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MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Simona Halep goes in search of a first Grand Slam at the Australian Open next week without a sponsor, but happy she’ll be able to wear her “lucky” red dress. The world number one admitted she unusually had “no brand clothes” to wear at Melbourne Park for the first Grand Slam of the year after ending her deal with Adidas last season. “I have no contract now. Yeah, it’s an interesting […]
BUCHAREST, Romania (AFP) — A storm packing powerful winds ripped off roofs and toppled trees in Romania on Sunday, killing eight people and injuring dozens more, authorities and witnesses said. With gusts that reached nearly 100 kilometres (60 miles) an hour, the storm pounded the area around the western city of Timisoara before heading north toward Ukraine. Most of the victims were outside when the winds swept in. One man was hit by a falling tree, another […]
BUCHAREST, Romania (AFP) – Romania’s bid to overhaul its justice system could undermine the country’s efforts to stamp out rampant corruption, the European Commission’s representative in Bucharest said Wednesday. The reforms set out by Justice Minister Tudorel Toader last week would mean the president could no longer name senior prosecutors — including those attached to the anti-corruption directorate (DNA). They would also reduce the powers of the DNA itself, preventing it from investigating magistrates. “We are […]
BUCHAREST, Romania (AFP) — Romanian lawmakers unanimously approved Monday a proposal to hold a referendum on corruption after mass protests forced the government to withdraw a decree that would have watered down anti-graft legislation. The proposal was put forward by centre-right President Klaus Iohannis, a fierce critic of the left-wing government. He now has to suggest what the question will be and when the referendum will take place. Romania has been rocked by two weeks […]
by Mihaela Rodina and Simon Sturdee Agence France Presse BUCHAREST ROmania (AFP) — An estimated half-million Romanians took to the street in another night of protests Sunday, with many calling on the government to quit even after it scrapped the corruption legislation that sparked the week of public outrage. Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu stood firm, however, saying his government, which has barely been in office a month, “has a responsibility to the people who voted […]
by Mihaela Rodina and Anca Teodorescu Agence France-Presse BUCHAREST, Romania (AFP) – Romania’s prime minister insisted Thursday that the government will press ahead with decrees decriminalising certain corruption offences, defying the country’s biggest protests since the end of communism. “We took a decision in the government and we are going to press ahead,” Sorin Grindeanu said after a meeting in Bucharest of his ruling left-wing Social Democrats (PSD). In the largest demonstrations since the fall of […]
by Mihaela RODINA Agence france Presse BUCHAREST, Romania (AFP) — Hundreds of thousands of people hit the streets across Romania on Wednesday to protest against the government’s decriminalizing of a string of corruption offenses, the largest demonstrations since the fall of communism in 1989. Between 200,000 and 300,000 protesters, according to media estimates, braved sub-zero temperatures to demonstrate, with some shouting “Thieves!” and “Resign!” a day after the government passed an emergency decree. In the […]
BUCHAREST, Romania (AFP) — A brown bear was shot dead in Romania on Wednesday after entering from an adjacent forest and ambling over the roofs of a Transylvanian town, authorities said. “Two employees from the zoo tried to tranquilise it but this didn’t work,” said Luciana Lazar, a spokeswoman for police in Sibiu in central Romania. “So unfortunately the bear had to be killed because it became aggressive and people’s lives were in danger,” Lazar […]
(Reuters) — A candle-lit memorial is set up outside a Bucharest nightclub on Saturday (October 31) and Romania’s government declared a three-day national mourning, after an overnight fire killed 27 people and injured 184 during a rock concert that featured fireworks used indoors. In one of the capital’s worst disasters in decades, up to 500 people, mostly young adults, stampeded for the only available exit as the club in the basement of a Communist-era sport-shoe factory […]
