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Year: 2013

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Pope Benedict XVI announces resignation

February 11, 2013February 11, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

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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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarian state bodies check electricity bills as protests continue

February 11, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Delyan Dobrev, energy

After a day of protests that saw thousands of people in 15 Bulgarian cities and towns express indignation against high

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Europe News 

Holocaust denier sent to see for himself

February 11, 2013 The Budapest Times

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 Leisure News 

Bulgaria names 2007 Eurovision song contest competitors as its 2013 entrants

February 11, 2013February 11, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria has named the duo who competed for the country in the 2007 Eurovision song contest, Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan

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Bulgaria Europe News World 

Findings on Bourgas Airport attack will have consequences in the EU, Bulgarian Foreign Minister says

February 10, 2013June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas terrorist attack, Nikolai Mladenov

In the coming weeks and months, what Bulgaria has discovered about the terrorist bombing at Bourgas Airport will not remain

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News World 

Nasa’s Curiosity rover takes historic sample on Mars

February 10, 2013 VOANews

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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Bulgaria Europe News 

Balkan offensive

February 10, 2013May 22, 2013 Robert Hodgson of The Budapest Times

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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Bulgaria News 

St Valentine in play as Bulgarian Orthodox Church nears election of new Patriarch

February 10, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

One could be forgiven for mistaking a Bulgarian Orthodox Church metropolitan’s public attack on celebrating Saint Valentine’s Day for an

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Bulgaria News 

Snowballs thrown at Energy Minister, arson in Plovdiv as thousands of Bulgarians protest against electricity bills

February 10, 2013February 10, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Two company cars owned by electricity distribution company EVN were burnt out in Plovdiv on the eve of a protest

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