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Month: January 2013

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Poland’s LOT to seek Dreamliner compensation from Boeing

January 18, 2013January 18, 2013 The Warsaw Voice

Poland’s national airline LOT will seek compensation from Boeing Co. after most of the maker’s flagship 787 Dreamliner passenger jets

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Bulgaria News 

Protests in Sofia against construction at the coast as debate intensifies on future of Bulgaria’s Black Sea

January 18, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff beaches

An estimated more than 2000 people joined in a January 17 2013 protest in Sofia against construction along Bulgaria’s Black

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Bulgaria Business Europe News World 

Euro zone’s debt crisis and austerity policies continue to tamp down growth, UN report says

January 18, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The debt crisis of the euro zone, slowing external demand and high oil process continued to depress Europe, while austerity

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Bulgaria Business News Perspectives 

Sex, money, howls of corruption and influence-buying…it must be a Bulgarian business story

January 18, 2013January 31, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

It is not every day and everywhere that it is possible to claim a direct link between European Union operational

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Bulgaria News Perspectives World 

The terrorist attack on Israelis at Bulgaria’s Bourgas Airport – six months on: Updated

January 18, 2013June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas terrorist attack

Amid the frustration, speculation and enduring trauma in these past six months since the July 18 2012 suicide bomb terrorist

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Europe News 

Ready for round two in Czech presidential elections

January 18, 2013January 17, 2013 Jonathan Crane of The Prague Post

Arms raised and smiling for the cameras, Karel Schwarzenberg looked like a man who had just won a boxing match

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Leisure 

Film review: Django Unchained

January 18, 2013January 17, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Django Unchained is Quentin Tarantino’s love letter to the Western. It’s not a popular genre today, although the Coen brothers

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Christmas charity campaign raises two million leva

January 17, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Christmas charity has concluded its annual donation drive on January 17, saying that it has collected 2.04 million leva.

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Greek court upholds sentence against Bulgarian pilot in Helios Airways crash case

January 17, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

An appellate court in Greece has confirmed the 123-year imprisonment sentence against Yanko Stoimenov in connection with the 2005 Helios

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