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Bucharest mayor contemplates hosting 2020 Olympics
While visiting the Lia Manoliu stadium that is under construction and set to become Romanias largest sports arena next year, Bucharest General Mayor Sorin Oprescu stated that he would like Bucharest to host the Olympic Games in 2020. I am already thinking of hosting the Olympic Games sometime around 2020, he stated for hotnews.ro.
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Romanian lawmakers restore powers to anti-corruption body
(BUCHAREST ) - Romanian senators voted in Tuesday a law restoring full powers to an anti-corruption body tasked with verifying the wealth of public officials, in accord with European Union recommendations.
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Romanian nurse arrested after maternity fire
A court in Romania ruled Tuesday to imprison a nurse, following a blaze that killed five newborns and injured six others at a maternity hospital in Bucharest.
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Romania and Russia, rivals just like in 1942
by Ana-Maria Sp? Analyzing the Romanian diplomatist's arrest, accused of attempt to obtain secret military information from a Russian citizen, the online publication Forum.msk evokes a similar case that happened in 2009. At that time, a Bulgarian citizen and a Romanian officer were arrested in Bucharest, with the accusation of having been spied either for Russia, or for Ukraine. Later, the ...
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Romania nabs 36 illegal migrants in animal food load
BUCHAREST Romanian and Hungarian border police caught 36 illegal migrants from Iraq and Afghanistan hiding in a lorry carrying a load of animal food, the Romanian police said Sunday.
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Poverty forces Roma to leave Bulgaria and Romania
BUCHAREST (AFP) - Europe's Roma communities, at the centre of an immigration row in France, are often driven out by poverty from their homes in Romania and Bulgaria, the European Union's two most impoverished members.
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Poverty forces Roma to leave Bulgaria and Romania
BUCHAREST (AFP) - Europe's Roma communities, at the centre of an immigration row in France, are often driven out by poverty from their homes in Romania and Bulgaria, the European Union's two most impoverished members.
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US envoy slams central bank over 'antisemitic' Romanian coin
BUCHAREST (AFP) - The US ambassador in Romania on Friday slammed a central bank decision to go on selling a coin depicting an inter-war leader with anti-Semitic views despite criticism from the Holocaust Museum in Washington.
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Romanian President reacts to deportations
In Romania as the first of the Roma people arrived in Bucharest from France there has been official reaction. The countrys foreign minister said he was worried about what he called, xenophobic reactions to the campaign.
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Romania awaits Roma expelled from France
(BUCHAREST ) - A total of 93 Roma were expected to arrive in Romania on Thursday on regular flights from France following a French clampdown on the minority, the interior ministry said.
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10 Israeli doctors arrive in Romania to assist 7 premature babies hurt in hospital fire
Romanian officials say 10 Israeli doctors have arrived in Romania to treat seven premature babies who are in critical condition after a fire in an intensive care unit in a Bucharest hospital in ...
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Romania To Expel Russian Diplomat In Retaliation
(RTTNews) - Romania's Foreign Ministry has announced that Moscow had been told that a Russian diplomat would be expelled from Bucharest in retaliation to the expulsion of a Romanian diplomat from Moscow a day earlier.
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Romania expels Russian diplomat
Romania's Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday evening the expulsion of a Russian diplomat in Bucharest.
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Romania orders tit-for-tat expulsion of Russian diplomat
BUCHAREST (AFP) - Romania ordered the tit-for-tat expulsion of a Russian diplomat on Tuesday, a day after a Romanian embassy official was told by Moscow to leave Russia for spying.
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Romania to expel Russian diplomat in espionage row
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Foreign Ministry moved to expel a Russian diplomat working at the Bucharest embassy on Tuesday after Moscow detained a senior Romanian diplomat on allegations of espionage.
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Three babies killed in Romania hospital explosion
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Three newborn babies were killed in a Romanian maternity ward on Monday in an explosion caused by an electrical fault, a senior health official said.
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Three babies killed in Romania hospital explosion
Source: Reuters BUCHAREST, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Three newborn babies were killed in a Romanian maternity ward on Monday in an explosion caused by an electrical fault, a senior health official said. Eight babies were ...
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EADS Defence & Security demonstrate latest TETRA Capabilities in Romania
Bucharest | Capabilities of the EADS TETRA network were shown by EADS Defence & Security (DS) during a TETRA Demonstration, in the context of the Romanian border protection and compliance to the...
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Romania grants 17,000 Moldovans citizenship in 2010: Basescu
(BUCHAREST ) - Some 17,000 Moldovans have received Romanian citizenship this year, a reparation for an "abuse" dating from the Soviet era, Romanian president Traian Basescu said Friday.
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Jewish group blasts Israel's Peres over Holocaust in Romania
BUCHAREST (AFP) - The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization, on Friday criticized Israeli President Shimon Peres who paid tribute to Romania for "rescuing 400,000 Jews" during World War II.
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