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Ana Ciceală, who is running for mayor of Bucharest for the leftist, pro-European SENS party says she won’t drop out of the race for the Bucharest City Hall on Dec. 7, because  "voters aren’t sacks of potatoes that politicians keep in their cellars and move them from one place to another. That's not how it works." It’s not an original...

A man from New Zealand has been charged for theft after stealing a diamond-studded Fabergé egg locket.  More precisely, he is claims to have swallowed it.  Thus, it has not been recovered.  The Fabergé egg locket is valued at NZ$33,585, or approximately £14,600. The Octopussy egg, as it is named, was inspired by the 1983 James Bond film of the same name, which,...

Expect fellow authoritarian Trump to now pressure Israel’s president to help Netanyahu escape justice, backed by threats against the Jewish state It’s hard to imagine a more staggering act of hypocrisy than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request for a pardon, given his own public and legal arguments over the past several years. This is the same man who stood...

The European Union's former foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, has been detained by Belgian police as part of an anti-fraud investigation. Mogherini, 52, the former High Representative of the European Union, has been detained during police raids as part of an anti-fraud investigation that has sent shockwaves across Brussels. Mogherini was among three suspects taken for questioning on Tuesday morning after...

The "Elie Wiesel" Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania on Tuesday called on the government and prosecutors to swiftly investigate a pro-fascist rally held last weekend north of Bucharest. Several sympathizers commemorated fascist interwar leader  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu in the village of Tâncăbeşti on Sunday, the place where he and others were assassinated 87 years ago. His Legionnaire...

With the Winter holidays approaching, chocolate will be part of the gifts that people will find in their boots or under the tree this month. But this year, it will be more expensive for St. Nicholas and Santa to bring it. While cocoa prices have dropped sharply in 2025, on global markets, after several years of record highs, Romanian consumers...

The current Ukraine diplomacy is incoherent and unlikely to succeed, sadly. The only plausible alternative to dangerous appeasement is to dial up the pressure on Putin. Peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, facilitated by a US administration that is openly seeking to profit from the endgame somehow, grind on incoherently amid persistent battlefield violence and growing unease among Ukraine’s European...

George Smyth, 18, went missing in mountains in Romania on 23 November Rescue teams in Romania have been forced to call off the search for a British teenager who is believed to be missing in the mountains of Romania, Yahoo News reported. George Smyth, 18, from Shropshire, western England, was last seen on 23 November. He made an emergency call to...

Two scenarios in ‘all their beauty’ hover over the Capital: in the best one, Bucharest would have a mayor from the Social Democratic Party; and in the particularly bad one, Bucharest will be led by a protegee of pro-Russian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu. At least, this seems to be the trend that polls have begun to indicate, and the latest...

U.S. President Donald Trump conveyed a special message to Romania on the occasion of its National Day, praising the “strong and growing” partnership between Romania and the United States. The message was sent in a formal letter addressed to Romanian President Nicușor Dan as Romania marked 107 years since the 1918 Great Union of Romania’s regions.  In his message, President...