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Groups of students at 15 higher education institutions in Bulgaria are now involved in the anti-government “Occupy” protest that began two weeks ago at Sofia University and that have won […]
Slovakian president Ivan Gašparovič has handed his Bulgarian counterpart Rossen Plevneliev 100 000 euro as a grant to help Bulgaria cope with the refugee crisis. The use of the funds […]
The number of street dogs in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia has decreased, from more than 11 000 in 2007 to 6635 in 2013, according to a survey by the Four […]
Greek finance minister Yannis Stournaras met with the troika inspectors in Athens on November 5 2013 in what was the first of a series of meetings to be held between […]
A 24-hour general strike in Greece on November 6, organised by the country’s two largest trade unions in protest against the government’s continuing austerity measures, was expected to disrupt air […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is encouraged by the initial assessments of the municipal elections held on November 3 2013 throughout Kosovo, while condemning the attacks perpetrated against a number […]
The issue of kosher slaughter in Poland ‘’is currently being examined by the constitutional court,” Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski said during a meeting with the Speaker of the Knesset, Yuli […]
Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Hawaii, Manoa say that based on new analysis of Kepler spacecraft data, one in five stars similar to our own sun […]
More than 1000 paedophiles were identified using a novel, high-tech approach. Using a computer-generated 10-year-old Filipino girl named Sweetie, the Dutch rights group Terre des Hommes attracted over 1000 adults willing to […]
Talks have begun among the leaders of the seven minority political parties that are members of the Reformist Bloc into a “lasting political entity”, according to the Democrats for a […]
