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Month: June 2015

Sport World 

Blatter resigns as FIFA chief

June 2, 2015 VOANews

Sepp Blatter, president of the international football federation FIFA, abruptly resigned Tuesday in the midst of an unfolding corruption scandal.

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s competition watchdog fines electricity distributors 1.17M leva over access to utility poles

June 2, 2015June 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on June 2 that it has fined the country’s three electricity distribution

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Bulgaria 

Garmen protesters in failed bid to break police cordon at Roma neighbourhood

June 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

A group of protesters in Garmen municipality made a failed attempt to break through a police cordon guarding the Roma

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Bulgaria 

Teenager found stabbed to death in Sofia’s Borissova Gradina

June 2, 2015June 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Police in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia are investigating after the body of a 16-year-old boy was found on a bench

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Bulgaria 

Hundreds protest in Garmen against illegal construction, Roma

June 2, 2015June 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Hundreds of residents of Garmen municipality, joined by bikers and politicians from elsewhere in the country, held a protest on

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Europe 

Russian rewrite of crushing of Prague Spring angers Czech Republic and Slovakia

June 2, 2015June 4, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Czech Republic, Russia, Slovakia

A Russian television film that depicts the Soviet suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring as having been in response to

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Sport 

Berbatov, AS Monaco part ways

June 2, 2015June 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov will leave AS Monaco after the French football club has decided not to renew the former

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Europe 

Athens in search of quick deal with creditors to avert June default

June 2, 2015June 2, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek government sources suggest an interim deal will be agreed imminently that would secure Athens meets its heavy debt repayment

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Bulgaria 

Sirens to sound in Bulgaria on June 2 2015 to honour memory of Hristo Botev

June 1, 2015May 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Across Bulgaria, sirens will sound at noon on June 2 2015 in an annual custom honouring the memory of revolutionary,

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