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Day: July 15, 2013

Europe 

Polish President calls for reconciliation over Volhynia massacre

July 15, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland, Ukraine

Deputies Friday rejected a resolution introduced by the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party to refer to the massacres of

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Europe 

Hungary: Holocaust payout delay solved

July 15, 2013 The Budapest Times Hungary

About $5.6 million (4.2 million euro) will be transferred to the Jewish Heritage of Hungary Public Endowment (Mazsök) as part

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World 

Faraway planet found to be same colour as Earth

July 15, 2013 VOANews final frontier

The Hubble Space Telescope has helped scientists determine the color of a planet outside of our Solar System for the first time.

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Perspectives 

The first days of the Oresharski Cabinet: ignorance or populism?

July 15, 2013May 10, 2024 Desislava Nikolova, Yavor Alexiev and Kaloyan Staykov, IME Plamen Oresharski

In a few short weeks, Plamen Oresharski’s government has undertaken a number of measures and unveiled policy plans that showcase

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Europe 

Greece facing new austerity protests

July 15, 2013 VOANews Greece

Greece is facing a new wave of austerity protests, this time by police and municipal workers. With sirens blaring, striking

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Plevneliev criticises cabinet security council appointee

July 15, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has said that he is “strongly worried” by the appointment of Boyan Chukov to head the

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Bulgaria 

Final stretch of Bulgaria’s Trakiya Motorway opened on July 15

July 15, 2013July 15, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff motorways

The final 34km stretch of Bulgaria’s Trakiya Motorway, which links capital city Sofia with the Black Sea city of Bourgas

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Bulgaria 

GERB would win early parliamentary elections in Bulgaria – poll

July 15, 2013July 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

In its first public opinion poll since the May 12 2013 parliamentary elections, the National Centre for the Study of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s beleaguered government quietly backtracking on easing smoking ban

July 15, 2013July 15, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency smoking

Ahead of the May 2013 parliamentary elections, Bulgaria’s socialist party promised that if it came into power, it would ease

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