Argo wins Academy Award for best picture
Argo, the film about the Iranian hostage crisis, won the top prize at the Academy Awards Sunday in Los Angeles,
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Month: February 2013
Centre-right candidate Anastasiades wins second round of Cyprus presidential election
Nicos Anastasiades, a 66-year-old centre-right leader, won the second round of presidential elections in Cyprus on February 24 2013 with
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Bulgaria’s new Patriarch offers public prayer for unity of nation
The newly-elected Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Neofit, offered a public prayer at his enthronement ceremony at Sofia’s Alexander
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Many thousands protest in Bulgarian cities as business, unions join call for Grand National Assembly
Tens of thousands of Bulgarians rallied in street protests in Sofia and several other cities and towns on February 24
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Bulgaria’s day of protests, a President, priests and a Patriarch
To be at the centre of Sofia on Sunday February 24 2013 was to be at the centre of a
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Neofit of Rousse elected Patriarch of Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Metropolitan Neofit of Rousse was elected as the new Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on February 24, following two
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Parliamentary elections possible between mid-April and mid-May, Bulgarian President Plevneliev says
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev, speaking after collective consultations with leaders of most of the parties in Parliament, said that it
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Bulgaria steps closer to caretaker government, protests continue
All political parties of any significance in Bulgaria’s Parliament have now said that they want the formation of a caretaker
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EU reports progress against second-hand smoke, says more to be done
Protection from second hand smoke has improved considerably in the European Union, according to a European Commission (EC) report on
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