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Day: June 5, 2013

Leisure 

‘The Portrait’ at the Museum Gallery of Modern Art

June 5, 2013June 11, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The Museum Gallery of Modern Art in Sofia currently is showing an exhibition entitled “The Portrait”, a reflection on one

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President opposes backtrack on smoking ban

June 5, 2013June 7, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev, smoking

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has spoken out against a backtrack on the country’s full ban on smoking in enclosed public

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s new socialist government purges more senior officials

June 5, 2013June 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Plamen Oresharski

The head of Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulation Commission (SEWRC), the head of the Public Financial Inspection Agency and

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Europe 

Flood Watch Budapest: Class 1 Weather warning issued for June 5

June 5, 2013 The Budapest Times Hungary

The Hungarian weather service (OMSZ) has issued a Class 1 weather warning for torrential rain on the afternoon of June

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament approves temporary scale-back of MP salaries

June 5, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s lawmakers passed a motion on June 5 to scale back their own salaries to their 2009 levels. Starting June

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Leisure 

Romania hosting world wine congress from June 2 to 7

June 5, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Bucharest is hosting the 36th world wine and vine congress, attended by 550 participants from 44 countries, 45 years after

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Europe 

Flood waters in Central Europe sweep towards eastern Germany

June 5, 2013June 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia

The surging flood waters that have caused 12 deaths and extensive damage across Central Europe are sweeping north and east

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Europe 

Several EU countries resist UK push to blacklist Hezbollah

June 5, 2013June 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas terrorist attack

Several European Union countries reportedly raised questions over the evidence linking Hezbollah to the July 2012 bombing of a bus

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Europe 

Police, protesters clash as Turkey protests continue

June 5, 2013June 5, 2013 VOANews Turkey

Police in Turkey have used tear gas and water cannons on protesters who continue to gather to speak out against

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