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Month: August 2016

Europe 

US rebuffs Turkish demand for immediate return of cleric Ankara blames for failed coup

August 24, 2016 VOANews Turkey

The United States held firm Wednesday in rebuffing Turkey’s demand that it immediately extradite Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen whom Ankara

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov to meet Turkish counterpart in Istanbul

August 24, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov will meet on August 26 in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim, who requested

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s presidential elections: Red Baron loses a wing

August 24, 2016August 28, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Assuming he has some familiarity with quotations from military history, Roumen Radev, the former general and now presidential candidate of

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Bulgaria 

Two US aircraft to participate in securing Bulgaria’s air space

August 24, 2016August 26, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Poland

Two United States military aircraft will participate in securing Bulgaria’s air space from September 9 to 16, Defence Minister Nikolai

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian socialist parties’ presidential electoral alliance fractures into acrimony

August 24, 2016August 28, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgaria elections 2016, Georgi Purvanov

The presidential electoral alliance between two of Bulgaria’s socialist parties, that briefly seemed to have seen them drawing closer together,

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Europe 

Montenegro’s Luksic quits UN Secretary-General race

August 24, 2016August 26, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Irina Bokova, Montenegro

Montenegro’s foreign minister Igor Luksic has withdrawn from the race to be the United Nations’ next Secretary-General, saying that he

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General: Probe Into “Investment Interests” Behind Tobacco Town Fire

August 23, 2016March 16, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff 0 Comments

Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov says that the investigation into the fire that gutted an ensemble of historic tobacco warehouses in

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Bulgaria People 

Prominent Bulgarian TV presenter Dimitar Tsonev dies

August 23, 2016August 26, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Dimitar Tsonev, a prominent Bulgarian television journalist and former government spokesperson, died on August 23 at the age of 56,

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Bulgaria 

Prosecutor-General pledges probe into ‘investment interests’ behind Tobacco Town fire

August 23, 2016August 24, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov says that the investigation into the fire that gutted an ensemble of historic tobacco warehouses in

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