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Day: October 2, 2015

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov: Air strikes in Syria will cause new wave of refugees

October 2, 2015October 6, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Syrian refugees

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov expects the recent airstrikes in Syria to cause a new wave of refugees. Borissov, speaking

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Europe World 

Coalition urges Russia to stop targeting Syria opposition

October 2, 2015October 6, 2015 VOANews Russia, Syria, Turkey

Russia carried out more airstrikes in Syria Friday, as a U.S-led coalition urged Moscow to halt any attacks on the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria arrests security agency employee who leaked information to smugglers

October 2, 2015October 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office anti-corruption unit has arrested an employee of the State Agency for National Security for allegedly leaking

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Europe 

Europe’s migrant crisis: Roundup, October 2

October 2, 2015October 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Czech Republic, Greece, Macedonia, Syrian refugees, Turkey

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry, State Agency for National Security and prosecutors detained 46 alleged people-traffickers and 501 migrants who had entered

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Bulgaria Sport 

2015 Sofia Marathon to be held on October 4

October 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The annual Sofia Marathon will be held on October 4 2015, starting at 10am from Vassil Levski national stadium. The

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Bulgaria 

German embassy marking 25 years of unification with running events in four Bulgarian cities

October 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas, Plovdiv, Sofia, Varna

The Germany embassy in Sofia is marking 25 years since the country’s unification on October 3 1990 with running events

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Europe 

Germany debates tightening asylum laws

October 2, 2015October 5, 2015 Deutsche Welle

Wide-ranging changes to accelerate and tighten Germany’s asylum laws have been submitted to parliament. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said

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Europe 

Future of Europe cannot be built on ‘ever-higher walls,’ Greek PM Tsipras tells UN

October 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras says that his country is striving to bolster regional security and is supporting all efforts

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Europe 

ECJ: Countries have the right to punish migrants who violate entry bans

October 2, 2015 Deutsche Welle

The EU’s highest court has ruled that member states have the right to punish illegal migrants who re-enter a country

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