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1906 Apr 17 |
In France the wife of a miner who had refused to strike was attacked by 150 women in her home in the Pas de Calais district. Links: France, Labor, Mad Woman 
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1985 Jan |
Alice Auma (1956-2007) became possessed by a spirit she called Lakwena. She later described him as an Italian army captain who drowned in the Nile in the first world war. Links: Uganda, Mad Woman
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1986 Aug |
In Uganda the Holy Spirit Mobile Forces (HSMF), a Christian fundamentalist revolt, began under the leadership of Alice Lakwena (1956-2007). The movement was crushed by the army and Lakwena fled to Kenya where she was imprisoned in 1987. Links: Uganda, Mad Woman
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1988 May 20 |
30-year-old Laurie Dann walked into a Winnetka, Ill., elementary school classroom, where she shot to death 8-year-old Nicholas Corwin and wounded several other children. After wounding a young man at his home, Dann took her own life. Links: Suicide, Illinois, Murder, Mad Woman
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1989 Jun 14 |
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was arrested for slapping a Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman. Links: USA, California, Filmstar, Mad Woman
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1989 Sep 29 |
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was convicted of battery for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer who had pulled over her Rolls-Royce for expired license plates. As part of her sentence, Gabor served three days in jail. Links: USA, California, Filmstar, Mad Woman
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1995 Jul 18 |
Opening statements were presented in the trial of Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman charged with drowning her two young sons. Links: USA, Murder, South Carolina, Mad Woman
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1995 Jul 28 |
A jury in Union, South Carolina, rejected the death penalty for Susan Smith, sentencing her instead to life in prison for drowning her two young sons. Smith was eligible for parole after 30 years. Links: USA, South Carolina, Mad Woman
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1997 2001 |
In the Netherlands Lucia de Berk murdered 7 people in her care by giving them lethal doses of drugs. In 2004 a court sentenced her to life in jail and compulsory psychiatric treatment for killing. A high court ordered a review, ruling that the woman could not be sentenced to both life in jail and psychiatric care. In 2006 de Berk was sentenced to life in prison. Links: Netherlands, Murder, Mad Woman
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1998 Jun 30 |
Judge Joan Comparet-Cassani in Long Beach, Ca., ordered the activation of a stun belt (50,000 volts), fitted under the jail jumpsuit of defendant Ronnie Hawkins, for his repeated interruptions. Links: California, Mad Woman
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2001 Jun 20 |
Andrea Yates (36) of Houston, Texas, drowned her 5 children, ages 6 months to 7 years, at her home near the Johnson Space Center. Yates had been under medication for post-partum depression. In 2002 a jury found Yates guilty of capital murder and sentenced her to life in prison. Her conviction was overturned in 2005 by an appeals court which ruled a prosecution expert witness gave false testimony at her trial. In 2006 a jury found her not guilty by reason of insanity. Links: USA, Murder, Texas, Mad Woman
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2002 Mar 12 |
In Houston a jury found Andrea Pia Yates (37) guilty of capital murder for drowning her 5 children. On Mar 15 she was sentenced to life in prison. Her conviction was overturned in 2005 by an appeals court which ruled a prosecution expert witness gave false testimony at her trial. In 2006 a jury found her not guilty by reason of insanity. Links: USA, Texas, Mad Woman
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2002 Mar 15 |
A Houston jury spared Andrea Yates’ life after prosecutors stopped short of demanding the death penalty for the tormented mother who’d drowned her five children in the bathtub. Yates was sentenced to life in prison; however, she was later acquitted by reason of insanity in a retrial. Links: USA, Texas, Mad Woman
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2002 Jul 24 |
