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US congress reconvenes facing budget challenge

November 13, 2012November 13, 2012 VOANews

US lawmakers resume their work Tuesday facing the major task of finding an agreement on how to deal with $600

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarian annual inflation at 4.4 per cent in October

November 13, 2012November 13, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s year-on-year consumer price inflation was 4.4 per cent in October, receding from a 12-month high in September, when it

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Bulgaria News 

Record haul of contraband cigarettes in Bulgaria

November 13, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Customs officers in Sofia seized a consignment of contraband cigarettes of a record value of seven million leva (about 3.5

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Bulgaria News 

Holy Synod to meet on Patriarch election preparations but Plovdiv Metropolitan to stay away for 40 days

November 13, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The Holy Synod, the governing body of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, is to meet on November 14 2012 to discuss

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EU puts year-long freeze on airline carbon tax

November 13, 2012May 22, 2013 VOANews

The European Union is putting a year-long freeze on a controversial rule that all airlines flying in and out of

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Europe News 

Two more victims of Smolensk crash exhumed

November 13, 2012 The Warsaw Voice

Polish military prosecutors said Monday that they had exhumed remains of another two victims of the 2010 Smolensk, Russia, plane

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South Stream Hungarian pipeline approval a ‘long-term benefit’

November 13, 2012June 2, 2013 The Budapest Times energy, Hungary, South Stream

Following the final investment decision being approved for the South Stream gas pipeline from Russia, deputy chairman of the Gazprom

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Russia Watch: Reset the Reset: Can Russia’s Putin make peace with Obama II?

November 13, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

The reset jet no longer flies to Moscow. In March of 2009, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Hillary Clinton,

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria controversial judge refuses to stand down in Constitutional Court contretemps

November 12, 2012May 22, 2013 Alex Bivol judiciary

Veneta Markovska, the judge whose election to Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court last month has stirred controversy, has refused to step down

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