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Facebook ‘unfriending’ triggers real-life consequences

February 7, 2013February 7, 2013 VOANews

Facebook users who decide to unfriendsomeone may trigger a series of real-life consequences which reach beyondcyberspace, according to a new study from

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Human Rights Watch: Russia is exploiting Sochi Olympic workers

February 7, 2013February 6, 2014 VOANews Sochi Olympics

An international rights group has released a report alleging abuse of migrant workers at construction sites for the 2014 Winter

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Hezbollah website highlights Bulgarian socialists’ Stanishev’s dissent on blame for Bourgas terrorist attack

February 6, 2013June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas terrorist attack, Sergei Stanishev

The criticism levelled by opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev of the Bulgarian government’s statement that the investigation into

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Bulgarian Cabinet asks Parliament for Bourgas-Alexandroupolis exit

February 6, 2013May 22, 2013 Alex Bivol energy

Bulgaria’s Cabinet said on February 6 that it has filed an motion in Parliament to exit the intergovernmental agreement with

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Bulgarian Cabinet approves 150M leva for infrastructure projects

February 6, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff motorways

Bulgaria’s Government approved on February 6 the allocation of 150 million leva to ongoing infrastructure projects, the Government’s media office

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Parliament confirms Stefan Vodenicharov as Education Minister

February 6, 2013February 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Parliament voted on February 6 to confirm the president of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Stefan Vodenicharov, as the

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We know where the Bourgas suicide bomber’s accomplices are, Bulgarian official says

February 6, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas terrorist attack

The identities and current location of the three accomplices of the Bourgas Airport terrorist suicide bomber, who took the lives

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Bulgaria News 

Two-thirds of Bulgarians (and a third of smokers) approve public smoking ban – poll

February 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Sixty-one per cent of Bulgarians polled in January 2013 approve of the full ban on smoking in public places such

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Chernobyl cleanup workers demand billion euro in unpaid pensions

February 6, 2013 Svitlana Tuchynska of The Kyiv Post

Hundreds of Chornobyl nuclear disaster cleanup workers protested outside Ukraine’s parliament when the legislature held its first session this year

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