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Day: August 2, 2013

Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s summer of stalemate

August 2, 2013August 22, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency

The 50th consecutive day of anti-government protests in Bulgaria coincided with the final sitting of Parliament before its summer recess

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to revamp mine safety regulations after Oranovo collapse

August 2, 2013August 7, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Economy Minister Dragomir Stoynev said on August 2 that the Cabinet would review all existing mine safety regulations in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament overturns veto on amendments to eavesdropping law

August 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on August 2 to overturn the veto imposed by President Rossen Plevneliev on the amendments to the

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Bulgaria 

Rescuers find bodies of two miners caught in Bulgaria’s Oranovo collapse

August 2, 2013August 3, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Rescue workers found on August 2 the bodies of the two miners that had been trapped in the collapse of

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World 

NASA maps 130 years of climate change

August 2, 2013August 2, 2013 VOANews final frontier

America’s space agency, NASA, has produced a video showing how Earth’s surface temperatures have been changing over the years. NASA

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Leisure 

What’s on: Sofia Breathes

August 2, 2013August 1, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

For a fourth year running, residents and visitors of Sofia are invited to shake off the torpor of the hot

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