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Day: March 21, 2016

Europe 

Crunch time for refugees on the island of Lesbos

March 21, 2016 Deutsche Welle Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Turkey

The 1,500 refugees at the Karatepe camp on the Greek island of Lesbos are nervous. Since the EU struck a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Foreign Ministry names team for Bokova’s UN Secretary-General candidacy

March 21, 2016March 22, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Irina Bokova

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry announced on March 21 2016 the team that will work on the campaign for Irina Bokova to

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Bulgaria 

Controversial Bulgarian MP pulls out of deal to buy insolvent fertiliser plant

March 21, 2016March 22, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Delyan Peevski said on March 21 2016 that he was pulling out of the planned acquisition of an insolvent fertiliser

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria confers highest state honour on visiting Vatican Secretary of State

March 21, 2016March 22, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria awarded its highest state honour, the Stara Planina first class, to Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin at a ceremony

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria Prosecutor-General asks Parliament to lift immunity of socialist MP

March 21, 2016March 22, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has filed a formal request to Parliament, asking for the House to lift the immunity of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian prosecutors do not believe death of Palestinian Zayed was murder

March 21, 2016March 22, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian prosecutors investigating the February 26 death of Omar Zayed, a Palestian fugitive who had sought refuge at the Palestinian

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian, Romanian defence ministers in talks on boosting co-operation

March 21, 2016March 22, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Romania

Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev and his Romanian counterpart Mihnea Motoc held talks in Bucharest on March 21 2016, with

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Europe 

Russian court prepares to find Savchenko guilty of murder

March 21, 2016March 21, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

A judge in a Russian court in Donetsk, Rostov Oblast, started summing up the case against Nadiya Savchenko on March

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Europe 

Attacks against refugees, asylum seekers and migrants are unacceptable, European human rights bodies say

March 21, 2016March 21, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

On March 21, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the heads of Europe’s main intergovernmental human rights institutions

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