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Day: July 8, 2014

Europe 

As Ukraine separatists retreat, Russia’s next moves unclear

July 8, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

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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Bulgaria 

Falling tree kills passerby as violent hailstorm strikes Bulgarian capital Sofia

July 8, 2014July 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff 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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Bulgaria 

BWC, BSP spent most money in European Parliament election campaigns – audit office

July 8, 2014July 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European elections 2014

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 

Bulgaria’s Parliament to resume sittings after three-party agreement

July 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

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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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian socialist MP apologises for sexist comment

July 8, 2014July 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Socialist Party MP Kiril Dobrev issued a public apology on his Facebook page after a storm broke around him

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Europe 

Lithuania’s president warns of growing ‘Russian chauvinism’

July 8, 2014July 8, 2014 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief editors pick, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine

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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Europe 

Retreating Ukraine rebels dig in at Donetsk

July 8, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

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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Perspectives 

Strong backing in EU for Bulgaria’s Georgieva to be bloc’s next foreign policy chief

July 8, 2014July 10, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer editors pick, European Commission, European elections 2014

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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Bulgaria 

Bid for talks on tasks of Bulgaria’s outgoing parliament faces opposition boycott

July 8, 2014July 9, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov

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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