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Month: April 2013

Sport 

Bulgaria’s Dimitrov wins against Tipsarevic at Monte-Carlo Masters

April 16, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Grigor Dimitrov

Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov notched his second career win against a player ranked in the ATP Tour top 10 on April

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s credit millionaires with State Security links to be identified before May elections

April 16, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

The names of Bulgaria’s credit millionaires with links to the country’s communist-era State Security and military intelligence secret services are

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Bulgaria News World 

Bulgarian President joins in condemning Boston bomb attacks, offers condolences

April 16, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has condemned the bomb attacks in Boston that cost three lives and led to more than

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian PM, Prosecutor-General speak on eavesdropping controversy

April 16, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Marin Raykov

The political furore unleashed by the findings of an investigation by a team of senior prosecutors into alleged illegal electronic

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Bulgaria Business Europe News 

Monthly inflation in EU was 0.9 per cent in March, -0.4% in Bulgaria

April 16, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat, macroeconomic indicators

Annual inflation in Bulgaria was 1.6 per cent in March 2013 while monthly inflation was -0.4 per cent, according to

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian beekeepers continue protests against pesticides

April 16, 2013April 16, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Beekeepers in Bulgaria are continuing protests to call for a moratorium on the use of pesticides hazardous to bees, with

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Bulgaria News 

Borissov and GERB back Tsvetanov in eavesdropping controversy

April 16, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Boiko Borissov and his centre-right GERB party, facing volleys of calls for election campaign chief and former interior minister Tsvetan

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News World 

Boston Marathon explosions kill three, wound dozens

April 16, 2013 VOANews

At least three people were killed and more than 140 injured Monday after two nearly simultaneous bomb blasts went off

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News World 

Two dead, 22 injured in Boston Marathon explosions

April 15, 2013April 16, 2013 VOANews

At least two people were killed and 22 others injured after two apparent bomb explosions struck near the finish line

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