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Bulgarian PM: China committed to helping find Boyan Petrov, mountaineer missing in Himalayas

May 9, 2018May 11, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian government is in constant contact with the Chinese authorities about a rescue helicopter being provided to help find

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Bulgaria 

Deputy PM Simeonov: Rescue of Bulgarian Jews from Holocaust possible ‘because of Bulgarian government and Boris III’

May 9, 2018May 11, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

The rescue of Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust had been possible only because of the “categorical position” of the Bulgarian

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Europe 

EU slams Trump decision to dump Iran nuclear deal

May 9, 2018May 9, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Union regrets the May 8 statement by US president Donald Trump on the nuclear deal with Iran (Joint

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Bulgaria 

Eurovision song contest 2018: Bulgaria through to final

May 9, 2018May 11, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Eurovision

Bulgaria’s entry in the 2018 Eurovision song contest, Bones by the Equinox ensemble, was among 10 voted on May 8

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria has sixth-highest old-age dependency ratio in the EU – Eurostat

May 8, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat

Bulgaria has the sixth-highest old-age dependency ratio in the European Union, statistics agency Eurostat said on May 8, and is

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Bulgaria 

Sofia Science Festival 2018: Twenty events in English

May 7, 2018May 13, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Science Festival

The 2018 Sofia Science Festival, from May 10 to 13, features 20 events in English – out of a record-setting

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian mountaineer Boyan Petrov missing in Himalayas for several days

May 7, 2018May 9, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian mountaineer Boyan Petrov, a veteran climber who has summited 10 peaks of more than 8000m altitude, has been missing

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Business 

UniCredit to lend 340M euro more to Eastern European SMEs

May 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

UniCredit has signed an agreement with the European Investment Fund to provide an additional 340 million euro in financing to

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Europe 

Snapchat latest IT platform to join EU Code of Conduct to fight illegal hate speech online

May 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Snap.Inc announced on May 7 2018 that it is joining the EU’s Code of Conduct on countering illegal online hate

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