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Polish PM refuses to accept sports minister’s resignation

October 26, 2012October 25, 2012 The Warsaw Voice

Prime Minister Donald Tusk Wednesday said he has not accepted Sports Minister Joanna Mucha’s resignation over a fiasco that saw

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Europe News 

Czech Republic: Who’s to blame for methanol poisoning?

October 26, 2012October 25, 2012 Jonathan Crane of The Prague Post

The wave of deaths from methanol poisoning could have been avoided if successive Czech governments had not willfully ignored the

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Europe News 

Ukraine blames ‘foreign’ security forces in Russian activist’s disappearance

October 26, 2012October 25, 2012 VOANews

Ukrainian officials say foreign security agencies are responsible for the disappearance of a Russian opposition activist, who said he was

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Bulgaria News 

Reporters Without Borders slams action by four Bulgarian banks against website

October 26, 2012October 26, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Reporters Without Borders said on October 24 2012 that it strongly condemns the proceedings that four banks have initiated through

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Bulgaria News 

PM fires police spokesperson for calling man who photographed sleeping police a ‘fool’

October 26, 2012October 26, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov ordered the Interior Ministry to fire Varna police spokesperson Kalinka Pencheva after she publicly called

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarian Parliament passes deposit interest tax

October 25, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian MPs approved at first reading on October 25 amendments to the country’s tax laws that will make interest on

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian state lottery jackpot set to hit 5.5 million leva

October 25, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

An estimated 5.5 million leva (about 2.8 million euro) are expected to be up for grabs in one of the

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Bulgaria News 

Months after disasters, some residents of Bulgaria’s Bisser and Pernik still awaiting relief

October 25, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Eight months after fatal flooding hit the village of Bisser and five months after the mining town of Pernik was

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News World 

Obama, Romney concentrate on ‘swing states’

October 25, 2012 VOANews

U.S. President Barack Obama is crisscrossing the nation on a marathon campaign tour Thursday, while Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney

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