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Month: June 2013

Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s new cabinet ministers spell out plans

June 3, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Kristian Vigenin, Plamen Oresharski, Tsvetlin Yovchev

A more powerful State Agency for National Security, recruitment of civilians to act as “civil guards” to assist police, a

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Europe News 

Heavy flooding reaches Prague

June 3, 2013June 3, 2013 The Prague Post Czech Republic

Five people have been confirmed dead and four are missing as a result of the flooding that has devastated parts

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Europe Leisure News 

Poland’s Dreamliner back in service

June 3, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Poland’s LOT national airlines resumed commercial flights of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner on Saturday after over four months after the jets

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Europe News 

Prague braces for heavy floods

June 2, 2013June 4, 2013 The Prague Post Czech Republic

The Czech Republic government was set to hold an emergency meeting at 6pm on June 2 to address the impact

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Europe News 

One dead, four missing in floods in Czech Republic

June 2, 2013June 3, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Czech Republic

A woman died in Třebenice outside Prague on June 2 when her house collapsed because of flooding and four people

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Bulgaria News 

Protest in Sofia against ‘Oligarchski’ government

June 2, 2013June 4, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Plamen Oresharski

Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia saw a protest on June 2 against the new socialist Plamen Oresharski government, dubbed “Oligarchski” by

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Europe News 

Ashton expresses EU’s ‘deep concern’ at violence in Turkey

June 2, 2013June 4, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Turkey

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is expressing deep concern at the violence that occurred in Istanbul and some

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Europe News 

Anti-government protests subside in Turkey

June 2, 2013June 2, 2013 VOANews Turkey

Residents of Istanbul and Ankara woke up to a quiet morning Sunday as demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister

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Bulgaria Europe News 

37 arrested in Bulgaria in operation in 17 EU countries against scrap metal gangs

June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Thirty-seven people were arrested in Bulgaria as part of a two-day operation in 17 European Union countries against organised metal

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