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Day: October 10, 2013

Bulgaria 

Astronomers discover lone planet with no star

October 10, 2013October 11, 2013 VOANews final frontier

Astronomers have discovered a lone planet, floating in space without a star. This free-floating planet, dubbed PSO J318.5-22, is just

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Perspectives 

Comment: Bulgaria and polarisation over the Syrian refugees

October 10, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency editors pick, Syrian refugees

In a country that the autumn of 2013 finds quite as deeply divided over almost every issue, perhaps it is

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Leisure 

Film review: 2 Guns

October 10, 2013October 10, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

It’s all about the dinero. In the case of 2 Guns, more than 43 million George Washingtons. It is drug

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Leisure 

Film review: Prisoners

October 10, 2013October 10, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

The final minutes of Canadian director Denis Villeneuve’s somber new film Prisoners are as dark and thrilling as anything that precedes them,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian security agency chief: Refugees no security threat but a ‘problem’

October 10, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, Syrian refugees

The head of Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security, Vladimir Pisanchev, has denied that the country faces a national security

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Business 

House prices in Bulgaria fell 2.2 per cent year-on-year in Q2 2013 – Eurostat

October 10, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

House prices in Bulgaria fell by 2.2 per cent in the second quarter of 2013 compared with the same quarter

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Bulgaria 

Tsvetanov trial delayed over judge recusal

October 10, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Tsvetan Tsvetanov

The judges in the trial of Bulgaria’s former interior minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, who stands accused of irregularities in regulating the

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Bulgaria 

GERB tables second no-confidence motion in Bulgarian Socialist Party government

October 10, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Lyutvi Mestan, Sergei Stanishev

Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB opposition party has tabled its second motion of no confidence in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government,

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Bulgaria 

Sofia city council holds emergency meeting on refugee situation in capital

October 10, 2013October 10, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The growing number of refugees, many from Syria, in the Bulgarian capital city prompted the calling of a special meeting

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