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Year: 2012

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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Europe News 

Kosovo police, nationalists clash in Pristina, more than 20 hurt

October 23, 2012 VOANews

Kosovo police have used tear gas and pepper spray to break up a protest in the capital, Pristina, by stone-throwing

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News World 

Final US presidential debate displays differences on foreign policy

October 23, 2012 Dan Robinson of VOANews

In their final debate before the November 6 U.S. presidential election, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney battled

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Bulgaria News 

Masked duo robs bank in Bulgarian capital Sofia

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

Two armed men robbed a branch of Allianz Bank in Bulgarian capital Sofia on October 23, taking about 60 000

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