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Day: February 18, 2016

Europe 

‘Migrant-bashing has dangerously become the norm’ in Europe – UN rights expert

February 18, 2016February 20, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

As the European Union summit started in Brussels on February 18, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of

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Europe 

More than one refugee route through the Balkans

February 18, 2016 Deutsche Welle Europe migrant crisis

The Visegrád Group wants Macedonia to assist Greece in closing their border. Alternative routes through the Balkans would thus grow

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Business World 

OECD: World economy is likely to expand no faster in 2016 than in 2015

February 18, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Achieving strong growth in the global economy remains elusive, with only a modest recovery in advanced economies and slower activity

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Leisure 

Film review: Zoolander 2

February 18, 2016February 18, 2016 The Prague Post

We didn’t expect to see fictitious fashion model Zoolander to come back to the big screen after 15 years, and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s cities of Bourgas, Varna cancel procurement tenders at PM’s request

February 18, 2016February 20, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bourgas, Varna

The list of public procurement tender cancellations in Bulgaria this week grew on February 18, when the country’s two port

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Bulgaria 

Sofia police arrest 75 in operation against illegal migration

February 18, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Sofia

Sofia police arrested 75 foreign men in two days in one of its regular operations against illegal migration, Bulgaria’s Interior

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian judge dies after five-storey fall

February 18, 2016February 19, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

A 39-year-old judge in the civil division of the Sofia Regional Court was found dead after falling five storeys from

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World 

Turkey PM: Ankara bomber Syrian with Kurdish links

February 18, 2016February 18, 2016 VOANews Turkey

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says a Syrian man with links to Kurdish militia groups was responsible for a car

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President sends condolences to Erdoğan after fatal bomb blast in Ankara

February 18, 2016February 19, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev, Turkey

Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev has sent condolences to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after the February

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