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Month: August 2014

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria fears new refugee wave from Iraq conflict

August 19, 2014August 24, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Syrian refugees

Bulgaria could face an even greater inflow of refugees in the coming months, following intensified fighting in Iraq in recent

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s Borissov’s political bridges

August 19, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov

In the runup to Bulgaria’s early parliamentary elections on October 5 2014, Boiko Borissov – leader of GERB, the party

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Business 

Greek banks offloading assets ahead of ECB stress test

August 19, 2014August 19, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

As difficult stress tests by the European Central Bank (ECB) approach and bad loans continue to weigh heavily on Greek

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Europe 

Global interest for Hellenistic-era tomb in Amphipolis

August 19, 2014August 19, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency archaeology, Greece

The major archaeological discovery of a Hellenistic-era tomb in Amphipolis, in the district of Serres in northern Greece, has attracted

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Europe 

Rockets reportedly kill fleeing civilians in eastern Ukraine as Kyiv, insurgents swap blame

August 18, 2014August 18, 2014 Christopher J Miller of The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Rockets struck and killed many civilians fleeing the besieged eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk, burning some of them alive inside

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria detains 63 refugees on boat in Black Sea

August 18, 2014August 24, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Syrian refugees

Bulgaria’s border police have intercepted 143 refugees attempting to enter the country illegally over the past three days, including 63

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Bulgaria 

Italian court rejects Bulgarian drug trafficker appeal – report

August 18, 2014August 18, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

An appeal court in Milan ruled to uphold the 20 years imprisonment sentence on Evelin “Brendo” Banev, who was found

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Sport 

Bulgaria’s Bojinov in talks for free transfer to West Ham

August 18, 2014August 18, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Former Manchester City and Fiorentina striker Valeri Bojinov was in London to discuss terms of a free transfer to English

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Europe 

Russia says agreement reached on aid to Ukraine

August 18, 2014August 18, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says his country has resolved the issues it has had with sending humanitarian aid into

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