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At Friends of Syrian People meeting, Bulgaria joins call for tougher sanctions against Assad regime

July 6, 2012July 6, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Full responsibility for the violence in Syria lies with the regime and the Syrian people are put into a position

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Bulgarians rarely marry foreigners, statistics show

July 6, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria ranked at the tail end of European statistics on intermarriage with foreign nationals, the European Union’s statistics bureau Eurostat

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Bulgaria News 

Plovdiv building of Bulgaria’s ‘Banitsa Bandit’ searched for missing 1.5M leva

July 6, 2012July 6, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Investigators searched the basement of the apartment building of Bulgaria’s ‘Banitsa Bandit’, Georgi Enev, on July 6 2012 in a

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Computer virus could cut Internet access for 250 000 PCs worldwide – FBI

July 6, 2012July 6, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

About 250 000 computers worldwide still carried a computer virus that would cut their Internet access on July 9 if

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Ahead of Paris gathering of Friends of Syria, Bulgaria offers to host next meeting

July 5, 2012July 5, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Representatives of more than 90 countries and of the Syrian opposition are to gather in Paris on July 6 2012

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian authorities say Vitosha blaze contained – again

July 5, 2012July 5, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov became the latest public official on July 5 to declare that the forest fire on

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Bulgaria News 

More than half of Bulgarians see situation in country as ‘unbearable’ – poll

July 5, 2012July 5, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

More than half of Bulgarians polled in a survey in May 2012 saw the situation in the country as “unbearable”

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Bulgarian police seizes 12 tonnes of hashish

July 5, 2012July 5, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian police have seized 12 tonnes of hashish from a warehouse in the village of Mirovyane on the outskirts of

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Thousands of tourists left abroad as Polish travel agency files for bankruptcy

July 5, 2012July 5, 2012 The Warsaw Voice

The Polish authorities have scrambled to help over 4,500 bewildered and angry tourists on holiday in 10 different countries, including

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