Sources: Mediafax
Four people in Poland, three in the Czech Republic, and one in Romania, are killed during massive floods, bringing the death toll from the ongoing flood in Central and Eastern Europe to 16. 2024-09-16
Romania approves the culling of 481 bears in the country, after a 19-year-old woman was killed by a bear last week in the Carpathian Mountains. 2024-07-16
A Syrian man is arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Israeli embassy in Bucharest, Romania and attempting to self-immolate. 2024-06-3
Romania reports its first two cases of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa in people from Bucharest and Pitești. 2021-03-5
London's Metropolitan Police reports that around 200 books worth £2.5 million were recovered from a house in Neamț County, Romania. The books, believed to have been stolen by Romanian gangs from a London warehouse in January 2017, include first editions by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei and English scientist Isaac Newton, and sketches by Spanish painter Francisco Goya. 2020-09-18
Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă sacks Minister of Education Ecaterina Andronescu for her controversial comments in a television interview about murdered 15-year-old girl Alexandra Măceșanu, saying she was "taught not to get in cars with strangers". A 65-year-old man has since admitted killing Alexandra Măceșanu and another teenage girl who has been missing since April. 2019-08-2
NATO's Aegis Ashore Ballistic Missile Defense System becomes partly operational at Romania's Deveselu airbase, as U.S. Navy personnel takes control of the site after years of construction. Aegis Ashore facilities in Romania form part of NATO's European missile defence system, with another site under construction in Poland expected to become operational by 2018. The United States Ambassador to Romania Hans G. Klemm says that they have explained to the Russians on numerous occasions that the missile system is, "not directed at Russia, nor does it have the capability to threaten Russia." The head of Russia's Strategic Missile Troops, Colonel General Sergei Karakayev, has dismissed the purported effectiveness of the missile defense system, saying Moscow develops “brand new and effective means and techniques to penetrate any missile defense system”. 2015-12-18
Five people died and a woman was injured in a helicopter crash, in Romania [http:--www.puterea.ro-eveniment-elicopter-prabusit-in-lacul-din-localitatea-taureni-5-oameni-si-au-pierdut-viata-76129.html (Puterea.ro)]date=August 2013date=August 20132013-07-29
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
Sebastian Vlădescu is replaced as Romanian Minister of Finance by Gheorghe Ialomitianu as part of a Cabinet reshuffle. 2010-09-2