Sources: Mediafax
A court in Romania rules that the human trafficking trial of British businessman Andrew Tate can proceed. 2024-04-26
Bulgaria and Romania reach an agreement with Austria to become members of the Schengen Area through sea and air routes in March, with discussions regarding the opening of land borders scheduled to begin next year. 2023-12-28
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says over two million Ukrainians have now fled the country since the invasion began. Most have gone to neighbouring Poland, with Hungary, Romania and Slovakia also taking in several hundred thousand refugees each. 2022-03-9
Romania imposes a nationwide curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. and makes face masks mandatory in all public venues in an attempt to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases. The country also begins to implement a mandatory green certificate for shopping malls, restaurants, public institutions and workplaces. 2021-10-25
Romania surpasses 30,000 cases of COVID-19 and sets a daily record of 555 new cases. 2020-07-8
Romania's Supreme Court denies Social Democratic Party leader Liviu Dragnea's appeal of his conviction and three-and-a-half year prison sentence for corruption. 2019-05-27
The American pop star Madonna agrees on a settlement with her former husband Guy Ritchie over their son. 2016-09-7
Romanian President Traian Băsescu sparks a new crisis by refusing to sign the country's IMF accord and threatens Prime Minister Victor Ponta's government with rejecting the national budget, blocking important indexations of salaries and pensions for the following year, over an ongoing political feud between the two leaders. 2013-12-3
The Qatari-owned satellite channel, Al Jazeera, reports that traces of radioactive polonium-210 have been found in some personal effects of former PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004; the PLO and Arafat’s widow agree to his exhumation to investigate if he had been poisoned. 2012-07-4
At least 2 people are killed and 6 injured after a shooting in a hair salon in Bucharest, Romania. 2012-03-5