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Romania

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  Former Romanian PM is freed from prison

  A former Romanian prime minister who shot himself in the neck when police came to bring him to prison was freed Monday after serving one-third of his ... 

• US canceling key part of European missile defense

  The Obama administration announced Friday that it is abandoning a key part of its European missile defense plan: an interceptor that had been strongly ... 

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  Ethnic Hungarians in Romania mark national day

  Thousands of ethnic Hungarians paraded in Romania on Friday to celebrate the Hungarian national holiday, and some expressed concern that their ... 

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  Sneijder back in Netherlands squad after 6 months

  Playmaker Wesley Sneijder returned to the Netherlands squad Friday after a six-month absence for the World Cup qualifiers against Estonia and Romania. 

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  AP Interview: Romanian president blasts corruption

  Romania risks always being treated like an outsider in Europe unless it tackles issues such as government corruption, the Eastern European nation's ... 

• Romania minister: We deserve to join Schengen

  Romania's foreign minister has warned Europe's leaders that excluding his country from the group of nations that allow their citizens to travel ... 

• Dutch police arrest Romanian in major art heist

  Dutch police say they have arrested a 19-year-old Romanian woman in connection with a major art heist from the Kunsthal gallery in Rotterdam, ... 

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  Balkan neighbors observe spring rite

  Millions of Bulgarians and Romanians are observing a centuries-old regional custom, handing out spring charms to loved ones as they do every March 1. 

• Romania's top court sends 2 ex-ministers to jail

  Romania's highest court has upheld a three-year prison sentence for two former agriculture ministers convicted of bribery and influence peddling. 

• Undeclared horse meat found in Czech Republic

  The Czech Republic became the latest country to detect horse meat in food products labeled as beef in a widening European food labeling scandal, ... 

• Romania: alleged illegal trafficking of human eggs

  Police questioned 30 people on Tuesday and searched the homes of six employees of a private fertility clinic who are suspected of illegally ... 

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  Romanian movie 'Child's Pose' wins at Berlin fest

  A Romanian drama that centers on a woman's effort to cover up her son's responsibility for an accident in which a boy is fatally injured won the ... 

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  Horsemeat: French company blamed, UK arrests

  The price, smell and color should have been clear tipoffs something was wrong with shipments of horsemeat that were fraudulently labeled as beef, ... 

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  Rescuer defends Romania's horses from slaughter

  The name of his farm translates roughly as "Saving Horses from Wolves." But for Simion Craciun, the real predators are from the nearby slaughterhouse. 

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  Horsemeat scandal exposes complex food chain

  First, there was "pink slime." Then horsemeat. Most recently? "Desinewed meat." Recent revelations that such products have reached dinner tables, ... 

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  UK food agency raids abattoir in horsemeat scandal

  British authorities on Tuesday raided a slaughterhouse and a meat processing company suspected of selling horsemeat labeled as beef for kebabs and ... 

• Court rules that ex Romanian ex-PM can be released

  A court has ruled that a former Romanian prime minister who shot himself in the neck as police came to pick him up to serve a two-year prison sentence ... 

• Romania produced 6,300 tons of horsemeat last year

  Romanian food safety officials say the country produced 6,300 tons of horse, mule and donkey meat last year, and that it was correctly labeled when ... 

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  Romania: Slaughterhouses did not commit fraud

  A maze of trading between meat wholesalers has made it increasingly difficult to trace the origins of food — enabling horsemeat disguised as beef to ... 

• France hunting fraudsters in horsemeat scandal

  Europe's horsemeat scandal is spreading and threatening cross-border tensions, as France says Romanian butchers and Dutch and Cypriot traders were ... 

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  APNewsBreak: Flaws found in US missile shield

  Secret Defense Department studies cast doubt on whether a multibillion-dollar missile defense system planned for Europe will ever be able to protect ... 

• China honors Romania's former Securitate Chief

  China's embassy in Bucharest has ruffled feathers by honoring the last chief of Romania's much-loathed, communist-era secret police. Iulian Vlad, the ... 

• Romanian president rejects anti-corruption law

  Romania's president has vetoed legislation that critics said would make it harder to prosecute lawmakers accused of corruption. President Traian ... 

• Romanian air carrier flights in Italy suspended

  The owner of a Romanian air carrier says the company's flights have been suspended in Italy after an airliner ended up off the runway while landing ... 

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  Romanians, Bulgarians answer UK immigration fears

  The scaremongering is all over British tabloids: Romanians and Bulgarians (Pickpockets! Scam artists! Scroungers!) flooding into the UK by the ...