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For the second consecutive month, the cost of food worldwide remained nearly unchanged in December 2013, with overall global food prices for 2013 among the highest on record, the United […]
Reports indicate that although there are still thousands of protesters occupying government buildings and Independence Square in the capital, Kyiv, th ...
The one thing all US politicians, no matter how extreme or politically minded, can agree on is that “the troops” are the backbone of American prid ...
The last time we saw Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), she was writhing between the sheets, but in a way different than usual: the erogenous zone between he ...
Controversial proposed amendments to Bulgaria’s Penal Code will put an end to anti-corruption investigative journalism, new reports say, in the latest criticism of the Ministry of Justice project. Earlier, concerns […]
The Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) in the euro zone in December 2013 was at its best level since July 2011, with economic sentiment in the wider European Union already having […]
Bulgaria’s top-ranked female tennis player, Tsvetana Pironkova, reached her first WTA Tour final at the Apia International in Sydney after defeating Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-4. Pironkova has been […]
The National Revenue Agency has initiated a special tax audit of human rights watchdog the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee in a move that the group suspects is political retaliation for its […]
A new ‘code yellow’ weather warning was issued for most of Bulgaria by the country’s meteorology institute on January 9 because of the thick fog. In total, 17 districts were […]
French diplomat Stephanie Dumortier was threatened precisely because she was French, Paris’s ambassador in Sofia Xavier Lapeyre de Cabanes told Bulgarian National Television in a January 9 interview after the […]
