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Month: December 2012

Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian traffic police start check-ups of car tyres after first snowfall

December 4, 2012December 4, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian traffic police said on December 4 2012 that they were carrying out checks whether car had winter snow tyres

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian police arrest 10 for alleged 50M leva tax fraud

December 4, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian anti-organised crime police, working together with the State Agency for National Security, have arrested 10 people who in the

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Bulgaria News 

4.6 Richter scale earth tremor on Bulgaria’s northern Black Sea coast

December 4, 2012December 4, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

An earthquake reported to have measured 4.6 on the Richter scale shook the towns of Kavarna, Balchik and Shabla on

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Bulgaria cannot yet say who ordered Bourgas Airport terrorist attack, Borissov says after talks with Obama

December 4, 2012June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas terrorist attack

The United States and Bulgaria have pledged to step up their co-operation in investigating the July suicide bomber terrorist attack

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Europe News 

Russia, Turkey resolve to find solution on Syria crisis

December 4, 2012June 2, 2013 Dorian Jones of VOANews Russia, Syria, Turkey

Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country is working with Turkey to resolve the ongoing crisis in Syria – an

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Europe News Perspectives World 

Russia Watch: Russia’s winter transport: From the troika to rubber tyres

December 4, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

It snowed in Russia last week. (Yawn. What else is new?) But Russia no longer is Dr. Zhivago country, a

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Europe News 

Jobbik could hold balance of power in Hungary in 2014

December 4, 2012 The Budapest Times

Pollster Tárki reported on Wednesday that the combined support for left-wing and liberal opposition parties would be sufficient for them

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Europe News 

Hungarian PM Orban vows to protect Jews and other minorities

December 4, 2012 VOANews

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban is vowing to protect all Hungarians against racial prejudice after an apparent anti-Semitic remark by

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Europe News World 

Nato approves Turkey’s request for missiles on Syria border

December 4, 2012June 2, 2013 VOANews Nato, Syria, Turkey

NATO on Tuesday agreed to deploy Patriot missiles to the Turkish border to help defend Turkey against threats from Syria.

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