In Houston, Texas, Clara Harris ran over her cheating husband with her Mercedes after catching him with his mistress. Harris (45) was convicted of murder Feb 13, 2003. Links: USA, Texas, Mad Woman
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2003 May 9 |
In Tyler, Texas, Deanna LaJune Laney (38) bludgeoned to death her 2 sons Joshua (8) and Luke (6). A toddler was in critical condition. In 2004 a jury found Laney legally insane. Links: USA, Texas, Mad Woman
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2004 Jun 22 |
Laura Medina (21) repeatedly rammed her car into another vehicle in which her boyfriend rode with a new girlfriend. A crash resulted in Castro Valley that killed Michelle Dickerson (18) of Manteca. In 2007 Medina was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Mad Woman
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2005 Jan 6 |
Andrea Yates' murder conviction for drowning her children in the bathtub on June 20, 2001, was overturned by a Texas appeals court. On July 26, 2006, after three days of deliberations, Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity, as defined by the state of Texas. Links: USA, Murder, Texas, Mad Woman
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2005 Aug 16 |
In Taize, France, Brother Roger, the 90-year-old founder of an ecumenical religious community dedicated to peace and reconciliation, was knifed to death by an apparently deranged Romanian woman at an evening prayer service attended by 2,500 people. Brother Roger founded the Taize religious community in 1940 emphasizing the need for all Christians to come together in peace, love and reconciliation. Links: Romania, France, Murder, Mad Woman
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2005 Oct 19 |
Lashaun Harris (23) threw her 3 children into San Francisco Bay near Fishermen's Wharf. The body of a third sibling was recovered. Harris had been staying with her children at a Salvation Army shelter in Oakland. She told authorities that voices had told her to throw her children into the water. In 2007 a judge ruled that Harris was not guilty by reason of insanity. A jury had convicted her of assault and second-degree murder. Links: USA, SF, SF Bay Area, Mad Woman
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2005 Dec 15 |
A Mexican judge committed 8 relatives to the psychiatric ward of a prison for the ritualistic slayings of two young family members that shocked Mexico with their brutality. Officials said the parents, grandparents and aunts of a 7-month-old and 13-year-old hacked a baby to death and fatally stoned a teenager earlier this month after they became convinced the girls were demons or possessed by the devil. Links: Mexico, Mad Woman
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2006 Apr 7 |
Dena Schlosser, charged with murder for cutting off her baby daughter Margaret's arms in what her lawyers portrayed as a religious frenzy, was found not guilty by reason of insanity by a judge in McKinney, Texas. Links: USA, Texas, Mad Woman
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2006 Jun 1 |
A German court jailed Sabine Hilschenz (40) for 15 years for killing eight of her newborn babies in the worst case of infanticide in the country's criminal history. She had buried them in flower pots and a fish tank at her parents’ home. Links: Germany, Murder, Mad Woman
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2006 Jul 26 |
In a dramatic turnaround from her first murder trial, a jury in Houston found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning of her children in the bathtub; she was committed to a state mental hospital. Links: USA, Texas, Mad Woman
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2006 Aug 2 |
In Oaxaca, Mexico, about 500 women banging spoons against pots and pans seized a state-run television station and broadcast a homemade video that showed police kicking protesters out of Oaxaca's main square last month. In southern Monte Orden village heavy rains caused a mountainside to give way, burying 2 homes and killing 11 people, 4 of them children. Links: Mexico, Mad Police, Mad Woman
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2006 Oct 27 |
Raijon Daniels (8) died in Richmond, Ca. His mother, Teresa Marie Moses (23), was arrested on felony charges of torture and child endangerment after the child’s body was found to be covered with chemical and rope burns, sores and other injuries all over his body. In 2009 a judge ruled that Moses was not guilty by reason of insanity. Links: USA, California, SF Bay Area, Mad Woman, Kids
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2007 Jan 12 |
