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SOFIA, Bulgaria AP 鈥?Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov announced his resignation after exit polls showed his party losing badly in Sunday s runoff presidential election.Surveys by several polling organizations showed Gen. Rumen Radev, 53, a former non-partisan chief of Bulgarian Air Force, taking about 58 percent of the vote. We accept the will of the people and we congratulate those who have the support of the majority of the voters, Borisov said.Tsetska Tsacheva, a 58-year-old lawyer and member of Borisov s center-right party, had about 36 percent.Initial results from the official vote count were expected later on Sunday.The new president will face a possible rise in migrants from neighboring Turkey and growing tensions between Russia and the West.In the first round of v air force 1 oting, Radev surprisingly finished first with 25 percent of the vote, followed by Tsacheva with 22 percent.Bulgaria, which joined the European Union a decade ago, remains the poorest member of the 28-nation bloc. Its 7.2 million people are very much divided in its loyalties.Bulgaria belongs to NATO and the EU, but many Bulgarians s reebok classic till feel a cultural and historical affinity with Russia, and the country s heavily dependence on Russian energy supplies leaves it vulnerable to political pressure by the Kremlin.Borisov, whose party has triumphed in all national elections in the last decade, has said he will resign if Tsacheva loses the run adidas samba uomo off, opening the way to an early parliamentary election. Halfway i
When pitcher Cory Lidle was traded by the Philadelphia Phillies to the New York Yankees this summer, his flying became an issue.Lidle, who had been with the Phillies since 2004, made some disparaging comments about his former teammates, and one of them brought up the pitcher s love of flying in his retort. The only thing Cory Lidle wants to do is fly around in his airplane and gamble, relief pitcher Arthur Rhodes told reporters.Lidle loved to play poker: He hosted a benefit poker tournament in Las Vegas for the last two years, raising money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. But a New York Times article published a month ago noted that flying was the pitcher s passion. Lidle began taking flying lessons the day after the 2005 season ended, eventually earning his pilot s license. He told the Times he bought his Cirrus SR20 airplane for $187,000 that same off-seaso stanley water bottle n. Lidle and a passenger were killed on Wednesday when that plane hit a high-rise building on the East Side of Manhattan.Flying his plane would have been a tough sell for Lidle if he stanley canada had re-signed with the Yankees for the 2007 season. Not only would flying be outside the rules of the team s standard contract, but the Yankees have a sad history with plane crashes. Their All-star catcher and team captain, Thurman Munson, was killed while practic stanley drink bottle ing takeoffs and landings near his Ohio home on Aug. 2, 1979. Still, Lidle thought his outside-of-baseball activities were safe. The w Moci House GOP, Priebus meet on convention rules
SOFIA, Bulgaria AP 鈥?Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov announced his resignation after exit polls showed his party losing badly in Sunday s runoff presidential election.Surveys by several polling organizations showed Gen. Rumen Radev, 53, a former non-partisan chief of Bulgarian Air Force, taking about 58 percent of the vote. We accept the will of the people and we congratulate those who have the support of the majority of the voters, Borisov said.Tsetska Tsacheva, a 58-year-old lawyer and member of Borisov s center-right party, had about 36 percent.Initial results from the official vote count were expected later on Sunday.The new president will face a possible rise in migrants from neighboring Turkey and growing tensions between Russia and the West.In the first round of v air force 1 oting, Radev surprisingly finished first with 25 percent of the vote, followed by Tsacheva with 22 percent.Bulgaria, which joined the European Union a decade ago, remains the poorest member of the 28-nation bloc. Its 7.2 million people are very much divided in its loyalties.Bulgaria belongs to NATO and the EU, but many Bulgarians s reebok classic till feel a cultural and historical affinity with Russia, and the country s heavily dependence on Russian energy supplies leaves it vulnerable to political pressure by the Kremlin.Borisov, whose party has triumphed in all national elections in the last decade, has said he will resign if Tsacheva loses the run adidas samba uomo off, opening the way to an early parliamentary election. Halfway i