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Ready for round two in Czech presidential elections

January 18, 2013January 17, 2013 Jonathan Crane of The Prague Post

Arms raised and smiling for the cameras, Karel Schwarzenberg looked like a man who had just won a boxing match

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Greek court upholds sentence against Bulgarian pilot in Helios Airways crash case

January 17, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

An appellate court in Greece has confirmed the 123-year imprisonment sentence against Yanko Stoimenov in connection with the 2005 Helios

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Europe News World 

Russian court rejects Pussy Riot member appeal

January 17, 2013 VOANews

A Russian court has rejected a request to release an imprisoned member of the Pussy Riot band. Maria Alyokhina asked

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Bulgaria Business Europe News 

New car sales in Bulgaria slightly up in 2012 year-on-year – unlike EU trend

January 16, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

New car sales in Bulgaria in 2012 were 1.6 per cent higher than in 2011, while overall the downtrend trend

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Europe News 

EU-brokered dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo resumes

January 15, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bilateral dialogue brokered by the European Union between Belgrade and Priština was scheduled to resume in Brussels on January 15

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgarians await outcome of Greek appeal court ruling in Helios Airways 2005 crash case

January 15, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s transport carriers union and supporters of Yanko Stoimenov, sentenced by a Greek court for 123 years in jail in

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgarians among group jailed by Czech court for forging documents

January 15, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Czech Republic

A court in the Czech Republic has jailed a group of seven, including two Bulgarians, four Russians and a Moldovan,

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Business Europe News 

Euro zone industrial production still shrinking

January 14, 2013May 22, 2013 VOANews

The eurozone says its industrial production fell for the third straight month in November, the latest signal that the currency

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Europe News 

Slovakia still in talks over steel mill

January 14, 2013 Beata Balogova of The Slovak Spectator

Reports last year about the potential sale of the country’s largest steelworks and one of the flagship United States investments

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