Romania Archives

Russia mined Ukraine's Black Sea coastline in the early stages of its invasion last year

World

Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania to sign Black Sea demining deal

NATO members Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania will sign this week a preliminary agreement on demining the Black Sea, officials said on Wednesday. The Russian...

AFPJanuary 10, 2024

Several woman allege abuse by Bivolaru, here seen outside a Romanian court in 2004

World

Tantric yoga sect guru to appear before France judge

The leader of a controversial tantric yoga sect was to go before a French judge on Friday, a judicial source said, after he was...

AFPDecember 1, 2023

Paul Philip Al Romaniei, 75, has been found guilty in his home country of working with a gang of con artists to recover properties he believes are his

World

French court refuses extradition of Romanian royal descendant

The Paris appeals court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Romania for the extradition of a descendant of the country’s last kings, which had...

AFPNovember 29, 2023

NATO has stepped up its efforts to boost the alliance's southeastern flank defences by sending additional battlegroups to the region

World

French jets join NATO drills in Romania to bolster defence

French fighter jets taxied alongside the Romanian Air Force after thundering through the sky above the Fetesti air base, as NATO bolsters its military...

AFPOctober 27, 2023

Fangs for coming: visitors admire one of the few portraits of Vlad III, aka Dracula, in Austria's Forchtenstein Castle

World

Vlad the Impaler steps out of Dracula’s shadow

Cloaked in a black cape like the infamous count himself, 10-year-old Niklas Schuetz runs through the dark corridors of a hill-top castle in search...

AFPOctober 26, 2023

A bear eats a sandwich thrown by a passing driver, who films the animal with his mobile phone

World

Keep or cull? Romania divided over its bear population

It was a sight that stopped traffic. A brown bear seemingly asleep, its head on its paws, on a winding forest road in central...

AFPOctober 23, 2023

Romanian soldiers at work building a bomb shelter in the border town of Plauru on Tuesday

World

Romania builds air-raid shelters near Ukraine border

NATO member Romania announced Tuesday that it has begun building air-raid shelters for residents near the Ukraine border, after drone fragments were found there...

AFPSeptember 12, 2023

Dozens of firefifghters were among the injured in the two explosions at the unlicensed LPG filling station near Bucharest

World

Two dead, 56 injured in Romania gas station blasts

Prosecutors opened an inquiry Sunday into two explosions at an unlicensed liquefied petroleum gas filling station that left two people dead and 56 people...

AFPAugust 27, 2023