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Day: November 3, 2016

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2016: Tsacheva 26.3%, Radev 22.5% – Alpha Research poll

November 3, 2016November 4, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Results of an Alpha Research poll released on November 3, three days before Bulgaria’s 2016 presidential elections, show a tight

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2016 elections: The factfile

November 3, 2016November 7, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016

Bulgaria holds presidential elections and a national referendum on November 6 2016, and may hold a second-round presidential election on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2016 elections: Daily roundup, November 3

November 3, 2016November 4, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Torchlight political processions do not have the most fortunate associations given the history of Europe in the 20th century, but

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a pair of silver handcuffs on a white background
Bulgaria 

Sofia police arrrest five for assaulting refugees

November 3, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Sofia

Police in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia have arrested five men who assaulted refugees in the Stochna Gara area of the city,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s fingerprint admission system for hospitals crashes on third day

November 3, 2016November 4, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The controversial system of admitting patients to hospitals using a fingerprint-based system crashed on November 3, the third day after

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Europe 

Serbian cabinet minister links Vucic ‘assassination attempt’ with US embassy

November 3, 2016November 3, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Serbia

Serbian prime minister Aleksandar Vucic has ordered all state institutions in charge of his security not to give any information

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Europe 

Europe’s divided expectations on US election

November 3, 2016November 3, 2016 VOANews

Polls suggest that if European nations were voting in the U.S. election, Hillary Clinton would win in a landslide. Governments

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