In SF Mia Sagote (30) and Leslie Siliga (29) reportedly doused Leslie May (49), a homeless woman from the Tenderloin, with gasoline and burned her alive at Candlestick Point in retaliation for May’s report to police implicating them in a personal robbery. Sagote was convicted of murder, kidnapping and robbery on Oct 20, 2013. On Dec 20, 2013, Sagote was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Links: USA, SF, Murder, Fire, Mad Woman, Robbery
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2007 Jan 17 |
Alice Lakwena, a Ugandan warrior priestess who led an insurgency in the 1980s, died at a Kenyan refugee camp. She was known as Alice Auma and claimed to have been possessed by a spirit called Lakwena, which gave her spiritual powers to protect her fighters from bullets by anointing them with oil. Her cousin, Joseph Kony, is the messianic leader of the Lord's Resistance Army. Links: Kenya, Uganda, Mad Woman
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2007 Jun 8 |
Mary Winkler, who'd killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed, was sentenced in Selmer, Tenn., to three years in prison. She ended up serving 67 days in custody, 12 in jail and the rest in a mental health facility. Links: USA, Tennessee, Mad Woman
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2007 Jun 8 |
Paris Hilton was sent screaming and crying back to jail after a judge in Los Angeles ruled she had to serve out her sentence for a probation violation behind bars rather than under house arrest. Links: USA, California, Mad Woman
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2007 Sep 8 |
Deputies in Big Creek, West Virginia, found Megan Williams (20), who was sexually abused, beaten and stabbed while held captive for at least a week. She was repeatedly called a racial slur during the attacks in Big Creek, about 35 miles southwest of Charleston. Six people, all white, including a mother and son and a mother and daughter, were arrested in connection with the alleged abduction of the black woman. The suspects pleaded guilty and were sent to prison. In 2009 Williams, while living in Ohio, said she had lied about the abuse in 2007 in order to get back at her boyfriend, who had beaten her. Links: USA, Black History, West Virginia, Mad Woman
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2008 Mar 31 |
In Mexico Juana Barraza (50), a former female wrestler who terrorized Mexico City as the "Little Old Lady Killer," was sentenced to 759 years in jail for killing 16 elderly women. Links: Mexico, Murder, Mad Woman
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2009 Aug 15 |
In Kuwait a fire at a wedding tent killed 57 women and children as it consumed the structure in a blazing inferno lasting just three minutes. The bridegroom’s ex-wife was later found to be the arsonist. In 2010 a Kuwaiti appeals court confirmed a death sentence against Nasra Yussef Mohammed al-Enezi (23). She had been convicted in March of setting fire to the wedding tent as her husband took a second wife. Al-Enezi was among seven people hanged on January 25, 2017. Links: Kuwait, Tragedy, Fire, Mad Woman
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2009 Dec 24 |
At the Vatican a woman jumped a barrier and rushed at Pope Benedict XVI (82) for the second time in two years, managing to knock him down before being pulled away by security. The Vatican identified the woman involved as Susanna Maiolo (25), a Swiss-Italian national with psychiatric problems, who was immediately taken to a clinic for treatment. The pope was unhurt but retired Vatican diplomat, French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray (87), fractured his hip in the commotion. Links: Vatican, Mad Woman
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2010 Jan 25 |
In Pennsylvania Andrea Curry-Demus (40) was found to be mentally ill but guilty of 2nd degree murder and kidnapping for luring a pregnant teenager to her apartment, cutting out the baby and killing the mother. The infant, now 18 months old, was living with relatives. Links: USA, Pennsylvania, Murder, Mad Woman
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2010 Aug 10 |
In Puerto Rico Coraly Campos feuded with her partner and told him he would never see the two children again. She then beat them, stabbed them with a kitchen knife and set the house afire. Her 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son died in the attack in the city of Trujillo Alto. Campos also tried to kill herself. On March 11, 2011, Campos (21) was convicted of first-degree murder, child abuse, arson, domestic abuse and violation of weapons laws. Links: Murder, Puerto Rico, Mad Woman
