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Fighting continues in Syria

July 31, 2012July 31, 2012 VOANews

Syrian opposition activists have reported widespread clashes Tuesday, including continued fighting in the country’s largest city, Aleppo. The Britain-based Syrian

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Investigators get clearer picture of Bourgas terrorist bomber’s face

July 30, 2012July 30, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Investigators probing the July 18 suicide bombing attack against a group of Israeli tourists at Sarafovo Airport in Bourgas have

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Bourgas terrorist’s fake driving licence was used in Plovdiv five years ago

July 27, 2012July 27, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The fake Michigan driving licence found on the corpse of the suicide bomber who committed the July 18 Bourgas Airport

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Facebook loses money despite 30% increase in revenue

July 27, 2012July 27, 2012 VOANews

Facebook, the world’s most popular social network website, says it lost money during the second quarter of the year, despite

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London readies for Olympic Games opening

July 27, 2012July 27, 2012 VOANews

London is welcoming around 10,000 athletes, hundreds of thousands of visitors and a worldwide television audience for the formal opening

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Russia Watch: Linguistic future — Ukrainians who do not speak Russian?

July 27, 2012June 2, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia, Ukraine

It’s a sunny summer evening here in Lviv, the café and cobblestones capital of Western Ukraine. But a steady stream

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Israeli security consultant: ‘Security at Bourgas airport failed’

July 25, 2012 Alex Bivol

The security at Bourgas airport, where a terrorist attack the took the lives of five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian

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Bulgaria condemns spate of bomb attacks in Iraq

July 25, 2012July 26, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria categorically condemns the series of bombings and attacks in Iraq in recent days in which more than 100 Iraqi

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UN chief Ban’s Balkans odyssey

July 25, 2012July 25, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The Macedonia name dispute, relations between Serbia and Kosovo and “bridges” to a European future have all been on the

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