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Year: 2013

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Once more unto the beach, dear friends: Bulgaria’s anti-government protesters take the show on the road

August 3, 2013August 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

Bulgaria’s anti-government protesters have embarked on a 400km march to the seaside to maintain the momentum in the campaign to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s former FM, Nikolai Mladenov, appointed as UN Special Representative for Iraq

August 3, 2013August 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Nikolai Mladenov

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Bulgaria’s former foreign minister Nikolai Mladenov as his Special Representative for Iraq and

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Europe 

Europeans lose trust in governments

August 3, 2013August 3, 2013 Selah Hennessy of VOANews

Years into an economic crisis that has rocked the eurozone, European citizens are losing trust in their governments. A recent

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s summer of stalemate

August 2, 2013August 22, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency

The 50th consecutive day of anti-government protests in Bulgaria coincided with the final sitting of Parliament before its summer recess

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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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