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2010 Sep 9 |
In Pennsylvania Kraft worker Yvonne Hiller of northeast Philadelphia shot and killed two co-workers after she was suspended from a Kraft Foods plant. Links: USA, Pennsylvania, Murder, Mad Woman
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2011 Jan 4 |
In India school principal Rupan Pathak fatally stabbed Raj Kishore Kesri (51), a Hindu nationalist lawmaker, while he was meeting with some of his supporters at his residence in eastern Bihar state. Pathak accused Kesri of sexually harassing her over a three-year period. Kesri's guards overpowered Pathak, who is in her early 40s, and beat her up. Links: India, Murder, Mad Woman
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2011 Jan 27 |
In Tampa, Florida, Julie Powers Schenecker (50) shot her son (13) in the head as she drove him to soccer practice. She then returned home and shot her daughter (16) in the face. Both kids were killed with a .38-caliber pistol purchased a few days earlier. On May 16, 2014, she was convicte3d and sentenced to two life terms in prison. Links: USA, Murder, Florida, Mad Woman
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2011 Feb 3 |
Allison Cox, a former nanny employed by the boss of a chain of British sex shops, pleaded guilty to spiking her employer's soup with windshield washer fluid. She admitted contaminating Jacqueline Gold's food in an attempt to get the household's chef in trouble. Links: Britain, Mad Woman
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2011 Aug 29 |
In China a female staff member slashed children with a knife at a daycare center for migrant workers in Shanghai's suburban Minhang district, wounding eight children. Links: China, Mad Woman, Kids
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2011 Nov 24 |
Pakistani police in Karachi arrested Zainab Bibi (32), a woman who had killed her husband and was attempting to cook his body parts after he planned to marry another woman without her permission. Links: Pakistan, Food, Mad Woman
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2012 May 7 |
A South African man suspected of stealing a mobile phone from a woman was stoned to death by a mob in the northern town of Polokwane. Links: South Africa, Madagascar, Telecom, Mad Woman
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2012 Oct 25 |
In NYC a nanny stabbed Lucia Krim (6) and Leo Krim (2) to death. In 2018 Yoselyn Ortega (55) was convicted of murder and faced life in prison. On May 14, 2018, Ortega was sentenced to life in prison. Links: NYC, Murder, Mad Woman, Kids
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2012 Dec 21 |
Brenda Stokes Wilson (50) slashed a co-worker at the Bellagio casino in las Vegas. It was later learned that she had stabbed to death Jade Morris (10), her ex-boyfriend’s daughter, whom she was supposed to take Christmas shopping. Links: USA, Murder, Nevada, Mad Woman
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2012 Dec 27 |
In NYC Sunando Sen (46) was shoved in ront of a subway train and crushed to death in Queens. On Dec 30 Erika Menendez (31) was charged in the death. Menendez said she has hated Muslims since Sept. 11 and thought he was one. Links: USA, NYC, Murder, Mad Woman
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2012 Dec 30 |
In London Mary Konye (22) disguised herself with a veil and attacked Naomi Oni (22), leaving her with disfiguring burns on her face, a hand and a thigh. On March 21, 2014, Konye was sentenced to 12 years in jail for throwing acid on her friend's face following an argument. Links: Britain, Mad Woman
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2013 Apr 29 |
A California jury in Santa Ana convicted Catherine Kieu (50) of torture and aggravated mayhem. She was accused of drugging her husband (60) and then severing his penis and tossing it into the garbage disposal. She was jealous of his plans to divorce her because he was seeing his ex-girlfriend. On June 28 she was sentenced to life in prison. Links: USA, California, Mayhem, Sex, Mad Woman
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2013 Jun 3 |
Jasper, Texas, a town with a history of racial unrest on fired two white police officers recently captured on video slamming a black woman’s head into a countertop and wrestling her to the ground. Links: USA, Texas, Mad Police, Mad Woman
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2013 Jun 7 |
In Germany 3 topless Femen protesters were dragged by police from outside the chancellery in Berlin where they pleaded for Angela Merkel to push for the release of 4 fellow activists jailed in Tunisia. Links: Germany, Mad Woman
