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A Bucharest court on Friday ruled that top Romanian surgeon Mircea Beuran be placed under house arrest for 30 days on suspicion that he took a 10,000 euro bribe. The court rejected a request by anti-corruption prosecutors to arrest him for 30 days. He was detained on Thursday evening. The anti-corruption prosecutors’ agency said...

Romanian lawmakers have voted against a government ordinance that would have postponed a significant increase in child benefits. The Chamber of Deputies struck down the ordinance on Wednesday in a 209-3 vote. Some 98 lawmakers abstained. The Social Democrats passed a bill to double child benefits in November 2019...

They look like patients. They say they’re patients, but there’s nothing wrong with them at all. They are a team of undercover detectives sent by Romania’s Health Minister Sorina Pintea to the country’s hospitals to check out whether medics and nurses are demanding or accepting bribes. The “mysterious patients” as they are...

He went by the name of Iulian. In two months, he called 112, Romania’s emergency number more than 1,500 times, and there was  never an emergency. Fake callers like “Iulian” dialled the emergency line more than 311,000 times in the first three months of 2020, authorities say in what is a growing problem. Sometimes fake callers...

President Klaus Iohannis on Sunday has described the brutal murder of Roma during the Holocaust and says Romania was also responsible for killing Roma during the Nazi occupation.  “Almost half a million children, women and Roma men were killed during the Nazi occupation of Europe,” Iohannis said in a message to mark European...

Romanian police have discovered thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate stored illegally and unsafely at sites and storage units across the country. They seized more than 8,450 tons of the chemical across Romania, about three times the 2,750 tons that caused a massive explosion in the Lebanese capital, Beirut on August 4, that...

Romania holds its first round of presidential elections on Sunday, days after the East European country got its fourth premier in three years amid ongoing political uncertainty. Incumbent Klaus Iohannis, who formerly led the center-right Liberal party, looks set to be re-elected.  He is seen as “a safe air of hands” but does not...

In August 1944, Paris was liberated after the German commander Dietrich von Choltitz surrendered the French capital and farther east, the Soviet offensive was underway in Eastern Europe. But on Wednesday, August 2, 1944 something altogether more brutal and sinister took place in Eastern Europe. The remaining Roma of the so-called “Zigeunerlager”...

Doctors and medical staff at Romanian public hospitals who are caught receiving bribes may lose their jobs, under a new proposal from the health ministry. Health Minister Victor Costache said the ministry was considering putting a clause in contracts that would ban kickbacks which have been rife in the Romanian healthcare system for decades. Medical staff caught taking bribes...

Romanian police are investigating allegations of electoral fraud in Bucharest’s first district after a man was filmed leaving the electoral offices with almost 500 voting papers. Final votes gave Clotilde Armand, a French-Romanian politician of the centrist Save Romania Union-Plus 40.95% of the vote while the incumbent, Daniel Tudorache of the Social Democratic...