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Day: July 23, 2015

World 

NASA’s Kepler Mission discovers bigger, older cousin to Earth

July 23, 2015July 23, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff final frontier

NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and

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Leisure 

Film review: Paper Towns

July 23, 2015July 23, 2015 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

“I can feel my heart beating in my chest!” screams the teenage Quentin Jacobsen (Nat Wolff) late one night in

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People 

Bulgarian President confers highest state honour on departing US ambassador

July 23, 2015July 23, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev conferred the country’s highest state honour, the Stara Planina first class, on outgoing

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian parties compromise on judicial reform with deal on new proposal

July 23, 2015July 26, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Six of Bulgaria’s political parties and coalitions have reached a deal on tabling a fresh proposal on constitutional changes regarding

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Bulgaria 

Foreign diplomats call for Bulgaria’s judicial reform to be meaningful

July 23, 2015July 26, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Foreign diplomats in Sofia representing several EU countries, the US and other states have called for the amendments to the

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Bulgaria 

Mogherini briefed on migration pressure on Bulgaria

July 23, 2015July 23, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria is among the countries worst-affected by migration pressure, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov told EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini,

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Bulgaria 

EC approves 6.3M euro in disaster relief for Bulgaria

July 23, 2015July 26, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission, Greece

The European Commission said on July 23 that it has approved a grant of 6.3 million euro for Bulgaria to

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Bulgaria 

Four arrested over supply of anthrax-tainted meat in Bulgaria’s Varna

July 23, 2015July 26, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Varna

Four people have been taken into custody by police in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna in connection with

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Europe 

Greek parliament approves second set of reforms demanded by creditors

July 23, 2015July 23, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency euro zone, Greece

Greece’s parliament approved in the early hours of Thursday the second set of prior actions, on judicial and banking reforms,

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