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The European Court of Human Rights in a judgment on Thursday said Romania and Lithuania had violated the European prohibition on torture, and ordered them to pay 100,000 euros in damages each to two terrorism suspects who were detained and tortured in CIA jails in the countries.

The second child of Prince William and Kate Middleton - Princess Charlotte, is only three years but is a favorite of the whole world. She collected the applause at the wedding of his uncle Prince Harry days ago.

Bucharest, May 29 /Agerpres/ - US President Donald Trump is controversial both in the United States as in Europe but, "when you look past the controversy and you put that aside, there is a clarity of purpose in US foreign policy", said, in an interview for AGERPRES, foreign policy expert James Carafano.

The Turkish Food, Agriculture, and Livestock Ministry has denied recent reports that beef imported from Poland during 2011-2012 contained bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease.

The first Romanian-Polish intergovernmental meeting was held in Warsaw on Friday, reaching agreement on defence co-operation, intensified political dialogue at all levels in preparation of the Romanian presidency of the Council of the European Union, as well as on holding a Romanian-Polish business forum.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila was welcomed on Friday, within an official ceremony held at the Belweder Palace in Warsaw, by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

After the official photo is taken, the two Prime Ministers are to carry out talks. In parallel, bilateral meetings among the relevant ministers are to take place.

As many as 13,235 visitors participated in special events and visited the exhibitions of the 8 museums and memorial houses with the Bucharest Municipal Museum (MMB) on the Night of Museums, informs a press release sent to AGERPRES.

Romania is the first country to buy Israel's Iron Dome short-range rocket interception system after the state-owned company Romaero signed a deal on Thursday with Israel's Rafael Advanced Systems.

The deal signed in Bucharest was disclosed by the Israeli manufacturer in a press release to the Israeli media. The Romanian buyer did not release any information.

Jacopo Barigazzi, Politico - A new plan for reforming the EU's rules on asylum went down badly Tuesday, with Hungary accusing its authors of trying too hard to please Germany.

Bulgaria, which holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, unveiled its new plan — seen by POLITICO — at a meeting of EU ambassadors, but Budapest was bitterly opposed.

The US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt welcomed an initiative by Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias to organise a meeting of his counterparts from the so-called Visegrad Group countries - the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia - and the Western Balkans, describing it as a "smart call."

Pyatt said the move underlines Greece's role "as a builder of bridges across the region."