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Month: October 2014

Europe 

Romania votes to elect new president on November 2

October 30, 2014May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Romania

Romanians will head to polling stations on November 2 to elect a new president, with incumbent Traian Basescu stepping down

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Leisure 

Film review: Let’s Be Cops

October 30, 2014October 31, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

There is nothing good to be said about Let’s Be Cops; there are only different shades of terrible. It is

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Leisure 

Film review: Maps to the Stars

October 30, 2014October 30, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Imagine Keeping Up with the Kardashians, but with more drugs, arson and incest. This is as good a place as

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Leisure 

Film review: A Walk Among the Tombstones

October 30, 2014October 30, 2014 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Few people can make recovering alcoholics look as good as Liam Neeson, especially when he plays a man struggling with

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s coalition drama: GERB ‘ready’ to sign a coalition agreement with Reformist Bloc

October 30, 2014November 2, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria could be a step closer to a deal on government that would see a GERB-Reformist Bloc coalition with nationalist

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Business 

Bulgaria 38th in World Bank’s Doing Business 2015 rankings

October 30, 2014November 2, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff World Bank

Bulgaria places 38th out of 189 economies in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2015 rankings, having dropped two places in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria has arrested 472 traffickers of refugees since beginning of August

October 30, 2014October 31, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Syrian refugees

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry has been concentrating its efforts against human traffickers exploiting the refugee influx, with the country arresting 472

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Europe 

Ukraine, Russia extend gas deal talks after impasse

October 30, 2014 VOANews energy, Russia, Ukraine

Trilateral talks in Brussels to restart the delivery of Russian gas to Ukraine will continue on Thursday after the parties

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Prosecutor-General to request removal of immunity of at least five MPs

October 30, 2014October 31, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov said on October 30 that he would be requesting the removal of the immunity from prosecution

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