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Media group: Romania must probe journalist attacks [Jan 27, 2012] (01-18) 06:26 PST BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- A media organization has called on Romanian authorities to identify and prosecute protesters and policemen who reportedly attacked nine journalists during violent... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania Protests Romanian Continue Despite Prime Minister's Calls For Unity (PHOTOS) [Jan 24, 2012] BUCHAREST, Romania ? Romania's prime minister on Tuesday used a national holiday to call for unity as thousands of protesters angry at the government's failure to reverse falling living standards turned their ire toward state media. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian PM calls for unity as thousands protest [Jan 24, 2012] BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) ? Romania's prime minister on Tuesday used a national holiday to call for unity as thousands of protesters angry at the government's failure to reverse falling living standards turned their ire toward state media. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian PM calls for unity on national holiday as thousands protest against government [Jan 24, 2012] BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania's prime minister on Tuesday used a national holiday to call for unity as thousands of protesters angry at the government's failure to reverse falling living standards turned their ire toward state media. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian PM calls for unity as thousands protest [Jan 24, 2012] Romania's prime minister on Tuesday used a national holiday to call for unity as thousands of protesters angry at the government's failure to reverse falling living standards turned their ire toward state media. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian foreign minister fired for comments on protesters [Jan 24, 2012] Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc announced Monday that he dismissed the country's foreign minister because of remarks the minister made about anti-government protesters. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania PM sacks foreign minister for protest remarks [Jan 23, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc sacked his foreign minister Monday for calling anti-government protesters "inept and violent slum-dwellers" following more than a week of sometimes violent demonstrations. Protesters in the capital Bucharest and some other cities have pelted police with bricks and Molotov cocktails during 11 days of rallies demanding Boc and President Traian ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian prime minister fires foreign minister over protest insult [Jan 23, 2012] Romania's Prime Minister Emil Boc on Monday fired the foreign minister over insulting remarks he made about anti-government protesters -- but the opposition said the move would not appease widespread public anger. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian Foreign Minister Axed for Insulting Protesters [Jan 23, 2012] Romania's Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi has been fired by the country's PM Emil Boc for his inappropriate remarks on protesters in Bucharest. "I have taken the decision to recall Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi and have forwarded a proposal to the Romanian president to remove him from his functions for the comments he made," Boc declared on Monday. Boc made the announcement about Baconschi ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania PM sacks foreign minister for remarks on protest [Jan 23, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc sacked Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi Monday for comments he made about anti-government protests, seeking to ease public anger and draw a line under more than a week of rallies. Baconschi said last week that protesters who threw bricks and Molotov cocktails at police were "inept and violent slum-dwellers" and compared them to miners who ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania PM sacks foreign minister over protests [Jan 23, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc sacked Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi on Monday for comments he made about anti-government protests, seeking to ease public anger and draw a line under more than a week of rallies. Baconschi said last week that protesters who threw bricks and Molotov cocktails at police were "inept and violent slum-dwellers" and compared them to miners ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania's PM fires foreign minister [Jan 23, 2012] Romania's Prime Minister Emil Boc has fired the foreign minister over insulting remarks he made about anti-government protesters. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian Protesters Urge Government's Ouster [Jan 20, 2012] BUCHAREST, Romania -- Thousands of protesters gathered in Romania's capital on Thursday to demand the ouster of the government and new elections, as a week of demonstrations against far-reaching austerity measures and years of difficult reforms seemed to gain strength. [via YahooNews] More >>

Police fire tear gas at Romanian protesters [Jan 20, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian riot police fired tear gas at protesters who threw bricks and bottles back at them on Thursday in Bucharest's main square where demonstrations against the government's austerity drive have taken place since last week. The police arrested up to 50 people believed to have triggered the violence including throwing metal fencing at them, according to private television ... [via YahooNews] More >>

New anti-government protests in Romania [Jan 18, 2012] ALINA WOLFE MURRAY Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania Demonstrations against Romania's harsh austerity measures took place across the country again on Wednesday, with protesters demanding the government's resignation. In Strasbourg, France, Martin Schulz, the newly elected chief of the European Parliament, said Romanian officials should take urgent economic action to improve the public's living ... [via YahooNews] More >>

New anti-government protests in Romania [Jan 18, 2012] Demonstrations against Romania's harsh austerity measures took place across the country again on Wednesday, with protesters demanding the government's resignation. [via YahooNews] More >>

Hometownstations.com-WLIO- Lima, OH News Weather SportsMedia group: Romania must probe journalist attacks [Jan 18, 2012] BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - A media organization has urged Romanian authorities to identify and prosecute protesters and policemen who reportedly attacked nine journalists during violent anti-government demonstrations. [via YahooNews] More >>

Media group: Romania must probe journalist attacks [Jan 18, 2012] ALINA WOLFE MURRAY Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania A media organization has urged Romanian authorities to identify and prosecute protesters and policemen who reportedly attacked nine journalists during violent anti-government demonstrations. The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organization said Wednesday that reporters were assaulted while covering days-long protests against austerity ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Violent austerity protests rage in Romania [Jan 17, 2012] Protesters throw items onto a fire in University Square, the scene of the first anti communist protests in 1989, in Bucharest, Romania, on Sunday. / By Octav Ganea, AP [via YahooNews] More >>

Violent austerity protests rage in Romania [Jan 16, 2012] Protesters throw items onto a fire in University Square, the scene of the first anti communist protests in 1989, in Bucharest, Romania, on Sunday. / By Octav Ganea, AP [via YahooNews] More >>