Sources: Mediafax
Mohamed Amra, a French criminal and suspected drug lord known as "The Fly", is recaptured in Romania, nine months after escaping during an ambush that killed two French prison officers. 2025-02-22
Romania reports a record 19,105 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,964,021. 2022-01-20
Romania surpasses 2,000 deaths from COVID-19 and sets a daily record of 889 new cases. 2020-07-18
Chris Cornell, the lead vocalist for the Seattle rock band Soundgarden, commits suicide by hanging in Detroit, Michigan after a concert at the age of 52. 2017-05-18
A small plane carrying medics makes a forced landing in a remote mountain area in Transylvania, Romania, and is found after a four and a half hour massive search. The accident leaves the pilot and a passenger dead with several others being injured. 2014-01-20
Romanian investigators find the remains of paint, canvas and nails in the oven of a woman whose son is charged with stealing seven paintings by Picasso, Monet and Matisse from the Kunsthal gallery in October 2012. 2013-07-18
Prominent French lawyer Olivier Metzner is found dead of an apparent suicide. 2013-03-17
Forest fires in Catalonia, Spain kill four people, with fires also in France, Portugal and Romania. 2012-07-23
At least 17 people are seriously injured after two gas explosions at a nightclub in the city of Sighetu Marmației, Romania. 2012-02-19
France's government begins to deport thousands of Romani people, who are mainly from Romania and Bulgaria; Romania fears this will lead to xenophobic tensions. 2010-08-19