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Euro crisis likely to dominate Kerry’s talks in Berlin

February 26, 2013May 27, 2013 Michael Scaturro of VOANews euro zone

With the crisis in Syria topping his agenda, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Berlin late Monday on

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s political crisis: opposition rejects acting PM’s challenge to form cabinet

February 25, 2013May 27, 2013 Alex Bivol Boiko Borissov, Sergei Stanishev

Bulgaria’s two largest opposition parties, the socialists and the predominantly ethnic Turk Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), have rejected

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Horsemeat found in Ikea meatballs

February 25, 2013May 22, 2013 VOANews

Sweden’s Ikea is pulling is pulling frozen meatballs from its shelves in stores across Europe, becoming the latest retailer to

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Bulgarian political crisis: protesters’ demands, in English

February 25, 2013February 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

On February 24, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev appeared in front of the protest rally in Sofia to accept a document

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Bulgaria’s competition watchdog fines Sofia heating utility

February 25, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on February 25 that it fined Toplofikatsiya Sofia, the state-owned heating utility

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s political crisis: Borissov challenges socialists, MRF to form government

February 25, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Rossen Plevneliev

Moments after formally turning down the offer to form a government anew, Boiko Borissov challenged the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party

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Argo wins Academy Award for best picture

February 25, 2013February 25, 2013 VOANews

Argo, the film about the Iranian hostage crisis, won the top prize at the Academy Awards Sunday in Los Angeles,

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Europe News World 

Centre-right candidate Anastasiades wins second round of Cyprus presidential election

February 24, 2013February 24, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Nicos Anastasiades, a 66-year-old centre-right leader, won the second round of presidential elections in Cyprus on February 24 2013 with

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s new Patriarch offers public prayer for unity of nation

February 24, 2013February 24, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The newly-elected Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Neofit, offered a public prayer at his enthronement ceremony at Sofia’s Alexander

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