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Year: 2013

Europe 

All eyes on turnout in municipal elections in Kosovo

November 3, 2013November 5, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Kosovo, Serbia

Voter turnout was being keenly watched in the November 3 2013 elections in Kosovo for mayors and municipal councillors, after

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Europe 

29 arrested in operation against document forgery, illegal migration in five EU countries

November 3, 2013November 5, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Czech Republic

Twenty-nine people suspected of large-scale document forgery, smuggling of irregular migrants and money laundering, have been arrested in Austria, Czech

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Europe 

S&P affirms Hungary’s negative rating

November 3, 2013 The Budapest Times Hungary

Ratings agency Standard and Poor’s on Friday affirmed its ‘BB/B’ long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings

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Leisure 

Film review: Machete Kills

November 3, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Once you’ve ripped out someone’s intestines and used them to scale a building, there’s really no way for you to

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Leisure 

Film review: This is the End

November 3, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

For the past few years, James Franco has been taking himself as a bit of a joke. Exaggerating his public

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Bulgaria 

Student protesters march outside Bulgarian Parliament

November 1, 2013November 5, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

For the first time since the start of anti-government student protests in Bulgarian capital city Sofia last week, the focus

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs challenge land sale moratorium at Constitutional Court

November 1, 2013November 5, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

A group of Bulgarian MPs filed on November 1 the paperwork asking the country’s Constitutional Court to rule on the

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Europe 

No glitch in negotiations with troika officials, Greek government says

November 1, 2013November 1, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek government sources have denied the troika has put off a visit to Athens on Monday to negotiate progress in

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Perspectives 

A sad spectacle for Poland

November 1, 2013November 1, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

It’s been three-and-a-half years since the Polish president’s plane crashed near Smolensk, western Russia, killing all 96 aboard, but the

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