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Day: February 1, 2015

Europe 

Another deadly weekend with 22 civilians killed in Donbas

February 1, 2015 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Seven civilians were killed in shelling in Donbas by the afternoon of February 1. A 66-year old woman was killed

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian air crew held in Sudan freed – official

February 1, 2015February 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Six Bulgarian air crew members working for the World Food Programme who had been held by a rebel group had

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government fires head of Employment Agency

February 1, 2015February 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The head of the Bulgarian government’s Employment Agency, Assen Angelov, has been dismissed. Angelov was appointed in December 2013, a

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Bulgaria 

Bourgas, south-eastern Bulgaria hard-hit by heavy rain

February 1, 2015February 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas

A partial state of emergency was declared in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Bourgas on February 1, and emergencies

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s new fence at Turkish border ‘to be like Berlin Wall’

February 1, 2015February 5, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

The new 82km fence that Bulgaria plans to build at its border with Turkey will be higher, wider and well

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria holds state funeral for former president Zhelyu Zhelev

February 1, 2015February 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff editors pick

The solemn rituals of a state funeral were held in Sofia’s Alexander Nevsky cathedral for former president Zhelyu Zhelev on

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Bulgaria 

Annual ceremony in Sofia honours victims of communist regime

February 1, 2015February 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The death sentences and labour camps as the communist regime extended its grip on Bulgaria 70 years ago did not

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Europe 

Germany’s Merkel rejects demands to cancel more Greek debt

February 1, 2015 VOANews Greece

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who presides over Europe’s largest and strongest economy, has again ruled out debt forgiveness for Greece’s

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