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Day: July 5, 2015

Europe 

Early Greek vote count shows big rejection of more austerity

July 5, 2015 Henry Ridgwell of VOANews Greece

Greek voters are overwhelmingly rejecting a demand by the country’s lenders to impose more austerity measures on them in exchange

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Europe 

Greeks vote no in July 5 referendum – initial results

July 5, 2015July 6, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

More than 60 per cent of Greece’s electorate have voted no in the country’s July 5 referendum, Greek and international

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Black Sea Varna and Bourgas report drop in summer tourists

July 5, 2015July 7, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas, tourism, Varna

At the height of the summer tourism season at Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, hoteliers in Varna say tourist numbers are

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian police seize 15M leva fake branded goods at Black Sea resorts

July 5, 2015July 6, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas, Varna

Bulgarian police have seized merchanise and products worth about 15 million leva (about 7.65 million euro) illegally bearing famous-name trademarks

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Europe 

Bulgaria tells holidaymakers heading for Greece to take cash, have full petrol tanks

July 5, 2015July 7, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry has made seven recommendations to the country’s holidaymakers heading to Greece, including to fill their tanks with

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Europe 

Russians get glimpse of internet ‘troll factory’

July 5, 2015July 6, 2015 Doug Bernard of VOANews

A secretive Russian agency designed to flood the Internet with pro-Kremlin and anti-U.S. comments and posts has been brought into

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Europe 

War in the age of social media

July 5, 2015 The Kyiv Post

Many don’t think twice about their posts on social media, but for Ukrainian soldiers in the Donbas war zone, what

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People 

AmCham Bulgaria holds 20th annual Independence Day party

July 5, 2015July 6, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria held its 20th annual Independence Day Community Party on July 4 at the

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