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2013 Jun 9 |
In Texas Alf Stefan Andersson (59), a University of Houston professor and researcher, was stabbed to death. His girlfriend Ana Trujillo (45) was later accused of stabbing Andersson in the face at least 25 times with a platform pump stiletto heel. On April 8, 2014, a jury found Trujillo guilty. On April 11 Trujillo was sentenced to life in prison. Links: USA, Murder, Texas, Mad Woman
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2013 Aug 28 |
In Mexico a woman approached a bus driver in Ciudad Juarez, took out a pistol, shot him in the head and got off. The next day, apparently the same woman did exactly the same thing to another driver on the same route. The woman was thought to be seeking revenge for purported sexual abuse of female passengers. Links: Mexico, Murder, Mad Woman
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2013 Oct 3 |
In Washington DC a dramatic car chase through the streets near the White House to the US Capitol ended in gunfire when law enforcement officers shot and killed the driver as lawmakers and aides huddled in a lockdown. The car involved in the chase was registered to Miriam Carey (34) of Connecticut. A one-year-old girl in the car was unhurt. Links: USA, DC, Mad Woman
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2013 Dec 25 |
In Arizona police found Aniarael Macias (13) dead at the home of Connie Villa (35) in Casa Grande. Villa had tried to poison her three other children and had just stabbed her ex-husband who called 911 as he drove to a hospital. Connie Villa was arrested on Dec 29 after being released from a hospital. Links: USA, Murder, Arizona, Mad Woman
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2014 Apr 5 |
Chinese state media reported that kindergarten headmaster Shi Haixia and a man were sentenced to death in a poisoning case that left two girls dead. Haixia was upset that a rival school had better enrollments and injected rat poison into a bottle of yogurt. She then asked her accomplice to place it on the road in late April 2013, with a notebook and a pencil in a plastic bag on the way to the other kindergarten in Pingshan County, Hebei province. Links: China, Mad Woman, Education, Kids
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2014 Apr 13 |
In Utah Megan Huntsman (39) was arrested after police reported tiny bodies stuffed into separate cardboard boxes in the garage of her former home in Pleasant Grove. She had 7 babies between 1996 and 2006. Estranged husband Darren West discovered the bodies a day earlier while cleaning out the garage. On April 28 she was charged with 6 counts of 1st degree murder. On April 20, 2015, Huntsman was sentenced to at least 30 years in prison. Links: USA, Utah, Mad Woman
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2014 May 12 |
In Spain Isabel Carrasco (b.1955), a local bigwig in the People’s Party of PM Mariano Rajoy, was shot dead by the mother of a young woman who had been let go from her government job. Links: Spain, Murder, Mad Woman
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2014 Jul 1 |
In southern California CHP Officer Daniel Andrew stopped, stradded and pummeled Marlene Pinnock (51) at the 10 Freeway La Brea Avenue exit. The woman had been walking barefoot along the freeway. A video of the incident was posted on YouTube causing widespread outrage. On Sep 24 Los Angeles agreed pay Pinnock $1.5 million and officer Andrew agreed to resign. Links: USA, California, Mad Police, Mad Woman
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2014 Jul 4 |
In southern France the mother of a pupil at a pre-school in Albi stabbed a teacher (34) to death in front of her class on the last day of the school year. Links: France, Mad Woman, Education
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2014 Oct 14 |
In the Czech Rep. a woman, diagnosed with schizophrenia, stabbed a male student (16) to death and wounded two girls and a police negotiator in a rampage at a secondary school in Zdar nad Sazavou. The woman had already stabbed a teacher in an elementary school canteen full of children near Ostrava in May 2012. Links: Czech Rep., Mad Woman
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2014 Nov 3 |
A Bulgarian woman (39) was rushed to hospital after setting fire to herself outside the president's office, as Pres. Rosen Plevneliev discussed the formation of a new government following an inconclusive election last month. Links: Bulgaria, Mad Woman
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