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Bulgarian explorer, flag reach South Pole

January 8, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Hristo Pimpirev became the first Bulgarian to set foot on the South Pole on January 8, flying the country’s flag

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Bulgaria News 

First television debate scheduled for Bulgaria’s referendum on nuclear energy

January 8, 2013January 8, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Public broadcaster Bulgaria National Television will host the first television debate on January 9 2013 on the country’s forthcoming referendum

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarians spent 4B leva during Festive Season

January 8, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarians spent four billion leva during the 2012 Festive Season and the period immediately before, the country’s National Revenue Agency

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Bulgaria Business Europe News 

EU retail trade up 0.2% in November 2012

January 8, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The volume of retail trade in the European Union rose by 0.2 per cent in November 2012, according to estimates

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Europe News 

Europol targets payment card fraud with new cybercrime unit

January 8, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The new European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), which officially launches this week at Europol in The Hague, will be the focal

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Bulgaria Business Europe News 

Euro zone unemployment reached new record in November 2012 – Eurostat

January 8, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

More than two million people in the European Union lost their jobs between November 2011 and November 2012, bringing unemployment

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World Bank sanctions Serbian company for misconduct in Uganda project

January 8, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The World Bank Group has announced the debarment of Energoprojekt Niskogradnja, a Serbian civil engineering and contracting company – for

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Europe News World 

UN war crimes trial of Hadzic resumes

January 8, 2013 Stefan Bos of VOANews

The trial of former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic, the last fugitive sought by the United Nations Yugoslav war crimes

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Bulgaria News 

Prosecutor fired from team investigating Bourgas terrorist attack for giving extensive media interview

January 7, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

A prosecutor who gave a Bulgarian-language daily an extensive interview disclosing details of the investigation into the July 2012 suicide

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