Geography of Romania
Romanian Jewish Community Hails Return of Nazi-Looted Heritage
Seventeen funeral scrolls and manuscripts stolen from Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust will now be returned to their rightful owners, the US Department of Justice said on Thursday.
SoNoRo Musikland Festival, between July 30 and August 8
The third edition of the SoNoRo Musikland Festival will take place in the July 30 - August 8 period, in some of the most beautiful villages and towns in Transylvania: Brasov, Cris, Feldioara, Sighisoara, Prod, Mesendorf, Viscri and Magura.
A photographer from Odorheiu Secuiesc receives "European Citizen's Prize 2021" for Geofolk project
Photographer David Botond, from Odorheiu Secuiesc, has received the "European Citizen 2021" Prize from the European Parliament for the Geofolk project, which brings together the largest collection of photographs in the world with folk costumes, images captured in recent years.
Wildfire in Iron Gates Natural Park burning on two sides of slope
The vegetation fire in the Iron Gates Natural Park is burning on two sides of a slope, the Mehedinti Emergency Management Inspectorate (ISU) informs. "Following the fly-over carried out by a helicopter requested in support, it was noticed that the fire is burning on two sides of the slope, in its upper part.
Wildfire bursts out in Iron Gates Natural Park
Firefighters of the Mehedinti Emergency Management Inspectorate (ISU) on Friday stepped in to put out a fire that broke out in dry vegetation and litter in a coniferous forest in Dubova - Tisovita area the Iron Gates Natural Park, Mehedinti County. According to ISU Mehedinti, first estimates show the fire covered about five to six hectares.
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Fog triggers massive 40-car pileup on eastbound Bucharest - Constanta motorway
Eastbound traffic is halted Friday morning on the Bucharest - Constanta A2 motorway near the city of Medgidia due to a multi-vehicle collision that triggered a pileup of 40 cars; 17 people, five children included, were injured and one victim was trapped, the Infotrafic Center of the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police informs. The red intervention plan has been activated.
Dragnea released from prison: Two years of torment and suffering; ferocious dictatorship in today's Romania
Former national leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Liviu Dragnea was released from the Rahova Penitentiary on Thursday after serving more than two and a half years of a three-and-a-half-year sentence received in 2019 in the case of fictitious employment at the Teleorman child protection agency.
UNESCO Row Reignites Battle over Roman Gold Mine in Romania
Eight years after civil society groups in Romania thwarted a plan to extract gold from the former Roman mine of Rosia Montana, battle has resumed over the question of UNESCO protection.
UBB University, among world's top 500, first in Romania for economics, econometrics
The Faculty of Economics and Business Management (FSEGA) of the Cluj-Napoca-based Babes-Bolyai University (UBB) is ranking among the top 500 educational institutions in the world and it is first in Romania for subjects of economics and econometrics, according to Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) 2021.
LabMin Turcan: 100,000 jobs created year to date, encouraging upward trend
Minister of Labor and Social Protection Raluca Turcan told a press conference today in Cluj-Napoca that some 100,000 new jobs have been created in Romania since the beginning of the year, most of them on an indefinite term, which is encouraging. "About 100,000 jobs have appeared in Romania since January 1, 2021 to date.