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Day: August 7, 2013

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s ruling socialists to call Parliament sitting after Budget veto

August 7, 2013August 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s socialists, one of the two parties in the ruling coalition, said on August that the party would call an

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Rosen Plevneliev president of Bulgaria
Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President vetoes Budget revision

August 7, 2013August 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on August 7 that he vetoed parts of the Budget revision bill, which Parliament passed

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Business 

Bulgaria records highest grain harvest in eight years – minister

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

Bulgaria’s Agriculture Minister Dimitar Grekov said on August 7 that this year’s wheat harvest was the highest in eight years,

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Bulgaria 

Iron Age necropolis near Strouma motorway in Bulgaria destroyed

August 7, 2013August 7, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, motorways

Part of an early Iron Age necropolis in Doupnitsa district in southwestern Bulgaria, in the immediate vicinity of the recently-launched

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Cabinet to pay 130 000 leva to relatives of Oranovo miners’ relatives, rescuers

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

Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on August 7 the payment of one-off aid to the relatives of miners who died in the

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Bulgaria 

Would-be thieves torch money in botched ATM robbery in Bulgaria

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

Burglars who attempted to crack an ATM in the Bulgarian town of Shoumen ended up burning through the plastic cash

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Europe 

Murder convictions highlight Roma discrimination in Europe

August 7, 2013 Henry Ridgwell of VOANews Hungary

A court in Hungary has jailed three men for life and a fourth for 13 years for a series of

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Perspectives 

Erdogan’s presidential plans linked to Turkey’s economic fortunes

August 7, 2013August 7, 2013 David Arnold of VOANews Turkey

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s handling of recent anti-government demonstrations and his public quarrel with the country’s banks and

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