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Day: May 10, 2016

Bulgaria 

The Rosetta Mission: Learning lessons from a comet

May 10, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Sofia Science Festival

Just a day before Dr Matt Taylor, European Space Agency chief scientist on the Rosetta mission, speaks at the 2016

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Bulgaria 

Richard III: The King’s tale at the Sofia Science Festival

May 10, 2016May 16, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Sofia Science Festival

Between Shakespeare and science, what more is there to say about King Richard III? Quite a lot, actually, especially by

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Deputy PM Kalfin resigns, Purvanov’s party poised to quit coalition

May 10, 2016May 13, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov accepted the resignation of Ivailo Kalfin as Deputy Prime Minister on May 10. Kalfin resigned

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian minority party ABC to vote on leaving coalition government

May 10, 2016May 11, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The national council of minority socialist party ABC said on May 10 2016 that it was recommending that the party

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Bulgaria 

Honorary consuls in Bulgaria challenge loss of diplomatic privileges in court

May 10, 2016May 12, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Nine honorary consuls have filed a complaint with the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) challenging the regulatory changes that stripped them

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria foreign trade gap shrinks in Q1 2016

May 10, 2016May 11, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s foreign trade gap in the first quarter of this year stood at 892.8 million leva, or 456.5 million euro, shrinking from

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian consumer confidence improves in April – poll

May 10, 2016May 11, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s consumer confidence indicator was 1.8 percentage points higher in April than in January, National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on

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Europe 

UN: Step up efforts to protect migrants, refugees

May 10, 2016 Margaret Besheer of VOANews Europe migrant crisis

A new U.N. report expresses concern about rising xenophobia and discrimination against migrants and refugees. “Xenophobic and racist responses to

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Europe 

Social media rife with myths about European refugee crisis

May 10, 2016May 10, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis

Modar, a Syrian refugee, arrived in Europe last fall wearing a secondhand shirt he purchased in Damascus for $1. The

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