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Month: August 2018

Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Clay pot with hundreds of silver and gold coins found at Bulgaria’s Kaliakra Fortress

August 22, 2018August 25, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

An archaeological team working at the site of the Kaliakra Fortress on Bulgaria’s northern Black Sea coast have found a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria budgets 2.4M leva to drain tanks of oil spill shipwreck off Sozopol

August 22, 2018August 24, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivailo Moskovski said on August 22 that an operation to drain heavy fuel oil from the Mopang

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Bulgaria 

Series of events in Bulgaria to commemorate victims of totalitarian regimes of 20th Century

August 22, 2018August 24, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

A series of initiatives being held from August 23 to September 9 2018 in Bulgaria will honour the memory of

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Bulgaria 

Probe begins into Bulgarian Air Force helicopter accident that cut power to town

August 22, 2018August 24, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

A second inspection was to take place on August 22 at the site where a Bulgarian Air Force Cougar helicopter

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria deputy regulator chief resigns after insurer bankruptcy

August 21, 2018August 24, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s top official in charge of regulatory oversight of the insurance sector resigned on August 21, a day after coming

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Europe 

World Health Organisation: Measles cases hit record high in the European Region

August 21, 2018August 21, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

More than 41 000 children and adults in the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) European Region have been infected with measles

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv’s Tobacco Town fire, two years on: Court in the act

August 21, 2018August 23, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The year 2016 saw two disasters befall the Tobacco Town warehouses in the historic precinct of Plovdiv that once was

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian leaders congratulate country’s Muslims on Eid al-Adha

August 21, 2018August 22, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Political and spiritual leaders in Bulgaria have issued statements congratulating the country’s Muslim minority on Eid al-Adha, one of the

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Europe 

UK press sceptical over the end of the Greek crisis

August 21, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

The UK media are unanimous in declaring that the end of the Greek crisis exists mainly on paper, as they

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