Romanians voted on Sunday in a tight presidential election seen as a chance to resolve a political crisis that has hindered the recent ...
Campaigning intensified Saturday ahead of Romania's presidential election with incumbent Traian Basescu attacking the opposition and the media in his bid for a ...
Romania is forbidding people from visiting patients at all hospitals due to a surge in swine flu cases, a health ministry official said Monday. The official, Dr. Adrian Streinu-Cercel, said 174 new cases of A(H1N1) were recorded in the past week alone, ...
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden gestures while delivering a speech at the Central University Library in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Biden says the former Soviet republic of Moldova should join NATO when it is ready to _ a move Russia ...
US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Romania Wednesday after a one-day visit to Warsaw where he secured Poland's approval for a new US anti-missile system. Biden's plane touched down at Bucharest airport at 20H30 local time (17H3O GMT), according to an ...
Thousands of Romanians protested outside the government headquarters in Bucharest Wednesday against a freeze on public sector wages amid a severe recession in the biggest demonstration in 10 years. The protesters -- numbering 15,000 according to the police and 30,000 according to ...
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania is better known for pickpockets and stray dogs than for first-rate concerts of Beethoven and Brahms, and it knows it has an image problem. "We are the criminals and the thieves of Europe," said Mihai Constantinescu, executive director ...
Some 800,000 teachers, medical workers and other public sector employees are on strike to protest a law they say cuts their salaries. Some schools were closed Monday and in others teachers were only supervising. Medical staff members are only treating emergency cases. ...
Romania's President Traian Basescu announced Saturday he would run for a second five-year term in the November 22 election, only days after the collapse of the ruling coalition. "Yes, I will run for president," Basescu said during a meeting with villagers at ...
For the first time since he left Romania in 1946, works of the painter and sculptor Horia Damian, an important figure of contemporary art, are on show in two exhibitions in his home country, in Bucharest. "Today he is giving joy just ...
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - His fans call classical virtuoso Murray Perahia "the poet of the piano," but he very nearly became a silent one. In 1991, at the height of his career, after winning piano competitions, releasing award-winning recordings and wowing critics and ...
BUCHAREST (Reuters Life!) - Helene Grimaud, the French pianist whose work to protect wolves is almost as famous as her music career, is unaware her compatriot Brigitte Bardot angered Romanians by trying to save the stray dogs of Bucharest. "I didn't know ...
