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The coronavirus is back in Romania, and health authorities are registered 11,000 cases in the last week compared to about 500 a week two months ago. The increase in new cases of COVID-19 in Romania started again in mid-July and has risen continuously since August. The health ministry shows that from September 11 to 17, more than 11,200 people infected with...

Austrian chancellor Karl Nehammer will maintain a veto against allowing Romania and Bulgaria into the Schengen zone. Bucharest says it will sue at the CJEU (Court of Justice of the European Union). In a recent interview, the Austrian chancellor justified his country's ongoing veto citing concerns over the influx of illegal immigrants. Bucharest considers this an unfounded and fabricated argument, as...

AI-generated naked images of young girls have been circulating on social media without their knowledge in their small town of Almendralejo in southern Spain. The pictures were created using photos of the targeted girls fully clothed, many of them taken from their own social media accounts, reports the BBC. These were then processed by an application that generates an imagined...

On June 19 2023, the Treaty of the High Seas was adopted by consensus and standing ovation during the United Nations meeting in New York. This Treaty is key to protect the ocean, promote equity and fairness, tackle environmental degradation, fight climate change, and prevent biodiversity loss in the high seas. Now, Romania's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luminita Odobescu, has...

Romania's Parliament will consider a draft law to recognize same-sex marriages that are carried out in another European Union country. But NGOs say the legislation  fails to provide equals rights to Romanian LGBT people. The draft legislation – which comes five years after a ruling against the Romanian state by the Court of Justice of the European Union, CJEU, and...

New NGO dedicated to educating media about Armenia with timely and accurate information Calls on global media to reject false narratives from Baku. The Armenia Project, a Yerevan-based educational non-profit focused on what it says is accurate information about Armenia and the region, is calling on the world community to treat with urgency Azerbaijan's aggression on Nagorno-Karabakh. It urges...

The third edition of the Bread Fair will be between September 22 - 24. It will be held at the National Museum of the Dimitrie Gusti Village, where Bucharest residents are expected to taste over 100 certified traditional local Romanian agri-food products. The event will mark the Day of the Romanian Village, which is celebrated since 2020 on the last Sunday...

Trading and investing platform eToro on Thursday announced that its application for registration under the CySEC CASP (Crypto Asset Service Provider) Register has been approved. The registration will enable eToro to offer regulated crypto services to all EU countries on a cross-border basis from one single entity, eToro (Europe) Digital Assets Ltd, once the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA)...

Four people were killed following a gas explosion at a highway construction site in Romania Thursday, emergency authorities said. The blast happened around 1 a.m. near the eastern town of Calimanesti,  the emergency office said in a statement. It was caused by "cracking of a gas transport pipe and the appearance of mechanical sparks" during construction work, spokesman Florin Olaru said. Media...

UEFA has sanctioned the Romanian soccer federation (FRF) over pro-Serbia chants by supporters during a Euro 2024 qualifier against Kosovo, European soccer's governing body said on Wednesday. The Sept. 12 match in Bucharest was suspended for almost an hour after some home fans chanted, "Serbia Serbia" and held up a banner saying 'Kosovo is Serbia'. Romania won 2-0. Kosovo declared independence...