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Year: 2013

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Support for Greek far-right Golden Dawn party continues amid crackdown

October 11, 2013October 11, 2013 Al Pessin of VOANews Greece

Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party is again being labeled “neo-Nazi” after its leader and other senior members were arrested for

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Europe 

Polish PM to announce cabinet reshuffle in November

October 11, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday that he will announce cabinet line-up changes in November, when he will

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World 

Rifts emerge between Turkey’s PM and president

October 11, 2013 Dorian Jones of VOANews Turkey

Divisions between Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan re-emerged last week with the president’s address at

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Bulgaria 

Astronomers discover lone planet with no star

October 10, 2013October 11, 2013 VOANews final frontier

Astronomers have discovered a lone planet, floating in space without a star. This free-floating planet, dubbed PSO J318.5-22, is just

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Perspectives 

Comment: Bulgaria and polarisation over the Syrian refugees

October 10, 2013May 10, 2024 Independent Balkan News Agency Syrian refugees

In a country that the autumn of 2013 finds quite as deeply divided over almost every issue, perhaps it is

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Leisure 

Film review: 2 Guns

October 10, 2013October 10, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

It’s all about the dinero. In the case of 2 Guns, more than 43 million George Washingtons. It is drug

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Leisure 

Film review: Prisoners

October 10, 2013October 10, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

The final minutes of Canadian director Denis Villeneuve’s somber new film Prisoners are as dark and thrilling as anything that precedes them,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian security agency chief: Refugees no security threat but a ‘problem’

October 10, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, Syrian refugees

The head of Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security, Vladimir Pisanchev, has denied that the country faces a national security

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Business 

House prices in Bulgaria fell 2.2 per cent year-on-year in Q2 2013 – Eurostat

October 10, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

House prices in Bulgaria fell by 2.2 per cent in the second quarter of 2013 compared with the same quarter

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