Pope Benedict XVI announces resignation
Pope Benedict XVI, the leader of the world’s Roman Catholics, announced his resignation on February 11 2013, saying that his
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Year: 2013
Bulgarian state bodies check electricity bills as protests continue
After a day of protests that saw thousands of people in 15 Bulgarian cities and towns express indignation against high
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Holocaust denier sent to see for himself
An unemployed computer technician named as György N. has become Hungary’s first convicted Holocaust denier after a court sentenced him
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Bulgaria names 2007 Eurovision song contest competitors as its 2013 entrants
Bulgaria has named the duo who competed for the country in the 2007 Eurovision song contest, Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan
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Findings on Bourgas Airport attack will have consequences in the EU, Bulgarian Foreign Minister says
In the coming weeks and months, what Bulgaria has discovered about the terrorist bombing at Bourgas Airport will not remain
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Nasa’s Curiosity rover takes historic sample on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has, for the first time, used a drill on the end of a robotic arm to
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Balkan offensive
Romanian, Bulgarian officials unimpressed as UK newspapers make fun of government brainwave to put off would-be immigrants Recent weeks have
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St Valentine in play as Bulgarian Orthodox Church nears election of new Patriarch
One could be forgiven for mistaking a Bulgarian Orthodox Church metropolitan’s public attack on celebrating Saint Valentine’s Day for an
Read moreSnowballs thrown at Energy Minister, arson in Plovdiv as thousands of Bulgarians protest against electricity bills
Two company cars owned by electricity distribution company EVN were burnt out in Plovdiv on the eve of a protest
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