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In today’s episode of Critical Conditions, Claire is checking in with me in my safe room, in between frequent missile alerts. I speak to her from the reinforced concrete room built into the apartment I’m staying in while the damn phone keeps buzzing with warnings (You get a few minutes. Close the steel door. Wait. Hear huge booms overhead.) The last...

Freelance Journalist Victor Ilie was placed under Surveillance by Anti-Corruption Authority Death Threats Against PressOne Journalists Răzvan Filip and Renata MogîldeaB1TV Camera Operator Attacked, Digi24 Reporter Threatened and Harassed by Protesters Here you will find the alerts on the Romania since 2015: https://fom.coe.int/en/pays/detail/11709570 Press freedom continued to be under sustained pressure in Europe in 2025, driven by legal threats, physical...

This is a personal tribute to Roxana Dascalu who was a major force in Reuters’ first bureau in Bucharest during the Romanian Revolution and civic activist and "fighter to the end". Roxana died on February 25 aged 69 after a long illness in the French mountain town of Chalabre which had been her home for many years. Roxana's funeral...

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars marks 10 years of Black Badge following its debut in 2016 Black Badge set a bold template for modern super-luxury that echoes across the sector 1928 20 H.P. with black grille and Spirit of Ecstasy archived as early aesthetic precedent for Black Badge The spirit and attitude of Black Badge trace back to John Lennon’s...

A campaign is underway for Romanian to become a GCSE option in British schools. With an estimated 1.5 million Romanians living in UK, campaigners argue census data supports their request to allow teenage students to study the language as one of their exam options, the BBC reported Monday. In the 2021 census, Londoners were asked what their "main" language was. After...

Citi aims to make bitcoin ‘bankable’ while Barclays explores blockchain platform.  Bitcoin ended February down 15%, marking five consecutive months of losses and a decline of 48% since its all-time high of $126,500 in October 2025. 2026 is also the first time January and February have finished as back-to-back down months in bitcoin’s history, Simon Peters, cryptoasset market analyst at eToro. March...

The wide range of possibilities include Trump declaring there's been enough of a regime change already and resuming talks – unless the protests resume The opening phase of the joint US–Israeli campaign against Iran’s leadership has been, by any military measure, spectacular. In a matter of hours, the upper spine of the Islamic Republic was shattered. The Supreme Leader is...

The military, intelligence and technological power of the US shone again, with a new war against Iran: the bombings were overwhelming, the intelligence was high-class, and the decapitation of the tyrannical regime in Tehran was spectacular in terms of precision, speed and scale. Likewise, the ability of security analysts in the US  to assess the degree of risk of the...

Romana’s defense ministry said Sunday that US-Israeli strikes on Iran and Iranian strikes in the Middle East do not pose a security threat to Romania. The ministry said Sunday that while there was “no military threat to the national territory, amid developments in Iran’s security situation in Iran… measures have been ordered to increase vigilance and prepare the systems that...

A new American-Israeli war with Iran caps a month that saw Supreme Court pushback on tariffs, US-EU tensions, upheaval over social media, and another hit for mainstream journalism February is in the books, and on the final day of the month, the US and Israel attacked Iran, and as of this writing it appears that they managed to kill Supreme...