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Month: June 2014

Europe 

Greece to invite oil companies to conduct offshore test drillings

June 26, 2014June 26, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Greece

Greece is to invite major oil companies early July to conduct offshore test drillings in the areas of the Ionian

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Sport 

Grigor Dimitrov strolls into Wimbledon third round

June 25, 2014June 27, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Grigor Dimitrov

Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov won his second-round match at Wimbledon against Australian qualifier Luke Saville in straight sets 6-3, 6-2, 6-4

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World 

Astronomers discover ‘Earth-size diamond in space’

June 25, 2014June 25, 2014 VOANews final frontier

Astronomers say they’ve discovered “an Earth-size diamond in space.” The white dwarf star, some 900 million light-years away, could be

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Business 

Bulgarian regulator lodges EC complaint against US-owned power plants

June 25, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff energy, European Commission

Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) has lodged official complaints with the European Commission against two thermal power

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Bulgaria 

770 homeless after floods in Bulgaria’s Varna need shelter – report

June 25, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Varna, Varna floods

Life in the Asparouhovo area in Bulgaria’s Black Sea city Varna is slowly returning to normal, but the city has

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Bulgaria 

Borissov: GERB will attend June 27 political consultations on early elections

June 25, 2014June 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, European elections 2014, Sergei Stanishev

Centre-right opposition GERB party leader Boiko Borissov said on June 25 that he would accept a Bulgarian Socialist Party invitation

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Bulgaria 

A month after European elections, scant signs Bulgaria is emerging from political quagmire

June 25, 2014June 26, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, European elections 2014, Peevski protests, Sergei Stanishev

June 25 is a month to the day since the turning point of Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections, which saw the

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Bulgaria 

Varna floods: Evacuation, demolition of dangerous buildings continue

June 25, 2014June 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Varna, Varna floods

Six days after the devastating floods that hit the Asparouhovo area of Bulgaria’s Black Sea city Varna, compulsory evacuation of

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Sport 

Bulgaria’s Pulev makes first jab ahead of Klitschko title bout

June 25, 2014May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Koubrat Pulev, who will fight Ukrainian heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko for the IBF title in September, has asked his

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