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A moderate 5.2 earthquake rumbled parts of Romania, Ukraine and parts of Bulgaria early Friday, Romania’s National Institute for Earth Physics said. There were no reports of injuries or damage. The earthquake occurred at 3.26 am (0136 GMT) and had its epicenter in the county of Vrancea in eastern Romania at a...

It’s Tuesday morning, and hundreds of cars are parked outside a hypermarket in Bucharest. At the entrance, there’s a sign inviting shoppers to buy “noble wines,” but fine liquor is the last thing on people’s minds. News of an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has sparked a surge in bulk buying in the last...

An investigation into a drugs’ smuggling and extortion ring in western Romania has turned up an unusual detail about the way mobsters operate and carve up territory between them. The probe conducted by the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism revealed Romanian mobsters organized a “congress” in September where they used the Italian Mafia...

Prime Minister Ludovic Orban on Friday said Romanians should strive to diminish the socio-economic divide between Eastern and Western Europe as people celebrated a landmark in Romanian  history. Orban said the holiday to mark ‘Little Union Day’ was an occasion to “reflect what we want as a people, leaving aside differing opinions and political...

Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said Thursday his minority Liberal government would seek parliamentary support to change the system of voting in local elections, reverting to two rounds of voting which would give mayors greater legitimacy.  Orban said he would seek parliamentary support for his proposal. If parliament rejects two successive proposals from the prime minister within...

She was unpopular with the former Social Democrat-led government and their allies, but former chief anti-corruption prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi is appreciated in Europe for her efforts to tackle graft at the highest levels of the Romanian state. Kovesi, who was recently appointed Chief EU Public Prosecutor, has been awarded the “Woman in...

Romanian authorities have evacuated residents from 200 apartments in building in the southwest city of Timisoara after three people died and six were hospitalized after the building was treated with pesticide. A 10-day-old infant, a three-year-old child and his 29-year-old mother have died, authorities quoted by news.ro reported Monday. Reports say...

Rokmania's Environment Minister Costel Alexe expressed outrage about the case of an injured bear that was left overnight at the side of the road after it was hit by a car. The story of the bear that was left in agony as officials dithered about what do dominated the news over the weekend and evoked furious...

Romania’s top court has given the green light to a law that bans aggressive dogs in public without a lead and a muzzle. The Constitutional Court debated the constitutionality of the law on Tuesday and approved the legislation by a majority. The law defines aggressive as being “any...

More than 50 courts in Romania have voted to disband a special section tasked with investigating magistrates established by the former Social Democrat-led government that sparked widespread criticism about assaults on the independence of the justice system. The investigative agency, the Section for the Investigation of Criminal Offenses in the judiciary, was created...