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Iasi airport will open a new 90-million euro terminal next year which will make it the second-biggest airport in Romania. Traffic has increased to the airport in Romania’s less developed northeast since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. There has been a major increase in passengers from neighboring Moldova and Ukraine flying from the airport. The new T4 terminal which will open...

Tottenham has completed the signing of Romanian center back Radu Dragusin from Italian club Genoa. The 21-year-old Romania international signed a contract on Thursday through the 2029-30 season. "I wanted to join Sours the moment I heard they were interested. I thought about it and analyzed every aspect and I think this is the best step for my career," he said....

Icelandic Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir on Thursday was hailed as a ‘champion of democracy’ as she received the Gender Equality Award from the prestigious Babes-Bolyai University in the Transylvanian city of Cluj. Ms. Jakobsdottir has been an elected member of Parliament—or Althingi (the world’s oldest Parliament)—since 2007 and has chaired the Women World Leaders since 2020. She is one of...

Police officer Tudor Stanica one of the communist officials who ordered Romanian dissident Gheorghe Ursu be tortured to death has died at the age of 84. He died on Dec. 30, Romanian media reported. He had been ill for several years. Stanica and his subordinate Mihai Creanga were both convicted in 2003 on charges that they had ordered Ursu’s cellmate to...

Romanian journalist Catalin Tolontan whose investigative reporting has won him plaudits abroad has been fired as editor from daily Libertatea, two months after he clashed with the owners over allegations of editorial interference. Ringier announced Wednesday it was parting ways with Tolontan, an acclaimed investigative and sports journalist who is editorial coordinator of the newspaper Libertatea, Paginademedia.ro reported. His dismissal...

An British tourist was mauled by a bear in Romania after she lowered her car window to take a photo of it. The 72-year-old Scottish woman was driving on the Transfăgărășan mountain road in Argeş County, on Monday when she came across two bears. As she stopped the car to snap a photo with the the creature, one of the bears...

More than a simple sausage, Sibiu salami is not just Romania's best-known salami, but part of the country's gastronomic heritage. Delicacy During the communist era, when food shortages were common because food was massively exported, the dry aged pork sausage was considered a delicacy, available only to the communist and Securitate elite most of the time. But the history of this luxury...

A young woman, known to be a German tattoo artist, whose apparently lifeless and semi-naked body was paraded in the back of a Hamas pick-up truck as militants sat on top of her and jeered following their violent incursion was last night identified as a German tattoo artist. Shani Louk was at a music festival for peace when she was...

Romania's Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu has turned down a meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen during the UN General Assembly in New York, after Israel legitimized a far-right party in Romania. Odobescu cited "a busy agenda" but Romanian government sources told Universul.net said the move was part of new government policy after a controversial meeting between the Israeli ambassador...

Russia allegedly attacked the strategic Ukrainian port of Reni, a port on the Danube, close to the Romanian border which Ukraine is using to export grain after Moscow pulled out of a deal guaranteeing safe passage for exports across the Black Sea. Images on social media on Monday taken from Romania showed a series of explosions at the port of...