Sources: Mediafax
Patriarch Daniel consecrates the newly-constructed National Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, as the country's largest cathedral with the capacity for 5,000 worshippers and the patriarchal seat of the Romanian Orthodox Church. 2025-10-26
Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu announces he will boycott the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics due to an initial judging error in another competitor's Women's floor gymnastics routine, which after being corrected, caused Romanian gymnast Ana Bărbosu to move from bronze medal position to 4th place. 2024-08-6
Three people were killed and 46 others were injured in series of explosions at a liquefied petroleum gas station in Crevedia, Romania. 2023-08-26
Four people are killed and eight others are injured when a bus travelling from Istanbul, Turkey, to Bucharest, Romania, crashes near Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. 2022-08-6
Romania reports its first case of the Lineage B.1.617 variant first detected in India in a person from Brașov County. 2021-04-29
Romania imposes a nationwide nighttime curfew and closes all schools for 30 days beginning November 9 after the number of daily infections surges over the past two weeks. All shops will close by 9:00 p.m. and people will have to stay home from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. local time. It also widens the compulsory use of face masks to all outdoor spaces across the country and orders all indoor farm produce markets to close. 2020-11-6
Romania surpasses 2,000 deaths from COVID-19 and sets a daily record of 889 new cases. 2020-07-18
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, warns Romania and Poland against hosting parts of the U.S. missile defense shield. 2016-05-28
Romanian hacker Guccifer is indicted in absentia in a federal court in the U.S. state of Virginia for hacking into the e-mails of American government officials and family members. 2014-06-13
In a landslide victory, Prime Minister Victor Ponta's ruling Social Liberal Union wins nearly 60% of votes in Romania's parliamentary election, with a projected 66-67% of MP mandates. 2012-12-10