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Day: May 9, 2013

Leisure 

Film review: Safe Haven

May 9, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Directors make a difference. This truism is made all the more obvious by the botched exercise in filmmaking that is

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Leisure 

Film review: The Call

May 9, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

One week after the pseudo-comedy The Identity Thief, in which a man decides to track down the thief who stole

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Business News World 

Global food prices increase for second straight month – FAO

May 9, 2013May 9, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

World food prices rose for a second straight month, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said on May 9

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgarian lorry drivers block border with Turkey, claim discrimination

May 9, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Turkey

Hundreds of Bulgarian lorry drivers blocked the two main checkpoints on the border with Turkey on May 9 in protest

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Sport 

Aston Villa, Bulgaria midfielder Petrov announces retirement

May 9, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Midfielder Stiliyan Petrov, the former Bulgarian national football team and Aston Villa football club captain, has announced his retirement from

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Bulgaria News 

‘The Cross in European Culture’ exhibition opens in Sofia on May 13

May 9, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

An exhibition entitled “The Cross in European Culture”, organised by the embassy of Ireland at the National Ethnographic Museum in

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Bulgaria News 

2013 Sofia Science Festival opens on May 9

May 9, 2013May 4, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, Sofia Science Festival

This year’s Sofia Science Festival is from May 9 to 12 in Oborishte Park in the centre of the Bulgarian

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