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Bulgaria to test alarm siren system in 11 cities on October 1

September 30, 2015October 1, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas, Plovdiv, Rousse, Sofia, Varna

The alarm system in 11 cities in Bulgaria and in places within the 30km zone around Kozloduy nuclear power station

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Bulgarian President Plevneliev: War in Syria must be stopped at all costs

September 30, 2015September 30, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev

The position of Bulgaria and the entire democratic world on Syria is adamant – a dictator who bombed thousands of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to extradite man to Austria over migrant death lorry charges

September 30, 2015September 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The district court in the Bulgarian town of Montana has ordered the extradition to Austria of a Bulgarian man facing

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Bulgaria 

Migration crisis, good neighbourliness on agenda as foreign ministers from Sofia and Skopje meet

September 29, 2015September 29, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov held talks with his counterpart from Skopje, Nikola Poposki, in New York on September 29,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Constitutional Court rejects application against contracts with banks on foreign debt issue

September 29, 2015September 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court has rejected an application by a group of members of Parliament for the annulment of the contracts

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Bulgaria licences new regional radio that will broadcast partly in Turkish

September 29, 2015September 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Media

Bulgaria’s broadcast regulator the Council for Electronic Media (CEM) has issued a licence for public broadcaster Bulgarian National Radio to

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Bulgaria 

Sofia City Court dismisses case against former PM Stanishev over losing secret documents

September 28, 2015September 29, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary, Sergei Stanishev

Sofia City Court dismissed on September 28 the case against socialist MEP and former Bulgarian prime minister Sergei Stanishev for

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria declares ‘Code Red’ dangerous weather warning for Bourgas

September 28, 2015September 29, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas, Varna, Veliko Turnovo

Bulgaria has declared a “Code Red” warning of very dangerous weather for the region of Bourgas on the Black Sea

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Bulgaria 

63% of Bulgarians see refugee influx as danger to the country – poll

September 28, 2015September 29, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

Sixty-three per cent of Bulgarians see the refugee influx as a danger to the country, according to a poll by

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