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Year: 2012

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US scientists: clear evidence Mars had flowing water

September 28, 2012September 28, 2012 VOANews

U.S. scientists say pictures sent back from the Curiosity probe on Mars show clear evidence that water — essential for

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

Bulgaria joins in European Researchers’ Night on September 28

September 28, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Researchers’ Night takes place on September 28 2012 in 300 cities all over Europe – including seven Bulgarian cities. The

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Bulgaria Business News Perspectives 

Belene: an unfinished play of indeterminate length

September 28, 2012June 2, 2013 Alex Bivol Belene, energy, nuclear

Bulgaria’s autumn political drama season got off to a relatively quiet start, a calm before the storm of debates stirred

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Europe News 

Skopje issues call on Macedonia name dispute at UN General Assembly

September 28, 2012September 28, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Macedonian president Gjorge Ivanov called for closer co-operation with Greece to

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Europe News 

Further austerity measures specified in Spain’s budget

September 28, 2012May 22, 2013 Caroline Arbour VOANews

The Spanish government presented its 2013 budget Thursday, detailing spending cuts for ministries, new taxes and reforms that total about

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Bulgaria Leisure News Perspectives 

Sofia raises ‘Capital of Culture’ stakes by promising four new museums by end of 2013

September 28, 2012September 28, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The contest among several Bulgarian cities to be named one of Europe’s capitals of culture in 2019 is a strange

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Bulgaria News 

Prosecutors’ case sapped by witness testimony in Bulgarian radical Islam suit

September 27, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Witnesses in the case against 13 people accused of preaching radical Islam in Bulgaria took the stand on September 27,

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission names BCCI management members who worked for communist-era State Security

September 27, 2012September 27, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body empowered by law to investigate and name people who worked with the country’s communist-era State

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Business Europe News 

Banking union plans irk Czech Republic

September 27, 2012May 22, 2013 Adela Zabrazna for The Prague Post

The European Union’s single currency zone may have avoided collapse by green-lighting key stabilisation and oversight mechanisms, but an ongoing

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