Geography of Romania

Romanian police discovered 48 Iraqi migrants in a truck at the border with Bulgaria, AP reports.

The truck driver was Bulgarian and showed police documents to claim he was driving a load of chocolate to Hungary and did not now migrants were inside.

Hungary was also the destination reported by the migrants, 22 men, 9 women and 17 minors.

The mayors of 11 of Romanian counties who were re-elected in the local polls on June 5 have either been accused of or are under investigation for corruption.

Investigations by the National Anti-Corruption Directorate, the DNA, have not stopped many Romanian politicians from campaigning for office in the June elections.

Around 8,000 people, most of them union members at the Dacia car factory in Pitesti, took to the streets of the southern town on Monday to protest about the Romanian government's failure to start work on a new highway in the south. 

The project has been discussed for years, but the government postponed it several times due to disagreements over the best route. 

Often atopped with a stork's nest, the fortified towers of the Saxon churches of Transylvania have been a striking feature of the landscape here for many centuries.

Some date back to the early Middle Ages, when Transylvania's then Hungarian rulers invited Germans to come and settle the borders of the kingdom.

The weather will be cloudy and windy in Serbia on Monday, the Hydro-Meteorological Institute (RHMZ) announced this morning.

Snowdrifts could form in mountain areas due to strong winds, as well as in the lower Danube basin and in southern Banat, RHMZ said.

Prosecutors from the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism, DIICOT, on Tuesday held a 17-year-old man from the southern city of Craiova for allegedly distributing video material inciting Islamist violence.

More than 100,000 Romanians are expected to visit the main book fair in the capital, Bucharest, from November 18 to 22 November, which suggest that reading is alive and well in the country.

"Transylvania is experiencing a renaissance," travel guide Lonely Planet says in its latest survey of the top travel destinations in 2016.

Up to half a million Romanians are expected to take part in a three-day pilgrimage to a saint's shrine, which started on Friday.

Believers are lining up in queues stretching for miles to worship the relics of St Parascheva, which lie in the northeastern town of Iasi.

The Romania's Orthodox Church believes the saint's relics perform miracles.