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An Education Ministry agency has raised the alarm over the poor performance of a large number of high school students and has called for immediate measures to address the problem.

Today, the European Galileo satellite navigation system will reach 1 billion smartphone users worldwide. This coincides with the 15th anniversary of the European Agency for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GSA), the Commission's main partner in the operation of Galileo.

Yesterday was the International Literacy Day. It was proclaimed by the United Nations on October 17, 1965 and first celebrated in 1966. Its purpose is to promote and enhance community action to educate the needy.

There are silent truths and there are silent lies. Silent truths are usually so self-evident ("night follows day") that we don't need to articulate them. Lies of silence are more potent. They are easier to tell but more painful when they come to light. We know they are there, but we don't admit it.

The Appeals Chamber of the State Court in Bosnia has jailed two former former Bosnian Army members, following a retrial, for six years each, for raping a protected witness who was a minor at the time, in 1993.

It also ordered Samir Kesmer and Mirsad Menzilovic to pay KM 30,000 to Witness A in compensation for non-material damage.

The US-Romania Strategic Partnership is an important demarche for both countries, to which AGERPRES news significantly contributes and also to mutual understanding, US Ambassador to Bucharest Hans Klemm affirms. "On behalf of the  Embassy of the United States, I extend our sincere congratulations to AGERPRES for its 130 succesful years of journalism.

AGERPRES National News Agency stays a reference point as regards the correct, balanced information of the citizens, on Tuesday said the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Liviu Dragnea. "" the Romanian Constitution reads. The press is meant to inform the citizens correctly and objectively, in agreement with the public interest.

Director of the Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum, Paula Popoiu, congratulates AGERPRES on the occasion of the 130th anniversary since its establishment and states that the National News Agency represents 'a very important mark on the map of those who want to obtain true information." "130 years - an impressive age!

The National News Agency is an institution that proves professionalism is held in high regard, the Chair of the Culture, Arts, Mass-Media Committee with the Chamber of Deputies, Gigel Stirbu, says on the occasion of the 130th anniversary since the establishment of AGERPRES. "What I can say is that I appreciate very much what is going on there, at AGERPRES, the work of that team.

The head of the National Peasant's Museum (MNTR), Virgil Stefan Nitulescu, said the AGERPRES National News Agency is a media institution that is "equidistant and serious," concerned with "everything that happens in Romania and in the world." "AGERPRES is the news agency I was born with, to say so.