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After nearly two weeks of anti-government protests, Romania's leader acknowledged on Wednesday that some citizens have lost faith in his leadership but insisted that the austerity measures he has introduced have pulled the country out of a recession.
An international rights group on Friday called on Romanian authorities to investigate allegations of police violence against demonstrators during two weeks of anti-government street protests.
Romanian cities are gripped by the worst street violence in over a decade. Slovaks seem poised to re-elect a confrontational and divisive populist. Hungary alarms the European Union with laws that erode democratic rights.
Hundreds of people gathered in Romania's capital for the eighth day Friday as a U.S. official urged Romanians to avoid the violence that has tarred anti-government protests that have left more than 60 people injured.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP — Meatballs are not taken lightly in the Balkans. Recipes are prized. Favorite restaurants and chefs are endlessly debated. The merits of regional variations can fuel an argument as sizzling hot as a grill itself.
These days, Santa Claus could well feel nostalgic about the time when Romania was a Communist country and its governments frowned upon Christmas.
One model dressed as a Transylvanian roof, while another sashayed in an outfit meant to resemble the streets of Bucharest.
A former king stripped of his citizenship for fleeing a brutal communist dictatorship was applauded by the Romanian parliament Tuesday as he made his first address to the chamber in 65 years.
Times are so hard in Romania that people joke they cannot afford to die. Yet in the mountains of Transylvania, carpenters are churning out cut-price coffins in a bid to beat the rising costs of death.
Romania's foreign minister says his country will abstain on voting on Palestinian statehood if the issue arises at a U.N. General Assembly session next week.
This is fairy tale land and there's even a pot of gold buried beneath it.
It's only a dress, but it's the talk of Romania.
The Romanian Academy will alter its definition of an anti-Semitic slur in a dictionary to make it clear the word is pejorative.
One person attending Britain's royal wedding has seen it all before: Michael I, the taciturn former king of Romania.
A moonwalking politician might not be the best reason to pay attention to Romanian politics, but the antics seem to be working.
The wedding was watched on television by 2.5 million people. The marriage played out under the media microscope. And now, almost five years later, Romania is again riveted as the nation's most famous couple divorces.
CHITILA, Romania (AP — Everyone curses the tax man, but Romanian witches angry about having to pay up for the first time hurled poisonous mandrake into the Danube River on Thursday to cast spells on the president and government.
A Romanian television engineer apparently distraught that budget cuts had reduced benefits for his autistic teenage son dived more than 20 feet (about seven meters) from a balcony onto the floor of Romania's parliament Thursday, then shouted "Freedom!" as emergency workers took him out on a stretcher.
Adrian Paunescu, Romania's most famous poet — a man who praised the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu yet remained popular among Romanians — has died at the age of 67.
DNA tests have confirmed that the grave of Nicolae Ceausescu contains the remains of the Romanian dictator and his wife, the couple's son said Wednesday.
Abandoned mines in Romania leach waters contaminated by heavy metals into rivers. A Hungarian chemical plant produces more than 100,000 tons of toxic substances a year. Soil in eastern Slovakia is contaminated with cancer-producing PCBs.
MAL Rt., the Hungarian Aluminum Production and Trade Company, is a privately held company founded in 1995 as Hungary began to sell off state assets after the 1989 fall of communism.
The Romanian government was in an uproar Monday over austerity protests — the interior minister resigned, the opposition demanded the prime minister go as well and top police officials held emergency talks with the president.
Romania's unpopular government was in turmoil Thursday after the prime minister fired five Cabinet ministers, with the economy minister also saying he will quit.
Gheorghe Apostol, a veteran Communist politician who gained international attention in 1989 by publicly criticizing Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, has died. He was 97.
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