As Ukraine separatists retreat, Russia’s next moves unclear
Russia has urged Ukrainian authorities to negotiate a cease-fire, after separatist rebels in southeast Ukraine retreated to the two largest
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Day: July 8, 2014
Falling tree kills passerby as violent hailstorm strikes Bulgarian capital Sofia
A 70-year-old man died in Borissova Gradina when a tree fell during a violent hailstorm that lashed the Bulgarian capital city
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BWC, BSP spent most money in European Parliament election campaigns – audit office
Former talk show host Nikolai Barekov’s populist Bulgaria Without Censorship (BWC) party spent by far the most among the parties
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Bulgaria’s Parliament to resume sittings after three-party agreement
Bulgaria’s troubled National Assembly, due to be dissolved on August 6 ahead of early elections, appears set to be able
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Bulgarian socialist MP apologises for sexist comment
Bulgarian Socialist Party MP Kiril Dobrev issued a public apology on his Facebook page after a storm broke around him
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Lithuania’s president warns of growing ‘Russian chauvinism’
Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region unnerved Russia’s neighbors from Kazakhstan in the south to the Baltic states in the
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Retreating Ukraine rebels dig in at Donetsk
Pro-Russian separatists retreating ahead of a Ukrainian military offensive in eastern Ukraine dug in Monday in the city of Donetsk,
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Strong backing in EU for Bulgaria’s Georgieva to be bloc’s next foreign policy chief
A significant number of European Union countries have signalled to Sofia their support for Bulgaria’s current European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva
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Bid for talks on tasks of Bulgaria’s outgoing parliament faces opposition boycott
As it heads into its final few weeks, a question marks hangs over what if anything Bulgaria’s National Assembly will
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