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Day: April 5, 2016

Europe 

Pope, Ecumenical Patriarch and Greek Church head to visit refugees on Lesbos

April 5, 2016April 5, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Greece

Plans are for Roman Catholic church head Pope Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartolomeos and the head of the Greek Church, Archbishop

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria tax agency asks for Panama Papers data – report

April 5, 2016April 6, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency (NRA) asked for information on Bulgarian nationals and companies mentioned in the Panama Papers, the data

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian broadcast regulator elects acting head

April 5, 2016April 5, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Media

Bulgaria’s Council for Electronic Media (CEM), the statutory regulator of the country’s broadcast media, elected council member Maria Stoyanova as

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Europe 

Bulgarian officials aid in expelling migrants from Greece to Turkey

April 5, 2016April 6, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Turkey

Five members of Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry Migration Directorate participated in what a ministry statement described as the first successful operation

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian hospital professor in serious condition after assault

April 5, 2016April 6, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The chief of the orthopaedic and traumatology department at Sofia’s St Anna University Hospital, Professor Stefan Stanchev, is in serious

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian, Maltese presidents: EU must do more for countries facing migrant wave

April 5, 2016April 6, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Rossen Plevneliev

The European Union should show more commitment to the problems of the countries through which there are migration flows and

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Campaign to encourage Bulgarians to ride bicycles

April 5, 2016April 6, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv, Sofia

Bulgarians are being encouraged to take part in cycling tour events in Sofia and Plovdiv on April 10 2016 as

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Europe 

As EU begins deportations, Pakistanis and other migrants call for help

April 5, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Turkey

Around 10 a.m. Monday, Agma — a Pakistani electrician in a tiny tent city on a rocky Greek beach —

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Europe 

Croatian Jews to boycott official Holocaust remembrance

April 5, 2016 VOANews Croatia

Croatia’s Jews will boycott the country’s official ceremony honoring the victims of the pro-Nazi regime of World War II, accusing

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