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The MAN Lion’s City electric bus is has moved into the city of Oradea in western Romania. It is the first electric bus in the city and a step in the journey from polluting vehicles to zero-emissions transport. Public transport fleet It’s been included in the public transport fleet to see how viable it is in real-time traffic. “The future of urban mobility...

Teen tennis star Emma Raducanu, the favorite to win the prestigious  2021 BBC Sports Personality of the Year crown, is isolating after testing positive for Covid-19. The 19-year-old is odds on after she won hearts in Britain with a stunning withdrawal at Wimbledon before seizing the US Open title without dropping a set. The teen, who has a Romanian father and...

Forest rangers have found the body of a man who was killed by a bear in a hut in a forest in Transylvania. The rangers were called over the weekend to the aid of a man who had been attacked by a bear in Harghita county in central Romania. “Rangers were asked to rescue someone who had bee attacked by a...

Premierul Nicolae Ciucă nu-l va demite pe ministrul Cercetării Florin Roman în pofida suspiciunilor de plagiat din lucrarea sa de disertaţie, susţin surse guvernamentale pentru News.ro. “Imediat după ce în presă au apărut informaţii legate de lucrarea de disertaţie a ministrului Cercetării, premierul Nicolae Ciucă i-a cerut lui Florin Roman să vină cu explicaţii publice. Mai departe, avem instituţii specializate...

A Romanian environmental activist has hailed a court ruling against a timber company that contested sanctions for illegal logging. Wood theft Gabriel Paun or Agent Green as he is known said the widespread “ «offline» theft of wood which bypasses  the SUMAL 2.0 system was defeated today in court.” He called it: “a historic and strategic victory.” The electronic wood tracking system SUMAL...

Romania will buy 32 F-16 second-hand aircraft from Norway to upgrade its air force, the defense minister said Friday. The jets are all more than 40 years old. Unlike the current Romanian F-16s, the Norwegian models can launch intelligent bombs and long-range air-to-air missiles. Defense Minister Vasile Dincu sent a letter to Parliament on Friday for lawmakers to formally sign off on...

Three minor earthquakes rattled Romania on Friday in the space of a few hours. There were no reports of injuries or damage. The first temblor had a magnitude of 2 and occurred at 11:16 in the western county of Bihor near the Hungarian border. The second quake struck shortly afterwards and had a magnitude of 2.6. It had its epicenter in...

Tens of thousands of Romanian children have no parents at home because they are working abroad, a situation an official called "horrifying" on Friday. Romania's ombudsman Renate Weber said it was "a serious situation," referring to a recent study on children who have effectively been abandoned by their parents. Millions of Romanians left the country after communism collapsed to find better-paid...

Romania’s economy will rebound by 7% this year according to estimates but growth is expected to slow next year before picking up in 2023, according to presidential adviser Cosmin Marinescu. “Growth is a post-lockdown recovery effect, that is, the peak and not the basis of recovery,” the economic adviser to President Klaus Iohannis wrote on his blog. “All estimates indicate a...

Romanians’ preference for driving fancy big second-hand cars to show off is adding to pollution and causing the government headaches. Environment Minister Barna Tanczos says he is fighting a losing battle against the number of second-hand cars that outnumber new cars. He singled out  people who “drive around in highly polluting vehicles with powerful engines because they don’t want to drive...