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Month: August 2013

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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Leisure 

Film review: The Heat

August 1, 2013August 1, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Since May, Melissa McCarthy has appeared in three films. All of them have been terrible and full of the cheapest

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Leisure 

Film review: Blue Jasmine

August 1, 2013August 1, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Blue Jasmine differs in two important ways from most of Woody Allen’s other recent films. The first difference is that

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Perspectives 

Book review: Every Parent’s Nightmare

August 1, 2013August 2, 2013 Gabriel Hershman

Murphy’s Law says that everything that can go wrong will go wrong. This has always struck me when reading about

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Parliament passes Budget revision at second reading

August 1, 2013August 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s lawmakers passed the government’s Budget revision on July 31 after two days of debate, most of it spent in

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