Efforts are still ongoing to rescue civilians trapped for weeks in a Mariupol steel plant with at least 50 more evacuated on Friday. Meanwhile the US has promised another $150 million military aid package to Ukraine.
The leaders of the G7 nations (...)
International Roma Day on 8 April is a key date to mark Romani culture, made more significant in Romania since the passing of last year's landmark legislation there, to combat hate speech against the Roma – the first law of its kind in (...)
Russia's war in Ukraine is taking on a new dimension with growing evidence of human rights atrocities by Vladimir Putin's troops, accused of killing civilians in cold blood as they retreated from the Kiev region.
Moves are afoot to investigate war (...)
Nataliia Vladimirova fled her home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on the first day of the Russian invasion, on 24 February, with her four-year-old daughter Oleksandra and mother-in-law. They are amongst the thousands of Ukrainian refugees with temporary (...)
Is it selfish to bring your pet along when you are being evacuated from a war zone?
Arya Aldrin, a 20-year-old medical student who just fled Ukraine with her Siberian husky in tow, doesn't think so: "It would have been more selfish to leave my dog (...)
Thousands of people took to the streets in cities across Europe, and all around the world on Saturday, to protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In Georgia, a country that was the victim of a Russian invasion in 2008, some 30,000 people (...)
The US has agreed to respond to Russia's demands over NATO positions in Europe in writing next week, Sergei Lavrov said on Friday after a second round of talks over Ukraine.
Russia's foreign minister described his two-hour discussion with his US (...)
Romania's new government led by ex-general Nicolae Ciuca took the oath of office on Thursday soon after winning a vote of confidence in Parliament with overwhelming support.
The official installment of the three-party coalition government put an end (...)
Intensive care units and morgues are filling up in Romania amid record levels of Covid-19 related deaths and one of Europe's lowest vaccination rates, CNN reports.
Doctors say they can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, as vast swathes of the (...)
Europe and Central Asia are once again at the "epicenter" of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a possible 500,000 additional deaths before February 1, the World Health Organization (WHO)'s European regional director said at a press conference.
Dr Hans (...)
Europe and Central Asia are once again at the "epicenter" of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a possible 500,000 additional deaths before February 1, the World Health Organization (WHO)'s European regional director said at a press conference.
Dr Hans (...)
Romania's caretaker defense minister Nicolae Ciuca has been nominated to try and form a new government.
Ciuca was named as the latest prime minister-designate by Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday.
The reserve army general has been tasked (...)
Romanian MPs have failed to support a minority government led by Prime Minister-designate Dacian Cioloș.
Cioloș' proposal fell well short of the 234 votes it needed to pass, with most lawmakers abstaining from voting or voting against it. (...)
Romania has recorded one of the highest per capita COVID-19 death rates, according to Our World In Data.
The EU member state has now registered 18.2 fatalities per one million of the population, second only to Saint Vincent and the (...)
Romania's leader-designate Dacian Ciolos has unveiled his pick for a new government made up entirely of members of his own USR party after failing to strike a coalition deal with the National Liberal Party (PNL) and ethnic Hungarian parties in (...)
The former European Commissioner Dacian Cioloș has been tasked with forming a new government in Romania.
Cioloș — who served as Romanian Prime Minister from 2015 to 2017 — was appointed to try and lead a new executive by President Klaus Iohannis.
"I (...)
COVID-19 cases continue to surge in some European countries while governments work to extend vaccination campaigns to prevent more deaths due to the virus.
Romania's president said the situation was now "a catastrophe" while Latvia entered a new (...)
Romania's government has been toppled after a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Florin Citu was passed with a huge majority in parliament.
The motion was passed by 281 votes, far more than the 234 required, with Citu's National Liberal Party (...)
At least nine people are dead after a hospital fire in Romania on Friday.
Romania's emergency situations inspectorate said it happened in the port city of Constanta, on the Black Sea.
It said the fire had now been extinguished and all patients (...)
It has been just nine months since the elections that saw the National Liberal Party (PNL) narrowly cling to power in Romania by forging a coalition with political newcomers and kingmakers, USR-Plus.
That election saw the end of the tenure as prime (...)
Millions of people in England are poised for their first chance in months for haircuts, casual shopping and restaurant meals on Monday, as the government takes the next step on its lockdown-lifting road map.
Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are (...)
Police in Paris have arrested nine people and fined about 160 more since the beginning of the weekend for clandestinely meeting in closed restaurants despite COVID-19 restrictions.
Protests against COVID-19 restrictions were meanwhile held in (...)
Thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday in several European countries against coronavirus restrictions, on the day France and Poland began imposing new partial lockdowns and as other nations consider similar moves to curb soaring (...)
Italy on Monday logged 318 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, putting its tally at 100,103 and making it the second country after the UK to pass the grim milestone of 100,000 fatalities from the disease.
New Prime Minister Mario Draghi (...)
Four people have been killed in southern Ukraine after a fire broke out in a hospital unit for COVID-19 patients.
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