Sources: Mediafax
Six individuals, including retired general and far-right politician Radu Theodoru, are arrested on accusations of being involved in a Russian-backed coup d'état plot in Romania. 2025-03-6
A court in Romania rules that the human trafficking trial of British businessman Andrew Tate can proceed. 2024-04-26
Attorney-General, House Leader, and Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter comes forward as the minister accused of raping a woman in 1988, who has since committed suicide, in an anonymous letter sent to Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week. Porter denies the allegations and announces that he will be taking a mental health leave. 2021-03-3
Romanians go to the polls to vote in a referendum on changing the Constitution to redefine marriage as being only between a man and a woman. 2018-10-6
An anomalous weather event caused due to dust from a sandstorm in the Sahara, leads to an orange snow blanketing several Eastern European countries, including Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania and Russia. This weather event happens roughly every five years; a similar event occurred in Siberia in 2007. 2018-03-25
Romania is expelled from this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden, after its national broadcaster, Romanian Television (TVR) failed to pay outstanding debts dating back to 2007. Ovidiu Anton was due to perform the song "Moment of Silence" at the contest. 2016-04-22
Romania unfurls the world's largest flag ever made, according to Guinness World Records. 2013-05-27
Israel confirms that in 2010 it secretly imprisoned an Australian–Israeli man, known as Prisoner X, and that he committed suicide in custody. 2013-02-13
Foxconn states its intention to hire more workers following a rash of suicides among its workforce. 2010-08-19