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Day: October 20, 2016

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Bulgarian PM says will back sanctions on Russia if hostilities in Aleppo continue

October 20, 2016October 22, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Russia, Syria

Bulgaria would favour EU sanctions against Russia if hostilities in Aleppo continue, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on October 20

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian election commission increases polling stations abroad for presidential election

October 20, 2016October 21, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016

As Bulgaria’s Parliament is poised to debate amendments to the Electoral Code that would scrap a limit on the number

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian presidential candidate’s joke about brainless socialists offends socialist leader

October 20, 2016October 21, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova has called on GERB presidential candidate Tsetska Tsacheva to apologise for telling, during a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria presidential elections: Movement for Rights and Freedoms officially endorses Oresharski

October 20, 2016October 21, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

The third-largest party in the current Bulgarian Parliament, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms founded by Ahmed Dogan, on October

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Bulgaria 

Mestan’s DOST party backs GERB’s Tsacheva in Bulgarian presidential elections

October 20, 2016October 20, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016, Lyutvi Mestan

Bulgarian minority party DOST, the breakaway from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms led by former MRF leader Lyutvi Mestan,

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Bulgaria 

Son of ‘Gülenist’ repatriated to Turkey rejects Bulgarian Interior Ministry claim none sought asylum

October 20, 2016October 20, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

At least one of the seven suspected followers of Fethullah Gülen who were repatriated to Turkey by Bulgaria had wanted

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s top two presidential candidates duel in live TV debate

October 20, 2016October 21, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

The two candidates in Bulgaria’s presidential elections seen in opinion polls as running first and second – out of 21

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Perspectives World 

Third US presidential debate: Trump shocks with ‘I’ll keep you in suspense’

October 20, 2016October 21, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The third United States presidential election debate was running along predictable lines until Donald Trump said, in an extension of

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Europe 

Romania will not sign the EU-Canada trade agreement

October 20, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Romania does not agree with the signing of the trade agreement with Canada, the Romanian Foreign Ministry (MAE) said. Romania

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