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Bulgarian explorer, flag reach South Pole

January 8, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Hristo Pimpirev became the first Bulgarian to set foot on the South Pole on January 8, flying the country’s flag

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World Bank sanctions Serbian company for misconduct in Uganda project

January 8, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The World Bank Group has announced the debarment of Energoprojekt Niskogradnja, a Serbian civil engineering and contracting company – for

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UN war crimes trial of Hadzic resumes

January 8, 2013 Stefan Bos of VOANews

The trial of former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic, the last fugitive sought by the United Nations Yugoslav war crimes

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Record interest in Nazi Holocaust Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp

January 6, 2013January 16, 2013 VOANews

Officials at  World War Two Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland say the site hosted a record number of tourists in

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Milky Way could contain 100 billion planets

January 6, 2013January 7, 2013 Matthew Hilburn of VOANews

It seems like hardly a week goes by without another planet being discovered in some far off stellar system, but

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Water found in two-billion-year-old Mars rock

January 4, 2013 VOANews

Scientists examining a 2 billion-year-old rock from Mars that landed in the Sahara desert say it holds a large amount

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Investigators establish identity of one of accomplices in Bourgas Airport terrorist bombing

January 3, 2013January 3, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Investigators have established the identity of one of the accomplices in the July 2012 suicide bombing terrorist attack against a

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Countdown to first meteor shower of 2013

January 2, 2013 VOANews

The U.S. space agency, NASA, says pieces of an asteroid that have been orbiting the Sun for hundreds of years

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US senate votes to avert ‘Fiscal Cliff’

January 1, 2013 Michael Bowman of VOANews

The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan agreement to spare most Americans from steep tax hikes and delay across-the-board

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