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Day: October 8, 2015

Europe 

EU interior ministers meet to discuss migrant deportation policy

October 8, 2015 Deutsche Welle

EU interior ministers have discussed new laws to send back illegal migrants who do not qualify for asylum. The countries

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World 

NASA: Pluto has blue skies, water ice

October 8, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff final frontier

The first colour images of Pluto’s atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft last week, reveal that the hazes

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Europe 

Documentary claims Czech president Zeman was in LSD experiment

October 8, 2015October 8, 2015 The Prague Post Czech Republic

A documentary shown by public broadcaster Czech Television claims decades ago, during the communist regime, a young Miloš Zeman as

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Leisure 

Film review: The Walk

October 8, 2015October 8, 2015 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

He knew it was impossible, but he decided to do it nonetheless. The story of Philippe Petit, the French tightrope

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Leisure 

Brian May and Kerry Ellis bringing ‘One Voice’ tour to Sofia in March 2016

October 8, 2015October 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff editors pick, Sofia

Queen guitarist Brian May and Broadway star Kerry Ellis will be performing at the National Palace of Culture, NDK, in

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Europe 

EU interior ministers approve further 400M euro to address migrant crisis

October 8, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

European Union interior ministers approved at an October 8 meeting the provision of a further 401.3 million euro from the

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Bulgaria 

Five foreigners standing as candidates in Bulgaria’s October 2015 municipal elections

October 8, 2015October 11, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2015

Five citizens of European Union countries other than Bulgaria are standing as candidate municipal councillors in Bulgaria’s October 25 2015

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Bulgaria 

Three dead, dozens injured in 40-car chain crash in tunnel on Bulgaria’s Hemus Motorway

October 8, 2015October 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Three people died and dozens were injured, some seriously, in a chain collision involving more than 40 cars in the Vitinya

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President: Moscow has put the Balkans at the centre of its geopolitical interests

October 8, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev, Russia, Ukraine

The Balkans is where Europe must show that it has learned the lessons of the Ukrainian crisis, Bulgarian President Rossen

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