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Romania’s foreign minister says NATO hasn’t had to activate the anti-missile defense system in southern Romania during the current Middle East crisis, and asserted that the system was defending European allied territory “perfectly.” Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu spoke Wednesday after a joint parliamentary foreign policy and defense committee meeting with Defense Minister Nicolae Ciuca, where they...

Romania’s former finance minister has challenged his successor Florin Citu to a public debate after he claimed that the outgoing Social Democrats handled the country’s finances like the notorious gangster Al Capone. Florin Citu, of the ruling Liberal Party, claimed Thursday that the Social Democrats had hidden Romania’s economic situation since they came to power in 2017 and kept two...

Romania’s Health Minister Nelu Tataru says September will be a challenging month for new coronavirus cases, but numbers should start to decline by mid-October. “A hard month follows,” Tataru said referring to the reopening of schools on September 14 followed by nationwide local elections on September 27. However, if rules are...

Romania reported 823 cases of new coronavirus on Monday, the fourth day in a row that the number of daily infections have fallen. However, just 8,045 tests were carried out, meaning 10.23% of the people tested were confirmed to have the virus, which is double the usual percentage of most days last week. Testing...

The 2019 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change shows that climate change is already damaging the health of the world’s children and is set to shape the well-being of an entire generation unless the world meets Paris Agreement targets to limit warming to well below 2˚C. Romania is among the European countries where...

Romania has had more Covid-19 deaths than any other country in the European Union in the past month for its population size, double the rate of its neighbor Bulgaria. Romania’s representative at the World Health Organization, Alexandru Rafila, says a combination of factors have led to the high death rate, including the state of health of people...

It should be deep winter, but in some parts of Romania fruit trees are in bud and the first leaves of wheat have already emerged. It’s not even the end of January, and Romanian farmers are warning that wheat, fruit trees, barley and other crops are growing too quickly and could be decimated...

It sounds like something out of a James Bond film: an undercover squad in Moscow trying to take down a continent. But according to the New York Times, it’s frightening reality recently discovered by a handful of Western intelligence officials. The Times reports that an elite Russian military intelligence unit has been engaged for at least a decade...

For the third consecutive day, Romania reported fewer than 200 cases in the past day, as cases edged toward 19,000. The Strategic Communication Group said Friday that 191 people had tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours, while the total virus count rose to 18,982. The death toll...

Romania’s transport ministry says the chief executive officer of the country’s struggling national air carrier, Tarom, has resigned. George Barbu, CEO since October 2019, handed in his resignation on Tuesday during a meeting of the Administration Council. The board named Mihaita Ursu as acting CEO for four months. Ursu is a...