Romania

The National Weather Forecaster has on Thursday issued a Code Yellow warning of downpours and storms for 20 counties to stay in place from 6 p.m. on Thursday till 6 a.m. on Friday.

BELGRADE - The Tourism Organisation of Belgrade will organise free rides on tourist ships on July 5.

The Boat Carnival was previously announced for that day, but it will not be held because of the May floods in Serbia.

Romania's Supreme Council for National Defence (CSAT) has decided that, depending on the NATO's final decision, Romania will contribute some 200 troops and 50 police and gendarme officers to the training, counselling and assistance mission in Afghanistan.

The ratification by the Romanian and the Moldovan Parliament of the Association Agreement of the European Union with the Republic of Moldova represents a "historic moment," Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Wednesday.

Violonist Alexandru Tomescu on Wednesday will be decorated with the Order of the Star of Italy, the Knight Class, for special merits in promoting the Italian culture.

Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton are rooting for Andy Murray against Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov at the quarter final clash at Wimbledon, reports the Daily Mail. 

Sitting in the royal box at Centre Court, the Duchess of Cambridge grimaced with every point the 27-year-old reigning champion conceded as he began his quarter final clash against Dimitrov.

BUJANOVAC - Platinum Wolf 2014 - a military exercise involving 270 servicemen from Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Azerbaijan, Macedonia, Croatia and the United States - is underway at Base South in Bujanovac, southern Serbia.

The Deputies' Chamber on Wednesday adopted the draft laws for the ratification of the Association Agreements between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their member states, on the one hand, and the Republic of Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, on the other hand, signed in Brussels on June 27.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Wednesday said that data released by the National Statistics Institute (INS) attest to Romania's economic growth of nearly 4 per cent, and the negative impact for the last quarter of the year following cuts in the social security contributions (CAS) is fully covered.