
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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...
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 ...

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 ...

Missile plan changes may provide opening for talks
By adding 14 interceptors to a missile defense system based in Alaska and California, the U.S. is abandoning a critical part of a European system ...

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 ...

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 ...
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, ...

Lions, bears removed from gangster's property
A man known as Nutzu the Pawnbroker has been indicted for leading a fearsome criminal gang, but the public seems to be more ...
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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

APNewsBreak: Flaws found in US missile shield
Secret Defense Department studies cast doubt on whether a multibillion-dollar missile defense system planned for Europe can ever protect the U.S.

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 ...

IMF tells Romania to push on with reforms
The International Monetary Fund has called on the Romanian government to implement deeper structural reforms and to apply for more European Union ...

Lawyer: No proof to charge Romanians for art theft
A lawyer for three Romanians accused of stealing valuable paintings from a museum in the Netherlands insisted Friday there was insufficient evidence ...