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Malcolm Gladwell says it takes around 10 000 hours of practice to reach mastery of a craft. But in Damien Chazelle’s exhilarating and at times unnerving second feature film, Whiplash, […]
Bulgaria will reintroduce a curfew at all refugee shelters in the country within a few days, State Agency for Refugees head Nikola Kazakov said on January 29. Kazakov headed the […]
February 1 2015 will see Bulgaria’s annual commemoration of the victims of communism, moments of remembrance first decreed by the cabinet in 2011 in honour of the memory of the […]
European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels have agreed to impose new sanctions over Russia’s alleged involvement in the Ukraine conflict. This will see an already existing “blacklist” of individuals […]
Warsaw prosecutors said on January 29 2015 that they were investigating 107 current and former members of parliament as part of a massive probe into whether lawmakers fraudulently claimed travel expenses. […]
A global effort is required to address the internal security needs of the European Union (EU) against the threat of foreign fighters, Interpol Secretary General Jürgen Stock said on January […]
Fighting continued Thursday in the northern sector of the former cease-fire line in eastern Ukraine as Russian-backed rebels pressed their offensive aimed at moving the line farther west. The battle […]
European Union Justice and Interior Ministers are discussing ways to strengthen information sharing and border control, among other measures to crack down on terrorism. Their two-day meeting ends Friday in […]
Romania belongs to the Schengen area since the country fully fulfills all the accession technical criteria while all the other “doubts on this level are strictly related to political reasons,” […]
During World War 2, Alan Turing built a computer, and in so doing, he saved Western civilization from the encroaching spread of the Third Reich. Unable to speak openly of […]
