Three Romanians suspected of tunneling into London jewelers and stealing 300,000 pounds of diamonds
Two Romanians have been arrested and extradited to Britain
in connection with a diamond heist where thieves tunnelled into an upmarket
London jewellers and stole 300,000 pounds of gems and valuables in an audacious
heist, a Romanian newspaper reported.
Marian Sorin Munteanu, 43, and Cristin Florin Neagu, 46, were extradited following
a ruling by the Court of Appeal...
Romania reports new cases of COVID-19, introduces new measures at borders to contain the spread of the killer virus
Romanian authorities have reported two new
cases of coronavirus, bringing the total to 31, as authorities introduced new
measures at the borders to control the spread of the killer virus.
Authorities
added northern France and the Spanish capital, Madrid as high-risk areas of coronavirus
infection.
Health ministry official Nelu Tartaru said late Tuesday that...
Cross marks the spot. Is this where Prince Vlad Dracul was killed?
A field just outside a village about 40 kilometers south of the town of Targoviste may be the place where Romanian medieval prince Vlad Dracul was killed almost 600 years ago, a historian and others believe.
Details about when Vlad Dracul was born and where he died remain sketchy. Historians say he was...
Romanian bakery says sorry to town for “offending” residents following protests over 2 Sri Lankan bakers
A Romanian company that hired 2 Sri Lankan bakers sparking protests in a small town in central Romania has apologized to the community and says the bakery will find other jobs for the men.
In an open letter to the community, the bakery “apologized if we have offended anyone, but we did hire foreign...
Suceava, the epicenter of Romania’s coronavirus outbreak. 170 medics and patients infected with the deadly disease in the small northern region
They call it Romania’s Lombardy.
Besides being in the far north of the country just like Lombardy, Suceava county shares one more thing with the Italian region thousands of kilometers away: the unfortunate fame of being the flash point for the coronavirus pandemic in their countries.
Despite having...
The Complicated Financial Affairs of Rovana Plumb (or how politicians are inspired by the story of Scrat, the Ice Age squirrel)
Rovana Plumb has had a successful political career by any standards. Elected to Romania’s Parliament in 2004, she became a member of the European Parliament in 2009 for the Social Democracy Party. She moved back to Bucharest after she was appointed environment minister and later became the labour minister. She was elected president of Social Democrats’ National...
Reactor at Hungarian nuclear plant shuts down
One of the four reactors at Hungary’s Paks nuclear power plant shut down when an automatic defense mechanism kicked in, the plant said in a statement quoted by Reuters.
The incident occurred Thursday morning and experts are investigating. There were no safety implications, it said.
The plant, the only one...
Love in the time of Corona. Romanian man rides horse to hospital after wife gives birth during lockdown
What do you do when your wife’s had a baby, but there’s a lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic and no public transport running?
A 22-year-old Romanian man learned on Thursday that his wife had given birth at a hospital in the northeastern city of Iasi.
Eager to see his...
After cold snap, ‘tropical temperatures’ forecast for Eastern Europe
Put the boots and winter coats back in the wardrobe.
A wave of
polar air that sent temperatures plummeting to below freezing in some parts of
Eastern Europe in recent days has passed, and warmer weather is back on its way
this weekend.
The extreme fluctuations will see temperatures of more than 10 degrees...
Romania has 900 cases of coronavirus, and the killer bug has caused 13 deaths
The number of coronavirus cases jumped to 906 on Wednesday in Romania, while thirteen people have died from the COVID-19 in the country.
The Strategic Communication Group announced 144 new cases in the past 24 hours. Patients were aged 3 to 79. Eighty-six people have recovered since the outbreak began several weeks ago.
