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Day: August 9, 2015

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria denies reports about search for two foreigners linked to ‘Islamic State’ in Bulgaria

August 9, 2015August 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry, in an August 9 statement, rejected reports about security services in Bulgaria seeking two people, a French

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian church Plovdiv Metropolitan in new controversy over political statements

August 9, 2015August 18, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Plovdiv

Metropolitan Nikolai, the head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s largest diocese, Plovdiv, has generated new controversy with statements attacking national

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Europe 

Migrants cut fence on Hungary-Serbia border

August 9, 2015August 12, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Hungary, Serbia

A group of 18 migrants has cut barbed wire installed by the Hungarian government on the border with Serbia, Hungarian

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Europe 

Russian opposition activists end hunger strike

August 9, 2015August 9, 2015 VOANews Russia

Six Russian opposition activists ended their 12-day hunger strike Saturday after one of them was hospitalized. The activists in Novosibirsk,

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