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UN war crimes court acquits two Milosevic allies

May 31, 2013 Lisa Bryant of VOANews Serbia

A United Nations war crimes court has acquitted two key allies of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. The men were

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

What is to become of them?

May 31, 2013June 9, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Plamen Oresharski, Rossen Plevneliev, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

Gazing on Bulgaria’s newly-elected 42nd National Assembly and the personalities that dominated that day of high drama that was the

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Asteroid 1998 QE2 to make close encounter

May 31, 2013 VOANews final frontier

A 2.7-kilometer-wide asteroid will pass within 5.8 million kilometers of Earth on Friday, May 31, and while it poses no

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

What’s On: Children’s festival in Sofia’s South Park

May 31, 2013May 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria celebrates the Day of the Child on June 1, and among planned events is a childrens’ festival on June

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Europe News 

Moldova’s pro-EU parties form new government coalition, invest cabinet

May 31, 2013 Alex Bivol Moldova

Moldova’s parliament elected a new speaker and invested a new cabinet headed by Iurie Leanca on May 30 after the

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Bulgaria Europe News World 

On World No-Tobacco Day, Bulgaria faces new smoking ban debate

May 30, 2013May 30, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer smoking

As annual World No-Tobacco Day is marked on May 31 2013, with the World Health Organisation and European Union among

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry chief secretary, security agency chief quit as new government takes over: Updated

May 30, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Tsvetlin Yovchev

Interior Ministry chief secretary Kalin Georgiev has resigned, Bulgaria’s new Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev said on May 30 2013, while

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Parliament passes maternity leave hike

May 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Parliament passed at first reading on May 30 two bills that envision raising maternity leave to 310 leva a

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Business Europe News 

EU and euro zone economic, business sentiment pick up in May

May 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Economic and business sentiment in the European Union and euro zone improved in May 2013, according to survey results released

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