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US, Israel welcome Bulgaria’s findings on Bourgas attack

February 5, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas terrorist attack

Officials from the US and Israel, two countries that have long asserted Hezbollah’s culpability for the terrorist attack that killed

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Bulgaria Europe News 

EC ‘takes note’ of Bulgarian judiciary appointments in ‘oral CVM update’

February 5, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

The European Commission has delivered on February 4 “a factual update on developments in Bulgaria” to the European Council in

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Minority parties in Bulgaria milk ‘UK immigration flood’ hysteria

February 5, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The disinformation campaign in some British media and political circles about a supposed flood of Bulgarians and Romanians that will

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Europe News 

Managers of Ukrainian state arms exporter arrested for $200 000 bribe in Kazakhstan

February 5, 2013 Oksana Grytsenko of The Kyiv Post

Two top managers of a Ukrainian state-run arms exporter are in a Kazakh prison for allegedly attempting to bribe a

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Millions of euro involved in widespread football match-fixing in Europe, Europol says

February 4, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

A major investigation involving Europol and police teams from 13 European countries has uncovered an extensive criminal network involved in

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgaria expresses condolences, condemns suicide bombing attack at US embassy in Ankara

February 1, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Nikolai Mladenov, Turkey

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov sent letters of condolences to his counterparts in the United States and Turkey, John Kerry

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Bulgaria Business Europe News 

EU ended 2012 with 10.7% unemployment – Eurostat

February 1, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The 27-member European Union ended 2012 with 10.7 per cent unemployment in December, seasonally adjusted, according to EU statistics office

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgaria responds to ‘flood of migration to UK’ hysteria

February 1, 2013May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgarian leaders have responded to the hysteria being whipped up in some British publications and by the UKIP about a

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Europe News 

Armenian presidential candidate shot

February 1, 2013 VOANews

Armenian police say a gunman has shot and wounded one of the country’s eight presidential candidates. Authorities say Paruir Airikian

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