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Bucharest’s city hall will ban heavily polluting cars from the center of the capital and introduce a tax on other cars in bid to reduce pollution and heavy traffic in the Romanian capital. The worst offenders, known as Euro 1 and Euro 2 cars, will not be allowed downtown regardless where they are registered starting from 2022,...

Romanian authorities say they have confirmed 491 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, one of the highest since the outbreak began, taking to the total of confirmed cases to 7,707 cases. The Strategic Communication Group said Thursday that 387 people had died from the virus since the outbreak began.

Romania's president says that a two-month state of alert to fight the new coronavirus outbreak must be extended by another 30 days to fight a surge in the number of infections. President Klaus Iohannis imposed a strict lockdown across the East European country in mid-March to limit the spread of the virus and replaced the "state...

One of Bucharest’s major hospitals is accused of covering up an operation that went wrong after surgeons allegedly obstructed a ministry inquiry into the case of a patient who suffered third degree burns during surgery. A 66-year-old patient was engulfed in a fireball after a surgeons at the Floreasca Emergency Hospital activated an electrosurgical instrument_ a sort...

Former Romanian intelligence officer Daniel Dragomir has been charged with setting up an organized crime ring using Israeli operatives to compromise Romania’s president, the former anti-corruption chief prosecutor, and the head of the intelligence agency. According to an indictment from the organized crime unit, Dragomir, who is a fugitive, contacted private Israeli intelligence agency...

The Economist has published a very important text, presented below, which I take the liberty to recommend you should read and bear in mind. It explains where the strong, deep current that drives the EU to a closer proximity to Russia comes from. It is already felt in Romania, as I wrote when I introduced the text about the business of Kellner,...

Deadly attacks by brown bears have killed 11 cows in the past two months, farmers in one Transylvanian region say. Local official Szabolcs Mezei said bear attacks near the town of Gheorgheni in Harghita county have been higher than last year and farmers are looking for damages for the loss of their livestock in the...

In Romania one in ten children goes to bed hungry and one-fifth say they are rarely or never happy, according to a study of life for children in rural areas. The Welfare of Children in Rural Areas report carried out by humanitarian aid group World Vision found that one in 14 children say their...

Romanian authorities confirmed 641 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday after a record number of tests were carried out. The Strategic Communication Group said that 18,440 tests were conducted nationwide in the past 24 hours. Although the new infections were the second highest figure for a single day,some 3.48% of people tested...

Romania's highest court has confirmed that former Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta plagiarized much of his doctoral dissertation eight years after allegations first surfaced. The High Court of Cassation and Justice on found Ponta guilty of copying parts of his dissertation from other sources without naming them. Allegations emerged in 2012 when he...