Romania News

Eight British schoolchildren have been taken to hospital in Romania with swine flu.

BUCHAREST, Romania -- Prosecutor General Laura Codruta Kovesi asked President Traian Basescu on Monday to authorise a criminal investigation into former Privatisation Minister Ovidiu Musetescu, media reported.

Bucharest - Romania's health ministry confirmed two new cases of swine flu on Wednesday in two British students visiting the country, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 35.

The last remaining bomb-grade uranium has been shipped out of Romania as part of a U.S.-Russian nuclear nonproliferation program, the Energy Department reported Tuesday.

Date: 2009-06-29 Witness to major changes in this country, H.E. Mario Cospito, the Italian Ambassador to Bucharest, said his own country had experienced similar transformations during the '50s and the 60s.

Albaniaa s local elections commissions are still in the process of counting the votes from Sundaya s parliamentary elections, considered a maturity test for the country and a boost for Albaniaa s EU aspirations.

BUCHAREST, Romania - Former Romanian soccer star Gheorghe 'Gica' Popescu insists he was not an informant for the country's secret police in the 1980s during the regime of the late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

Two Bulgarian truck drivers have been arrested with 23 000 doses of anabolic substances in northwest Romania.

Bucharest Anti-racism protest in Belfast Following a series of attacks in Belfast, Northern Ireland, more than 100 Romanian Roma have decided to return home, fearing for their safety.

A Romanian teenager electrocuted herself while Twittering in her bath after she dropped her laptop computer in the water.

Elena Bianca Constantin smiles after she was crowned Miss Universe Romania in Bucharest June 27, 2009.

The National Integrity Agency is about to begin investigating eight ministers over inconsistencies in their asset statements, ANI President Alexandru Macovei announced on Thursday .

Romania's president says his country respects Moldova's territorial integrity. Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin had accused Romania of trying to overthrow his government during violent protests in April.

Parliament's lower house on Tuesday rejected a motion to launch a criminal investigation against former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase on corruption charges, media reported.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met Mircea Geoana, the president of Romania's senate here Wednesday.

BUCHAREST, Romania -- The National Anticorruption Directorate will launch an investigation against Youth Minister Monica Iacob Ridzi, for suspected embezzlement and misappropriation of state funds, media reported on Monday .

<p.Romania's main opposition party submitted a parliamentary request to launch an investigation on the Youth and Sports Minister, Monica Ridzi, accusing her of misappropriating funds.

The rising flow of workers moving in and out of Romania has delivered a significant blow to parts of the population in the Eastern European country, an independent United Nations human rights expert has warned.

A network of volunteers from Romania has managed to plant more than 100,000 trees and collect 70 tonnes of trash in just one year, filling in gaps in the working of state institutions, and showing that there is potential for civic engagement among Romanian youth.

The Romanian families, including a five-day-old baby girl, cowered inside as the mob shouted and swore that the foreign gipsy ‘scum’ should pack up and go — or face the consequences. p>