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Polish officials concerned about Strasbourg decision to declassify documents on alleged CIA prisons in Poland

February 6, 2013 The Warsaw Voice

Former prime minister Leszek Miller once again reiterated that there had never been any CIA prisons in Poland, while commenting

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US, Israel welcome Bulgaria’s findings on Bourgas attack

February 5, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas terrorist attack

Officials from the US and Israel, two countries that have long asserted Hezbollah’s culpability for the terrorist attack that killed

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Bulgaria officially links Hezbollah to Bourgas bombing in July 2012

February 5, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas terrorist attack, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Bulgaria’s Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said on February 5 that Bulgarian investigators had found evidence that the suicide bombing that

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EC ‘takes note’ of Bulgarian judiciary appointments in ‘oral CVM update’

February 5, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

The European Commission has delivered on February 4 “a factual update on developments in Bulgaria” to the European Council in

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Fifa confirms Bulgaria’s one-match empty stadium ban

February 5, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Fifa has confirmed the sanction imposed on Bulgaria’s national football team, which will play its next competitive match in front

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Minority parties in Bulgaria milk ‘UK immigration flood’ hysteria

February 5, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The disinformation campaign in some British media and political circles about a supposed flood of Bulgarians and Romanians that will

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Earth prepares for close encounter with asteroid

February 5, 2013February 5, 2013 VOANews

Earth is about to have a close encounter with an asteroid, the nearest an object of its size has ever

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Europe News 

Managers of Ukrainian state arms exporter arrested for $200 000 bribe in Kazakhstan

February 5, 2013 Oksana Grytsenko of The Kyiv Post

Two top managers of a Ukrainian state-run arms exporter are in a Kazakh prison for allegedly attempting to bribe a

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Millions of euro involved in widespread football match-fixing in Europe, Europol says

February 4, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

A major investigation involving Europol and police teams from 13 European countries has uncovered an extensive criminal network involved in

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