of Sveshtari

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News World 

US congress reconvenes facing budget challenge

November 13, 2012November 13, 2012 VOANews

US lawmakers resume their work Tuesday facing the major task of finding an agreement on how to deal with $600

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarian annual inflation at 4.4 per cent in October

November 13, 2012November 13, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s year-on-year consumer price inflation was 4.4 per cent in October, receding from a 12-month high in September, when it

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Bulgaria News 

Record haul of contraband cigarettes in Bulgaria

November 13, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Customs officers in Sofia seized a consignment of contraband cigarettes of a record value of seven million leva (about 3.5

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The headquarters in Sofia of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgaria News 

Holy Synod to meet on Patriarch election preparations but Plovdiv Metropolitan to stay away for 40 days

November 13, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The Holy Synod, the governing body of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, is to meet on November 14 2012 to discuss

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Europe Leisure News 

EU puts year-long freeze on airline carbon tax

November 13, 2012May 22, 2013 VOANews

The European Union is putting a year-long freeze on a controversial rule that all airlines flying in and out of

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