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The European Union should convene a humanitarian conference aimed at helping Syria’s neighbouring countries to cope with the still-growing influx of refugees, the European Parliament said in a resolution approved […]
By an overwhelming majority in a vote on October 9 2013, Bulgaria’s Parliament rejected a motion by Volen Siderov’s ultra-nationalist Ataka party to close the country’s borders to immigrants from […]
The European Parliament, adopting the first reading of an amendment to existing EU legislation, proposed on October 9 2013 that exploration and hydraulic fracturing extraction activities for non-conventional hydrocarbons should […]
Three hours after the start of the first sitting of Bulgaria’s Parliament on the day after the Constitutional Court ruling that Delyan Peevski was still an MP, the controversial figure […]
A 25km-long queue of lorries formed at the Bulgarian – Turkish border checkpoint at Kapitan Andreevo on October 9 because of a dispute that led to the closure on the […]
The neckline of a female TV presenter during a show became the number one story in Turkey! Godze Cansu presented Sunday the first talent show of ATV network for singers […]
Turkey has lifted a decades-old ban on head scarves for female workers in state offices, ending a longstanding restriction that has polarized Turkish society. The change went into effect Tuesday. […]
After Pussy Riot and “Gay propaganda,” the Kremlin now marches resolutely towards another international public relations defeat — this time with Greenpeace. To the Kremlin, Greenpeace activists are not trespassers, […]
