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Day: November 1, 2015

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2015: GERB and Reformist Bloc hail successes, BSP concedes defeat

November 1, 2015November 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2015

Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party emerged from the second round of mayoral elections on November 1 proclaiming its high

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Europe 

Ruling AKP party leads in Turkey elections

November 1, 2015 Jamie Dettmer of VOANews Turkey

With nearly half of votes counted, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party is ahead in Sunday’s snap parliamentary election after

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2015 second round: GERB wins most major cities

November 1, 2015November 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2015

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party won most of the country’s largest cities that were up for grabs

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2015 second round: Drama over result in Plovdiv

November 1, 2015November 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2015, Plovdiv

Initial exit polls after voting ended in a mayoral election runoff on November 1 in Plovdiv showed GERB candidate and

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Bulgaria 

Websites of Bulgaria’s Parliament, revenue agency, security agency offline in apparent hacker attacks

November 1, 2015November 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2015

The websites of Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security, Parliament, National Revenue Agency and the state energy regulator were offline

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarians vote in November 1 second round of mayoral elections

November 1, 2015November 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2015, Plovdiv, Sofia

Voters in several Bulgarian cities and in towns and villages across the country returned to polling stations on November 1

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Europe 

Earthquakes of 4.9 Richter scale in Albania, 4.8 in Slovenia

November 1, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Albania, Slovenia

An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale shook Albania on the morning of November 1 2015, while a quake

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