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Bucharest, Aug 14 /Agerpres / - The Chamber of Deputies' Defence Committee Bureau decided on Tuesday to send invitations to Interior Minister Carmen Dan, Bucharest Prefect Speranta Cliseru and Gendarmerie officials to hearings into the August 10 street protests.

Bucharest, Aug 14 /Agerpres/ - The man who stole the gun off the woman gendarme injured in the protests of Friday night in Victory Square in Bucharest was identified and taken for hearings, a detainment ordinance in his name being issued, while investigations continue to find the stolen gun and to identify the other participants in the aggression, the Bucharest Police announced.

Romania is prepared to organise on May 9 2019 the informal Summit of the heads of state and government, in the context of our country exercising the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, shows a press release on Monday remitted to AGERPRES by the Sibiu City Hall.

Bucharest, Aug 10 /Agerpres/ - Over 20,000 people are protesting in front of the Government building in Victoria Square in central Bucharest.

A part of those present have repeatedly tried to force the fences put up by the gendarmerie. They have replied with tear gas and a water cannon.

Bucharest, Aug 10 /Agerpres / - "Diaspora at Home" is the motto under which Romanians living abroad are expected to gather in Piata Victoriei in Bucharest today for a protest rally announced on social media.

Facebook groups have over the past weeks created several public events for August 10 in Bucharest, with Romanians from abroad and other places having voiced intention to attend.

The Cinemascop Film Festival closed Sunday night, after five days of film screening and AGERPRES photo exhibition mounting admired by hundreds of people in the Eforie Sud Black Sea resort's summer garden.

Bucharest, August 6 /Agerpres/ - Romania's Under-20 national rugby side are continuing training for the 2018 World Rugby Under 20 Trophy, a competition to be held in Bucharest at the Arcul de Triumf Stadium, August 28 - September 9.

Bucharest, Aug 4 /Agerpres/ - The "Suceava Air Show" has been canceled after two small aircraft collided in mid-air early on Saturday at Fratautii Vechi (north-eastern Romania) and one of the pilots died, the prefect of Suceava, Mirela Adomnicai, told AGERPRES.

The prefect said that, following the crash, prosecutors are investigating the scene.

More than 5.2 million arrivals were registered in the Romanian tourist accommodation units in the first six months of this year, up 4.1pct compared to the same period of last year, 75.8pct being arrivals of Romanian tourists, according to the data released by the National Institute of Statistics on Friday for AGERPRES.

The ambassador of the Swiss Confederation to Romania, Urs Herren, on Wednesday night said in the opening of the Academy Sighisoara that he is fascinated with this initiative that has reached its 25th celebration, on the very day when the Swiss modern state celebrates 170 years.