Crunch time for refugees on the island of Lesbos
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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Day: March 21, 2016
Bulgarian Foreign Ministry names team for Bokova’s UN Secretary-General candidacy
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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Controversial Bulgarian MP pulls out of deal to buy insolvent fertiliser plant
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 confers highest state honour on visiting Vatican Secretary of State
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 Prosecutor-General asks Parliament to lift immunity of socialist MP
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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Bulgarian prosecutors do not believe death of Palestinian Zayed was murder
Bulgarian prosecutors investigating the February 26 death of Omar Zayed, a Palestian fugitive who had sought refuge at the Palestinian
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Bulgarian, Romanian defence ministers in talks on boosting co-operation
Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev and his Romanian counterpart Mihnea Motoc held talks in Bucharest on March 21 2016, with
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Russian court prepares to find Savchenko guilty of murder
A judge in a Russian court in Donetsk, Rostov Oblast, started summing up the case against Nadiya Savchenko on March
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Attacks against refugees, asylum seekers and migrants are unacceptable, European human rights bodies say
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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