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Day: July 15, 2016

Europe 

Turkish military attempts to seize control of government

July 15, 2016July 19, 2016 VOANews Turkey

  The Turkish military on Friday said that it had assumed power over Turkey, an act that the president said

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs start clock on financial watchdog reshuffle

July 15, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Parliament started on July 15 the proceedings to appoint a new chairperson of the Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) amid

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Bulgaria 

FDI in Bulgaria in January-May was 517.3M euro

July 15, 2016July 15, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first five months of 2016 stood at 517.3 million euro, the equivalent of

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Bulgaria 

Officials: ‘No evidence of a specific threat of a terrorist act in Bulgaria’

July 15, 2016July 18, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian government’s consultative group on counter-terrorism met on July 15 in the wake of the terrorist attack in the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President: Nice terror attack is against the foundations of our civilisation

July 15, 2016July 18, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria is shaken by the terrorist attack in Nice and strongly condemns “this attack on the foundations of our civilisation,”

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Bulgaria 

Crime rate in Bulgaria down in 2015 – statistics institute

July 15, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The crime rate in Bulgaria in 2015 was just more than 12 per cent lower than the previous year, the

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Bulgaria 

Nice attack: Bulgarian PM says ‘what we did in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan generates terrorism’

July 15, 2016July 18, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has expressed his country’s condolences after the July 14 terrorist attack in Nice in which

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Europe 

Truck ploughs into Bastille Day crowd in France; terror attack kills 84

July 15, 2016 VOANews

French President Francois Hollande says the Bastille Day truck attack that killed 84 and injured 100 others in Nice has

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