| July 25, 2007 | -
Bulgarian medics who allegedly infected 426 Libyan children with HIV were pardoned and released by their home government.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| January 14, 2007 | - Europeans were traveling to Bulgaria to purchase Boza beer, which allegedly increases bust size. “I've bought a case for my wife to try out,” said one Romanian man. “I really hope I see an improvement.”
| Source:
All Headline News
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| October 13, 2005 | -
Avian flu arrived in Romania and Turkey. In response, Bulgaria refused entry to a flock of 20 circus doves that had been performing in Turkey.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Reuters
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| August 27, 2005 | -
Europe, previously burning, was flooding. Floods killed 33 people in Romania, and parts of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria, and Poland were under water.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 21, 2005 | -
Iraqi militants shot down a commercial helicopter, killing ten passengers; they then shot the sole survivor, the helicopter's Bulgarian pilot, and distributed a video of the shooting on the Internet.
| Source:
ABC News
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| April 13, 2005 | - The European Union decided to admit Bulgaria and Romania in 2007.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 7, 2005 | - At around the same time, U.S. troops in Iraq accidentally shot and killed a Bulgarian soldier.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 3, 2004 | -
Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia joined NATO; Russia was unhappy about NATO forces creeping so close to its border.
| Source: New York Times
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| December 28, 2003 | - Two Thai and five Bulgarian soldiers and seven Iraqis were killed in four major coordinated car-bomb attacks by guerrillas in Karbala; 500 Bulgarians were evacuated from the area, because their base was destroyed.
| Source: Washington Post, Reuters
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| May 28, 2002 | -
Pope John Paul II traveled to Bulgaria as part of his continuing mission to unify the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox churches.
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