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Three Romanian troops of the National Support Element (NSE) stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, sustained injuries on Friday following a rocket attack, the National Defence Ministry announced.Sgt Mj Cristian Mostoc and Sergeants Marian Muscaloiu and Mar ...

Over 56,000 Administration and Interior Ministry (MAI) staff will watch over the presidential elections, due on Sunday, caretaker Minister Vasile Blaga told a news conference on Friday.According to him, out of the 56,712 MAI staff to be involved in the ...

The 55 polling stations organized on Italian territory have opened at 7.00 a.m. local time (8.00 a.m. Romania's time), a number of 167,000 Romanians being expected to cast their vote, according to the number of ballot papers sent by Bucharest author ...

Nearly 13,740 eligible to vote Romanians have cast a vote in the polling stations opened abroad by Sunday at noon, the Foreign Ministry said in a release to Agerpres.The highest turnout was in the neighbouring Republic of Moldova, namely in the four pol ...

Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu is one of the ten ambassadors of the European film selected by the European Film Academy (EFA), an institution founded in 1988 with the aim to promote the European film culture. The institution awards the prestigious P ...

The Bucharest metro is celebrating today the 30th anniversary of its first line - Semanatoarea - Timpuri Noi.The first metro stops were inaugurated on November 16, 1979. As a result of the demographic development of the city and the hardships faced by t ...

As many as 66 percent of Romanian believe elections get rigged and 19 percent believe the contrary, reveal the findings of a poll conducted November 7-11 by the Company for Sociological Research and Branding (CCSB) commissioned by the Pro Democarcy Asso ...

Dacia, a brand of the Renault group, is to contest France's celebrated Trophée Andros ice-racing series and the former Formula 1 pilot Alain Prost will drive a competition version of Dacia Duster in the series set to take place this winter, i ...

The metro workers' trade unions today went on a second day of an indefinite strike, with underground mass transit to halt between 04:00-16:00 hrs., local.The trade unions decided to continue their industrial action as pay negotiations on Tuesday wit ...

The United States of America have no preferred candidate in the race for Romania's Presidency, U.S. Ambassador in Bucharest Mark Gitenstein said on Wednesday, in response to recent press allegations.The U.S. Government does not support any particula ...

The Romanian public television TVR, Realitatea TV and Antena 3 television channels have reached an agreement on Wednesday on holding a range of public debates with all the candidates in Sunday's presidential elections, the TVR announced in a release ...

 The Bucharest Court ruled on Wednesday that the subway workers' protest is not legal.The Court sentence is executory and the subway employees are to resume activity.The decision can be appealed against within ten days.After learning of the cou ...

Romania will be the first European Union member state to showcase domestic products at the headquarters of the European Parliament, particularly all its cheese types, and especially the famous Sibiu cheese, says Romanian MEP Daciana Sarbu of the Sociali ...

Romania had the highest annual inflation rate in the European Union in October 2009, namely 4.3 percent, whereas the annual inflation rate in the European Union was 0.5 percent as against 0.3 percent in September, according to a revised estimate publish ...

The National Bank of Romania (BNR) decided on Monday to release money from the mandatory reserve set up by the commercial banks in order to cover the foreign financing deficit, central bank officials announced.'The National Bank's Administration ...

The Health Ministry has announced that over the past 24 hours there have been confirmed 82 new cases of A/H1N1 virus bringing the overall cases reported in Romania until Sunday at 12 a.m. at 1,335.The Health Ministry stressed that following the confirma ...

Candidates in the presidential race Traian Basescu, endorsed by the Democrat-Liberal Party (PD-L) and liberal Crin Antonescu on Saturday in Cluj-Napoca (north-west of Bucharest) in the first debate organized since the beginning of the electoral campaign ...

A Romanian citizen aged 28 infected with A(H1N1) died on Saturday in Salerno, the Campania region, the most affected zone in Italy by the epidemic, the ANSA informs.The Romanian passed away at the 'San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona' Hosp ...

Weight of loan payment default rose 4-fold in September 2009 compared to Sept. 2008, announced Prime Vice-governor of Romania's National Bank (BNR) Florin Georgescu, present in a banking forum.'Overdue loan payments rose 4-fold from Sept. 2008 c ...

The budget deficit represented 5.2 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) January through October this year, Minister of Public Finance Gheorghe Pogea on Tuesday stated, at the conference called 'Top of industrialists', organized by CONIPRO ...