AGERPRES

Director General of Romania's National News Agency AGERPRES Alexandru Giboi on Tuesday was elected to the board of the Black Sea Association of National News Agencies (BSANNA).

The election was part of the 7th convention of the BSANNA general assembly hosted by Erevan, Armenia.

Romania's National News Agency AGERPRES has won, for the 11th time and 4 times in a row, the News Agency Trophy of the Gaudeamus International Educational Book Fair in Bucharest.

Since the establishment of Gaudeamus trophies in 1997, AGERPRES won the news agency trophy in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. AGERPRES

Romanian boxing athletes Marian Pita (welterweight, 69 kg) and Ovidiu Berceanu (flyweight) both won gold this Saturday at the 39th edition of the International Boxing Tournament 'Golden Belt - Nicolae Linca' held at the Chiajna Sports Hall; both out-boxed their opponents, making clear wins on points in the final gala, while the third Romanian in the finals, Razvan Andreiana (feath

The National Institute of Research and Development for Energy Engineering (INCPE) in Bucharest reaped new international successes at the INNOVA Show of the EUREKA International Contest held in Brussels (Belgium) between November 13 - 15, general manager of the institute Wilhelm Kappel told AGERPRES on Saturday.

The two servicemen wounded in the helicopter crash in Sibiu County, Captain-commodore Corneliu-Gabriel Titian - aged 47, and Chief Master Sergeant Valentin Bora - aged 41, were brought Friday evening to Bucharest aboard a military plane.

The two servicemen wounded in the air crash that took place in Sibiu County will be brought with a military C-27 J Spartan aircraft from Targu Mures to Bucharest, a release of the Ministry of National Defence remitted to AGERPRES informs.

A helicopter has crashed on Friday near the town of Medias (north of Sibiu County, central Romania), sources in the county police say.

Inventor Ionut Budisteanu from Ramnicu Valcea (southern Romania) is getting ready to launch his first industrial robot, 'Pick and Place Machine' on Kickstarter platform, an invention that will be able to make around 6,000-7,000 electronic devices a month.

A draft law on amnesty and pardons that would have helped jailed Romanian politicians was overwhelmingly rejected by the country's Parliament on Tuesday.

Klaus Iohannis, the presidential candidate of the Christian Liberal Union, thanked Romanians for voting in his statement immediately after the polls closed at 9pm; he called his fellow citizens 'heroes.'