Romania

Romania

• Romania: 3 sentenced in corrupt real estate deal

  Romania's top court has sentenced the owner of Steaua football club, the former chief of staff of the armed forces and a former defense minister to ... 

• Romania orders retrial of football officials

  Bucharest's highest court has ordered a retrial in the case of eight Romanian football officials who were sentenced to prison for tax evasion and ... 

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  Romanian artist takes his art on the street

  Romanian artist Vasile Muresan, known as Murivale, thinks art belongs on the street. The white-bearded painter can often be seen sitting on the ... 

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  World grapples with rise in cyber crime

  International law enforcement agencies say the recent $45 million dollar ATM heist is just one of many scams they're fighting in an unprecedented wave ... 

• Rosol beats Garcia-Lopez to win Bucharest final

  Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic beat Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3, 6-2 to win the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy for his first ATP title on Sunday. 

• Rosol, Garcia-Lopez reach Bucharest final

  Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic ousted three-time champion Gilles Simon 6-2, 6-3 on Saturday to reach his first career final at the BRD Tiriac ... 

• Gilles Simon reaches semifinals in Bucharest

  Three-time champion Gilles Simon reached the semifinals of the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy on Friday, while top-seeded Janko Tipsarevic was eliminated. 

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  Cyprus further eases limits on money transfers

  Cyprus significantly eased restrictions on money transfers inside and outside the country Thursday to help businesses spur a deeply slumping economy. 

• Top seed Tipsarevic into Bucharest quarters

  Top-seeded Janko Tipsarevic marched into the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy quarterfinals with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Santiago Giraldo of Colombia on Thursday 

• Searching for thieves, Romanian police raid sewers

  Romanian police descended into Bucharest's sewers looking for suspects who broke into a Bucharest home and hid the loot underground. Police spokesman ... 

• Viktor Troicki advances to 2nd round in Bucharest

  Viktor Troicki advanced to the second round of the Nastase Tiriac Trophy by beating Marinko Matosevic of Australia 7-6 (5), 6-3 on Monday. 

• 2 US citizens found guilty in NY in Taliban case

  Two U.S. citizens have been found guilty in New York of conspiring to provide material support to the Taliban and conspiring to acquire anti-aircraft ... 

• Romania: thief steals car with kid in it

  The dad forgot his car keys. The thief forgot to check the rear view mirror. These two mistakes led to what appears to have been the unintended ... 

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  5 free things in Romania's capital, Bucharest

  It was founded by a shepherd, according to local legend, and was later nicknamed the Paris of the East. But Bucharest's idyllic roots and elegant ... 

• Hundreds of Romanian workers protest

  Hundreds of workers have protested outside government offices in Bucharest to demand public funds to help rescue their ailing petrochemical plant in ... 

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  NKorea warns embassies it can't guarantee safety

  North Korea has warned diplomats in Pyongyang that it can't guarantee the safety of embassies in the event of a conflict and suggested they may want ... 

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  Cyprus gains more time to achieve surplus

  Cyprus has been granted an extra year — until 2017 — to achieve a targeted budget surplus of 4 percent as part of bailout negotiations with ... 

• Filmmaker who rescued Romanian orphans is killed

  A documentary filmmaker known for helping rescue children from squalid Romanian orphanages in the early 1990s was fatally shot following an apparent ... 

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  3-year prison sentence for ex-Romanian diplomat

  A Romanian court on Wednesday handed a three-year prison sentence to a former Romanian diplomat for killing a man in a hit-and-run accident in ... 

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  Van Persie scores 2 in Dutch 4-0 win over Romania

  Robin van Persie scored twice and set up a third goal to lead the Netherlands to an easy 4-0 win over Romania in a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday. 

• Romania: Trafficking ring to US, Canada broken up

  Romanian anti-crime prosecutors have searched tourism agencies in the south of the country on suspicion they are a front for a ring that trafficks ... 

• Van der Vaart aims to make difference for Dutch

  Rafael van der Vaart says you need a mixture of experience and youth at the World Cup and the veteran midfielder can underscore his credentials to ... 

• Romania: Anti-missile interceptors to be deployed

  Romania's defense minister said Tuesday U.S. plans to deploy anti-missile interceptors in his country are going ahead and that Romania has an ... 

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  US reassures Poland over missile defense changes

  A U.S. plan to deploy missile defense interceptors to Poland and Romania has been a source of assurance to Washington's allies, who welcome further ...