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Day: April 17, 2015

Bulgaria 

Metro rail line to Business Park Sofia to open on May 8 – mayor

April 17, 2015April 20, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The Sofia Metro underground railway line extension to Business Park Sofia will open on May 8, a day before the

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Bulgaria 

Most Bulgarian motorway repairs to be completed by July 1

April 17, 2015April 17, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Repairs to stretches of two major Bulgarian motorways in critically bad condition will begin on April 20 and most repairs

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Business 

FDI in Bulgaria in January-February was 128.2M euro

April 17, 2015April 17, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first two months of the year stood at 128.2 million euro, the equivalent

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Sport 

Dimitrov demolished by Monfils in Monte-Carlo quarters

April 17, 2015April 17, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Grigor Dimitrov

Grigor Dimitrov was knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Monte-Carlo Masters on April 17, losing to Frenchman Gael Monfils

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Europe 

Earthquake of 6.1 on the Richter scale shakes Crete

April 17, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Aftershocks from 3.4 to 4.9 on the Richter scale followed a powerful earthquake of 6.1 at 9.08pm on April 17

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Europe 

Italy, Greece straining under influx of migrants

April 17, 2015 Zlatica Hoke of VOANews Syrian refugees

Conflict and poverty in Africa and the Middle East and other parts of the world are creating waves of refuges,

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Europe 

Thousands march in Auschwitz in memory of Holocaust victims

April 17, 2015 The Warsaw Voice Poland

About 10 000 young people from around the world came to Oswiecim (Auschwitz in German) in southern Poland on April 17

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Europe 

2014 saw huge increase in violent anti-Semitic incidents in Europe – annual study

April 17, 2015April 17, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The year 2014 saw a huge increase in violent anti-Semitic incidents in Europe, according to an annual study published in

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