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Day: January 22, 2013

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Israel election: Exit polls show reverse for Netanyahu’s Likud, but with strong chance of victory in forming next governing coalition

January 22, 2013January 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud-Yisrael Beteinu has shed support, according to exit polls after the January 22 2013

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Europe News 

Prosecutors try to pin 1996 murder of lawmaker on Tymoshenko

January 22, 2013 Katya Gorchinskaya of The Kyiv Post

Amid rising speculation that she is in ill health and is not being allowed to properly consult with her lawyers,

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s Council for Electronic Media criticises broadcast coverage of Dogan incident

January 22, 2013January 23, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Council for Electronic Media, the statutory body charged with overseeing the country’s electronic media, has criticised the broadcast media’s

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News World 

New evidence of ancient lake on Mars

January 22, 2013January 23, 2013 VOANews

A NASA orbiter flying around Mars is showing evidence of an ancient underground-fed lake at the bottom of a crater,

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria Finance Ministry denies information request on civil servants’ bonuses

January 22, 2013 Alex Bivol

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has denied a request filed under the Access to Public Information Act to disclose any data on

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Bulgaria News People 

Bulgarian President hosts first ‘council of presidents’ meeting

January 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev hosted the first meeting of the “council of presidents”, an informal meeting with his predecessors, on

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church decides on new check into Sofia electoral college members for Patriarch election

January 22, 2013January 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

In the latest twist in the process of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church choosing a new head to succeed the late

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s opposition socialists, boosted by referendum campaign, narrow gap with ruling GERB – poll

January 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Ahead of Bulgaria’s January 27 2013 referendum on nuclear energy, the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party – which is leading the

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Bulgaria News 

Sofia court remands attacker of Bulgaria’s Dogan in custody

January 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Sofia Regional Court ordered on January 22 2013 that Oktai Enimehmedov, the man witnessed by television viewers and hundreds of

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