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Month: November 2013

Business 

EU unemployment flat at 10.9% in October

November 29, 2013November 29, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat

The 28-member European Union ended October 2013 with 10.9 per cent unemployment, seasonally adjusted, unchanged from September, EU statistics office

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Business 

Greek banks well on track to recovery

November 29, 2013November 29, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Financial results of Greece’s largest banks are showing an improvement in their fundamentals and performance over the last year as

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World 

Scientists: No sign of comet after trip around Sun

November 29, 2013November 29, 2013 VOANews final frontier

Scientists say the comet ISON’s five-million-year journey from the far reaches of the solar system has apparently ended in a

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Leisure 

Film review: Delivery Man

November 29, 2013November 29, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

You don’t have to respect a main character to sympathize with them, but they shouldn’t be such an idiot that

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Leisure 

Film review: The Counselor

November 29, 2013November 29, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Novelist Cormac McCarthy is known for his somber vision of humanity, and the two best-known films made from his work,

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Europe 

EU summit opens, overshadowed by Ukraine

November 28, 2013November 29, 2013 VOANews Ukraine

A European Union summit opened Thursday in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, overshadowed by Ukraine’s decision not to sign a landmark

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament postpones vote on Gambling Act amendments

November 28, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Parliament decided to postpone the vote on the first reading of the Gambling Act amendments, bring the country’s legislation

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria orders shopping mall inspections

November 28, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Government said on November 28 that it has ordered inspections to check the structural soundness of the shopping malls

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s first snow: more traffic disruptions and blackouts

November 28, 2013November 28, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

After two days of intermittent snowfall, new reports of traffic disruptions and villages without power in Bulgaria emerged on November

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