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Year: 2012

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Greek Olympian disqualified after racist tweet

July 26, 2012July 26, 2012 VOANews

A member of the Greek Olympic team has been expelled from the Olympic games for a posting a racist comment

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgaria, Switzerland to update double-taxation treaty

July 26, 2012July 26, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on July 25 the draft of the updated treaty with Switzerland on avoiding double taxation of income

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian MPs reject motion of no confidence

July 26, 2012July 26, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Parliament voted down on July 25 a motion of no confidence in the Government of Prime Minister Boiko Borissov,

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Bulgaria News World 

Israeli security consultant: ‘Security at Bourgas airport failed’

July 25, 2012 Alex Bivol

The security at Bourgas airport, where a terrorist attack the took the lives of five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian

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EBRD lowers Bulgaria’s 2013 economic growth forecast

July 25, 2012July 25, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the international financial institution that is one of the largest investors in

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Bulgaria News World 

Bulgaria condemns spate of bomb attacks in Iraq

July 25, 2012July 26, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria categorically condemns the series of bombings and attacks in Iraq in recent days in which more than 100 Iraqi

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Europe News World 

UN chief Ban’s Balkans odyssey

July 25, 2012July 25, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The Macedonia name dispute, relations between Serbia and Kosovo and “bridges” to a European future have all been on the

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian MPs vote new Forestry Act amendments

July 25, 2012July 25, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Parliament voted at first reading the new amendments to the Forestry Act on July 25, replacing the controversial set

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Europe News 

Polish MPs reject controversial bill on civil unions

July 25, 2012July 25, 2012 The Warsaw Voice

Polish deputies Tuesday rejected proposed legislation to introduce civil unions, a decision welcomed by Poland’s powerful conservatives, who oppose same-sex

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