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US Army Europe Band to hold free concert in Sofia to celebrate Independence Day

June 28, 2019June 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The US embassy in Sofia is bringing the United States Army Europe Band to Sofia to celebrate America’s Independence Day

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian prosecutors file lawsuit against former Sofia deputy mayor

June 21, 2019June 21, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Bulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on June 21 that it formally filed the lawsuit against former Sofia deputy mayor for transport

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Bulgaria 

Lightning kills man in Sofia, second such incident in two days

June 18, 2019June 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

A 47-year-old man died in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia on the evening of June 17 after being struck by lightning,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s capital Sofia one of eight sites picked to host European world-class supercomputers

June 7, 2019June 8, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking, EuroHPC, has selected eight sites for supercomputing centres located in eight different EU countries to

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Ancient tomb found near Sofia’s Alexander Nevsky cathedral

May 26, 2019May 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Sofia

An ancient burial chamber, of bricks and masonry and estimated to date from the third to fourth century CE, has

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Bulgaria 

Mayor: Number of foreign tourists visiting Sofia up 82% in past 10 years

April 23, 2019April 24, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, tourism

The number of foreign tourists visiting Sofia has increased by 82 per cent in the past 10 years, mayor Yordanka

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Bulgaria 

High-power cable to luxury building in Sofia illegally drained 7000 leva electricity a month

April 21, 2019April 23, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Staff of power distribution company CEZ and police have discovered that a high-power cable had been used to illegally supply

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian capital Sofia to buy 10 trams from Prague

April 18, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The city council in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia voted on April 18 to approve the purchase for 400 000 leva (about

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry: Crime in Sofia down close to 10% in 2018

April 2, 2019April 3, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The number of criminal offences registered in Sofia in 2018 was 9.7 per cent lower than the year before, Bulgaria’s

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