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Romania nightclub blasts injure 17 [Mar 19, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Two explosions injured 17 people at a nightclub in the northern Romanian town of Sighetu Marmatiei, emergency services said Sunday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania nightclub blasts injure 17 [Mar 19, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Two explosions injured 17 people at a nightclub in the northern Romanian town of Sighetu Marmatiei, emergency services said Sunday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania nightclub blasts injure 17 [Feb 21, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Two explosions injured 17 people at a nightclub in the northern Romanian town of Sighetu Marmatiei, emergency services said Sunday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania nightclub blasts injure 17 [Feb 19, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Two explosions injured 17 people at a nightclub in the northern Romanian town of Sighetu Marmatiei, emergency services said Sunday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania nightclub blasts injure 17 [Feb 19, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Two explosions injured 17 people at a nightclub in the northern Romanian town of Sighetu Marmatiei, emergency services said Sunday. The first explosion ripped through the club in the early hours of Sunday, injuring seven. A second blast at the building several hours later injured another ten people, said Cornel Babut, spokesman for the local Maramures emergency office ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian mayor ends hunger strike over cuts [Nov 26, 2011] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian mayor Florin Cazacu Saturday ended a six-day hunger strike over cuts in heating subsidies after the government handed his town extra funds for fuel oil. He said thousands of residents in Brad have shivered at home after the government scrapped a centralized heating subsidy which, Cazacu said, left the central Romanian town with a 3 million lei ($912,500) shortfall ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Gold mine plans divide one Transylvanian town [Aug 22, 2011] This is fairy tale land and there's even a pot of gold buried beneath it. But not everyone's happy. With the precious metal at an all-time high, a Canadian company is eager to start blasting out mountains and demolishing parts of the ancient Romanian town of Rosia Montana to build an open-cast mine where 300 tons of gold and 1,600 tons of silver are buried. [via YahooNews] More >>

Gold mine plans divide 1 Transylvanian town [Aug 21, 2011] ALISON MUTLER Associated Press ROSIA MONTANA, Romania This is fairy tale land and there's even a pot of gold buried beneath it. But not everyone's happy. With the precious metal at an all-time high, a Canadian company is eager to start blasting out mountains and demolishing parts of the ancient Romanian town of Rosia Montana to build an open-cast mine where 300 tons of gold and 1,600 tons of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Gold mine plans divide 1 Transylvanian town [Aug 21, 2011] This is fairy tale land and there's even a pot of gold buried beneath it. But not everyone's happy. With the precious metal at an all-time high, a Canadian company is eager to start blasting out mountains and demolishing parts of the ancient Romanian town of Rosia Montana to build an open-cast mine where 300 tons of gold and 1,600 tons of silver are buried. [via YahooNews] More >>

Gold mine plans divide one Transylvanian town [Aug 21, 2011] ALISON MUTLER Associated Press ROSIA MONTANA, Romania This is fairy tale land and there's even a pot of gold buried beneath it. But not everyone's happy. With the precious metal at an all-time high, a Canadian company is eager to start blasting out mountains and demolishing parts of the ancient Romanian town of Rosia Montana to build an open-cast mine where 300 tons of gold and 1,600 tons of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Gold mine plans divide one Transylvanian town [Aug 21, 2011] ALISON MUTLER Associated Press ROSIA MONTANA, Romania This is fairy tale land and there's even a pot of gold buried beneath it. But not everyone's happy. With the precious metal at an all-time high, a Canadian company is eager to start blasting out mountains and demolishing parts of the ancient Romanian town of Rosia Montana to build an open-cast mine where 300 tons of gold and 1,600 tons of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian Paper Exposes Paradoxes of Bulgarian Tourism [Apr 04, 2011] Bulgarian tourism is filled with paradoxes ? from numerous potholes to multitouch restaurant tables ? according to a report of the Romania Libera newspaper. In an article entitled "The Paradoxes of Bulgarian Tourism: from Roads with Potholes to Restaurants with Multitouch Tables", the Romania Libera outlines a detailed report of traveling from the Romanian town of Giurgiu on the Danube to ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Lole Parade in Romania [Feb 14, 2011] Masked characters and a child, riding a wooden horse, take part in the Lole Parade, a traditional ethnic German event from the 17th century, in the Romanian town of Sibiu, about 290 km northwest of Bucharest, Feb 13, 2011. The carnival is organized by Sibiu and Agnita town halls and several NGOs in an attempt to revitalize local traditions. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian mayor prefers gold to UNESCO World Heritage [Aug 27, 2010] A museum guide showing an old vinch used in an old Romanian mine in the western Romanian town of Rosia Montana. Photo courtesy: AFP. A Greco-Catholic church in the western Romanian town of Rosia Montana. Photo courtesy: AFP. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian military aircraft crash kills 10 [Jul 09, 2010] BUCHAREST, Jul 5 (Reuters) - Ten people died today when a military aircraft carrying 13 people crashed soon after taking off from an airport in the southeast Romanian town of Tuzla, the defence ministry said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian military aircraft crash kills 10 [Jul 07, 2010] BUCHAREST, Jul 5 (Reuters) - Ten people died today when a military aircraft carrying 13 people crashed soon after taking off from an airport in the southeast Romanian town of Tuzla, the defence ministry said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian military aircraft crash kills 10 [Jul 05, 2010] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Ten people died Monday when a military aircraft carrying 13 people crashed soon after taking off from an airport in the southeast Romanian town of Tuzla, the defense ministry said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian military aircraft crash kills 10 [Jul 05, 2010] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Ten people died Monday when a military aircraft carrying 13 people crashed soon after taking off from an airport in the southeast Romanian town of Tuzla, the defence ministry said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Police in Romania arrest leaders of child-trafficking operation in UK [Apr 08, 2010] The leaders of a child-trafficking operation that put hundreds of beggars on the streets of Britain were targeted in a series of raids today in a remote Romanian town where opulent mansions have sprung up since the country joined the European Union. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian street sign warns drivers of 'drunk pedestrians' (Daily Telegraph) [Mar 09, 2010] The 10 signs were erected in the Romanian town of Pecica after road safety chiefs became worried about dangerous levels of accidents. [via YahooNews] More >>