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Day: December 14, 2012

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Geminid meteor shower peaks on December 14

December 14, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

The Geminid meteor shower, one of the most reliable and intensive of the major annual showers observable in the northern

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Bulgaria News Sport 

Four Bulgarian football players charged in illegal betting row

December 14, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian police arrested 12 football players from two Bourgas clubs for alleged involvement in an illegal betting ring on December

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Bulgaria News 

Sofia among places with record-low temperatures as chill grips Bulgaria

December 14, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian capital city Sofia recorded a record-low temperature for the day on the morning of December 14 2012 of 13.6

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian prisons boss fired for ‘lacking initiative’

December 14, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Justice Minister Diana Kovacheva has fired prisons chief Dimitar Dimitrov for lacking initiative, she told a news conference. Kovacheva

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Bulgaria and Serbia to sign memorandum on gas interconnector pipeline project

December 14, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dačić are to sign a memorandum of understanding on December

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News World 

Susan Rice withdraws from consideration for US secretary of state

December 14, 2012 Dan Robinson of VOANews

President Barack Obama has accepted the decision of his United Nations ambassador, Susan Rice, to withdraw from consideration to replace

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Europe News Perspectives 

Romania’s election – hard figures and a hard future

December 14, 2012June 2, 2013 Alex Bivol Romania

Romania boasts the largest administrative building in the world, the Parliament Palace that is home to its bicameral parliament –

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Bulgaria News 

Everything you always wanted to know about sex and Bulgarians, but…oh, never mind

December 14, 2012November 22, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

If you have a Bulgarian wife or girlfriend (preferably not both, for the sake of morality and the work ethic)

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Europe News 

Treasury minister calls for dismissal of CEO of Poland’s troubled flagship airline LOT

December 14, 2012 The Warsaw Voice

Poland’s Treasury Ministry expects ailing state airline PLL LOT’s supervisory board to make the CEO accountable for the current situation,

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