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Youngster Popovici eases to Euro 200m freestyle gold

Rome (AFP) - Romania's David Popovici swam the third quickest time in history to claim the men's 200m freestyle gold at the European Championships on Monday in Rome.

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Fiery Halep to Face Surging Haddad Maia in Canadian Open Final

Simona Halep dug deep to beat Jessica Pegula 2-6 6-3 6-4 to punch her ticket to Sunday's Canadian Open final where she will face Beatriz Haddad Maia after the Brazilian toppled Karolina Pliskova for her latest win over a marquee player. Two-time tournament champion Halep got off to a sluggish…

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Romanian teenager David Popovici breaks 13-year-old world record for men's 100m freestyle at European titles

A swimming world record that has stood since the days of the 'super suits' has finally gone, with a 17-year-old Romanian swimmer setting a new mark for the blue riband event, the 100m freestyle, in Rome.

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Popovici in spotlight at European Swimming Championships

Rome (AFP) - At just 17 years old, Romanian swimmer David Popovici has emerged as the new star of the pool.

AFP

Romanian Black Sea port to keep shipping Ukrainian grain, seeks EU funding

At the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta dockers have worked for months to ship out Ukrainian grain in addition to their usual loads from Romania and its land-locked neighbours.

Reuters

Turkey Expects Daily Departures from Ukraine after First Grain Ship Sails

Turkey expects roughly one grain ship to leave Ukrainian ports each day as long as an agreement that ensures safe passage holds, a senior Turkish official said on Tuesday after the first wartime vessel safely departed Odesa on Monday. The first ship, Razoni, carrying 26,527 tons of corn to Lebanon,…

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A bear in the backyard – a photo essay

In one of Europe’s last remaining wildernesses, Romania’s brown bears and the local population share an uneasy coexistence

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Romania defuses drifting mine off Black Sea coast

Romania's military carried out late on Sunday a controlled explosion of a naval mine that had drifted close to the country's Black Sea shore, the defence ministry said.

Reuters

Cult cricket hero Pavel Florin joins Big Bash League heavyweights in draft nomination

The Romanian cricketer with a distinctive bowling action that saw him rise to prominence and earn cult status has thrown his hat into the ring for this year’s BBL

The Guardian - AU

Romanian magistrates: Proposed judicial changes hurt anti-graft effort

Romanian judges and prosecutors on Tuesday criticised proposed changes to judicial legislation they said would weaken the fight against graft in one of the European Union's most corrupt states.

Reuters

'God, give us rain' - Romanian monastery prays for end to drought

Iulia Coleasa, an 81-year-old who relies on her small plot for food, travelled 15 km in searing heat to a monastery in southern Romania on Sunday to join a service praying for rain.

Reuters

Orban Urges New EU Strategy on Ukraine, Says Sanctions Have Failed

The European Union needs a new strategy on the war in Ukraine as sanctions against Moscow have not worked, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday. "A new strategy is needed which should focus peace talks and drafting a good peace proposal ... instead of winning the war," Orban…

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Ukrainian family set for Perthshire forced to apply for full refugee status in Romania due to long visa delays

Delays to their UK visa application could have seen Iryna Vekhtieva, and her sons Filip and Timofii, deported back to the war-torn nation

Daily Record

How US dollars put anti-abortion groups at the heart of Romanian healthcare

Buoyed by dollars and evangelical zeal, a growing number of ‘pregnancy crisis centres’ threaten to return the country to the deadly days of Ceaușescu’s ban

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Shamrock Rovers fan held in Bulgaria over alleged 'fake passport'

The border authorities prevented him from crossing into Romania for two hours before reportedly arresting him

Reuters

Mexican beauty queen, Romanian-Dutch man arrested after chase across Europe over $1.7 million wine theft

A former Mexican beauty queen and a Romanian-Dutch accomplice have been arrested in Croatia over the theft of $1.7 million worth of prestige bottles of wine in Spain after a nine-month chase across Europe, police said on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Predator guilty of murdering vulnerable young woman in shipping container

Romanian Necolai Paizan, 64, hit his petite victim Agnes Dora Akom at least 20 times over the head with a jigsaw power tool.

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Two-Thirds of Ukraine Refugees Plan to Stay Put for Now, Says UN

Around two-thirds of refugees from Ukraine expect to stay in their host countries until hostilities subside and the security situation improves after Russia's invasion, a survey by the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has found. Most of the refugees from Ukraine, mainly women and children, hope to return home eventually,…

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Family at risk of deportation back to Ukraine face fresh hurdle in quest to reach sanctuary in Perthshire

Iryna and her sons, who are sleeping in a church in Romania, must travel nearly 250km to supply further documents in their UK visa bid

Reuters

Thousands march in Bucharest LGBTQ pride parade

Thousands of Romanians joined an LGBTQ pride march in Bucharest on Saturday ahead of planned legislation that could potentially endanger future parades and fuel discrimination.

Daily Record

Ukrainian family trying to relocate to Perthshire at risk of deportation back to war-torn country

Martin and Rebekah Hodson of Auchterarder are in touch with Iryna Vekhtieva, and sons Filip and Timofii, who have fled the shelling in Mykolaiv and are currently sleeping in a church in Romania

Belfast Live

MV E Evangelia: History of the cargo ship built in Belfast and shipwrecked in Romania

Its maiden voyage was in 1942

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Ukraine: survey shows British people, and especially Tory voters, feel very differently about some refugees than others

As of late May, in the three months since Russia invaded Ukraine, 6.8 million refugees had fled the war into other countries. The majority, some 3.6 million people, headed to Poland, while another million went to Romania. European Union nations and others began offering visa waivers and other schemes to…

Reuters

Foreign firefighters arrive in Greece for summer wildfire season

Several dozen Romanian and Bulgarian firefighters took up their posts in Greece on Saturday, the first members of a European force being deployed to the country to provide backup in case of major wildfires during the summer.

The Conversation

Ukraine: US deploys more troops in eastern Europe -- here's how it compares with the cold war

US president Joe Biden is beefing up the US military presence in eastern Europe as a reaction to the Ukraine war. Biden plans to redeploy troops from Germany to Poland and Romania and send more destroyers to strengthen Nato’s naval presence on its southern flank in the coming months, he…

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