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Romania PM Boc resigns after protests [Feb 06, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Prime Minister Emil Boc resigned on Monday after weeks of nationwide protests against his tough austerity measures and before a parliamentary election due late this year. "It is the moment for important political decisions. From this point of view, I took the decision to give up the government's mandate," Boc said in a speech after a government meeting. (Reporting ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania rescues children as Europe's freeze deepens [Feb 03, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Nine Romanian children were taken into care after a baby died in an unheated house, joining at least 189 others killed by a Siberian front which strengthened its hold over Eastern Europe on Friday and spread further west. Temperatures plummeted to minus 37 Celsius (minus 35 Fahrenheit) in northern Slovakia and rescue workers dug through snow on mountain roads to rescue ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania rescues children as Europe's freeze deepens [Feb 03, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Nine Romanian children were taken into care after a baby died in an unheated house, joining at least 189 others killed by a Siberian front which strengthened its hold over Eastern Europe on Friday and spread further west. Temperatures plummeted to minus 37 Celsius (minus 35 Fahrenheit) in northern Slovakia and rescue workers dug through snow on mountain roads to rescue ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Greenpeace storms Romanian ministry over gold mine [Jan 31, 2012] BUCHAREST (REUTERS) - Greenpeace activists stormed Romania's Environment Ministry on Tuesday, chaining themselves to radiators in the minister's office in an attempt to stop approval for Europe's biggest open-cast gold mine in a small Carpathian town. Related Stories Toy company owners to be sentenced in drug scheme Italian authorities end search for cruise ship bodies US diplomat says N. Korea ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania sentences ex-PM Nastase to jail for graft [Jan 31, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's top court gave former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase a two year jail sentence for corruption on Monday, a landmark conviction in the graft-prone European Union country that has prosecuted few senior officials. Nastase would be the first former prime minister to be sent to jail since the fall of communism in 1989. He remains free pending an appeal. Prosecutors had ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania sentences ex-PM Nastase to jail for graft [Jan 31, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's top court gave former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase a two year jail sentence for corruption on Monday, a landmark conviction in the graft-prone European Union country that has prosecuted few senior officials. Nastase would be the first former prime minister to be sent to jail since the fall of communism in 1989. He remains free pending an appeal. Prosecutors had ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania sentences ex-PM Nastase to jail for graft [Jan 30, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's top court gave former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase a two year jail sentence for corruption on Monday, a landmark conviction in the graft-prone European Union country that has prosecuted few senior officials. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania sentences ex-PM Nastase to jail for graft [Jan 30, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's top court gave former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase a two year jail sentence for corruption on Monday, a landmark conviction in the graft-prone European Union country that has prosecuted few senior officials. Nastase would be the first former prime minister to be sent to jail since the fall of communism in 1989. He remains free pending an appeal. Prosecutors had ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania sentences ex-PM Nastase to jail for graft [Jan 30, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's top court gave former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase a two year jail sentence for corruption on Monday, a landmark conviction in the graft-prone European Union country that has prosecuted few senior officials. Nastase, who denies the charges and will remain free pending an appeal, would be the first former prime minister to be sent to jail since the fall of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania Snow Blizzards: Army Drafted To Save Trapped Travelers [Jan 26, 2012] By Ioana Patran BUCHAREST, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Romania has drafted in the army to rescue hundreds of travellers stranded by blizzards that dumped up to a metre of snow in 24 hours, derailing a train and forcing authorities to shut down motorways and ports and cancel flights. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania PM sacks foreign minister over protests [Jan 25, 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. [via YahooNews] More >>

Unions rally, tell Romanian PM to quit [Jan 24, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Thousands of Romanians rallied in Bucharest on Tuesday to demand the government resigns over its tough austerity measures, the latest in a wave of protests that have led to some concessions but no change in policy. The hardship caused by austerity measures passed in 2010 to keep a 20-billion-euro International Monetary Fund-led bailout on track has until recently provoked ... [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 >>

Lucescu discharged from Romanian hospital [Jan 23, 2012] BUCHAREST, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Shakhtar Donetsk's Romanian coach Mircea Lucescu was released from a Bucharest hospital on Monday, more than two weeks after he was injured in a car accident there. [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 >>

Romanian anti-government protests enter 10th day [Jan 23, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Protests demanding the Romanian government resign over its austerity measures continued for a tenth successive day in the capital Bucharest Sunday and in some other cities around the country. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian anti-government protests enter 10th day [Jan 22, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Protests demanding the Romanian government resign over its austerity measures continued for a tenth successive day in the capital Bucharest Sunday and in some other cities around the country. The occasionally violent demonstrations were initially sparked by the resignation of a popular deputy health minister but quickly spread to demand President Traian Basescu and Prime ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Snow dampens Romania anti-government protests [Jan 21, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanians protested against austerity measures on Saturday but heavy snow deterred some from pressing a week of occasionally violent demonstrations demanding the government resign. Romania had suffered little of the unrest seen in other austerity-hit European countries like Greece until now. While the protests have been relatively small, they have marked the country's worst ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Snow dampens Romania anti-government protests [Jan 21, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Hundreds of Romanians protested against the government's austerity measures on Saturday, but heavy snow deterred many from pressing a week of occasionally violent demonstrations demanding the government resign. Romania had suffered little of the unrest seen in other austerity-hit European countries like Greece until now and while the protests have been relatively small ... [via YahooNews] More >>