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The storm on Tuesday evening affected 15 counties and the city of Bucharest, 44 places being hit by stormy rains, with 140 homesteads and 62 houses flooded, said Minister of Administration and the Interior Dan Nica on Wednesday. According to him ...

Prime‑minister Emil Boc will participate on Thursday in the ceremonies dedicated to the 20 years since the regaining of liberty and fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, organized by the Government of the Republic of Poland, in Kr ...

President Traian Basescu reiterated, on Wednesday, on public TV, that no decision has yet been made on his candidacy for the election this autumn, he added that a decision in this respect could come when he realized that he found, along with the g ...

Romania's national dailies of Thursday give main coverage to politicians urging the Romanian voters to show up to vote in Sunday's European election; the findings of a recent Transparency International poll indicating that Parliament is th ...

Heavy rains of up to 50 liters per square meters expected throughout Romania have prompted hydrologists to issue a flood advisory for 21 counties from Tuesday afternoon until Wednesday afternoon. Heavy rains of up to 50 liters per square meters e ...

Romanias Constitutional Court decided Tuesday that the provisions of Government Emergency Ordinance 151/2008 regarding wage hikes for teachers, which blocked the 50% pay raise for teachers, are unconstitutional. The Constitutional Court on Tues ...

Romanian education unions threaten to call on the International Labor Organization and European Court of Human Rights if Law 221/2008, increasing their income by 50%, is not applied. The unions agreed with the Constitutional Courts decision to de ...

A 19‑year‑old teenager who arrived from New York recently was admitted to the infectious diseases hospital in Cluj, northeast Romania, with swine flu‑like symptoms, health ministry officials said Tuesday. The new patient with su ...

Bucharest councilors approved on Tuesday the draft decision on the partnership of the Local Councils of districts 1 and 2 to execute the cable car project and to outfit the series of lakes on Colentina river, which will be the cars route. Accordi ...

Several streets in Romanias capital city Bucharest were flooded Tuesday evening during a violent storm that also fell trees and broke peoples windows. Bucharest police spokesman said Christian Ciocan said one tree fell on the street near the cent ...

Romanian President Traian Basescu said Tuesday evening, when he returned to Romania after a three‑day official visit to Israel, that he reconfirmed Romanias support for the peaceful two‑state solution, Israel and Palestine, "livin ...

The European bison reserve at Slivut (central Romania) has a new member, after one of the female bison on Monday bred a calf, whom the rangers named Romeo, at the suggestion of a family who had come to visit the park and witnessed the birth of the ...

The Italian enterprisers are satisfied with their activity in Romania and want to continue to contribute to the economic growth of this country, said, on Tuesday, deputy prime minister for Economic Development and minister delegate for internation ...

In a statement to journalists upon returning from an official visit to Israel, President Traian Basescu on Tuesday evening said that he reconfirmed in Jerusalem Romania's support for the two‑state solution in Israel, that is the existenc ...

Romanian Democratic Liberal Party vice‑president Gheorghe Flutur said Monday that the ruling coalition has asked the Government to decide on Wednesday when it is to take responsibility for adopting the legal Codes. Flutur said Democratic Li ...

Romanian health minister Ion Bazac said on Monday that people coming to Romania by plane who do not fill in the form regarding their health or provide false information will be held criminally liable. Bazac said people who fill in the form using ...

Romanian social democrat leader and Senate chairman, Mircea Geoana, said Monday that the "First Home" program mainly targets people with incomes above the average, adding the social democrats will ask the government to simultaneously lau ...

Romanian state‑owned nuclear energy company Nuclearelectrica restarted Monday the operations at nuclear reactor 1 of the country's sole nuclear power plant in Cernavoda, which was shut down Saturday due to a cracked water pipe. Nucleare ...

The prices of both old and new apartments in Romania's capital city, Bucharest, fell by an average 1% on the month in May, and they were down 10% compared with the beginning of the year, according to a report of real estate company Colliers In ...

The boyfriend of a 28‑year‑old Romanian woman infected with the new H1N1 virus was admitted to the hospital with swine flu‑like symptoms on Monday, the Health Ministry said in a statement. Lab results to confirm or dismiss a pos ...