Romania’s pro-European parties agreed to form a majority government made up of groupings that were traditionally on opposite sides and shutting out far-right nationalists who made significant gains in the election on Dec. 1.

The European Union has sent TikTok an urgent request for more information about Romanian intelligence files suggesting that Moscow coordinated influencers on its platform to promote an election candidate who became the surprise front-runner in the nation’s presidential election.

Romanians are preparing to go to the polls in a parliamentary vote that will determine a new government and prime minister to lead the European Union and NATO member country.

A top Romanian court has asked the official electoral authority to recount and verify all of the ballots cast in the first round of the presidential election.

Two NATO members say that Russian drones have violated their airspace.

A court in Romania’s capital has rejected an appeal by prosecutors to jail divisive internet influencer Andrew Tate.

Romanian authorities have towed away luxury vehicles from the home of the divisive social media personality Andrew Tate.

A court in Romania’s capital has placed the divisive internet influencer Andrew Tate under house arrest for 30 days.

Masked police officers in Romania have carried out fresh raids at the home of internet influencer Andrew Tate, who is awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.

Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu has received the Olympic bronze medal that was first awarded to U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles but later revoked over a scoring controversy.

A court in Romania’s capital has ruled that social media influencer Andrew Tate can leave Romania but must remain within the European Union as he awaits trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.

NATO member Romania’s top defense body says the country will donate a Patriot missile system to neighboring Ukraine to help Kyiv in its war against Russia as Moscow’s forces continue to bombard civilian areas and energy infrastructure.

Romania’s president has withdrawn from the race to become NATO’s next secretary general.

Romania’s minister of culture says she will ask French luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton to acknowledge that a traditional Romanian blouse directly inspired items in one of its 2024 collections.

A new study has found that voters in 19 countries, including in three of the world’s largest democracies, are widely skeptical about whether their political elections are free and fair.

Romanian truck drivers and farmers are protesting again across the country again as negotiations with the coalition government over lower taxes, higher subsidies and other demands failed to reach any agreements.

The award-winning U.S. guitarist Al Di Meola has suffered a heart attack while performing in Romania’s capital.

A two-day summit in Romania has started in the country's capital bringing together 12 European Union member states situated between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic Seas.

A court in Romania’s capital has ruled to extend by another 30 days the house arrest of Andrew Tate, the divisive social media influencer who is charged with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.

Countries in southern Europe are preparing emergency measures at the start of a heat wave that is expected to push temperatures to 45 degrees Celsius (113F) in some areas over the next few days.

A Romanian court has extended by 30 days the house arrest of Andrew Tate, the divisive social media personality who was charged this week with rape, human trafficking, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.

Social media personality Andrew Tate has appeared in court in Romania's capital on charges of rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to exploit women.

Romanian prosecutors say social media personality Andrew Tate has been charged with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to exploit women.

Hungary has added honey and certain meat products to a list of food items it has temporarily banned from being imported from Ukraine in an effort to relieve market pressures on Hungarian farmers.

Romanian prosecutors have carried out forensic searches of electronic devices in the case of Andrew Tate, the divisive internet personality who is under house arrest on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, his lawyer says.

A Romanian official says the divisive internet personality Andrew Tate has won an appeal to replace his months of detention in jail with house arrest while under investigation for possible organized crime and human trafficking.

European Council President Charles Michel has pledged to continue supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression “for as long as necessary,” adding that EU leaders will “massively ramp up” ammunition production to send to the war-torn country.

The foreign ministers of France and the Netherlands paid an official visit to Romania on Friday where they visited a NATO battlegroup, and later signed an agreement to strengthen ties between the three countries amid Russia’s war in neighboring Ukraine.

Romanian prosecutors are continuing to search digital devices seized in the case of Andrew Tate, the influential internet personality who is detained in Romania on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking.

A Romanian official says a judge in Romania has granted prosecutors another request to extend the arrest of Andrew Tate by 30 days.

Romanian authorities have descended on a compound near Bucharest to tow away a fleet of luxury cars and other assets worth an estimated total of $3.9 million in the case investigating Andrew Tate.

Romania’s anti-organized crime agency has carried out additional house searches as part of its investigation into divisive social media influencer Andrew Tate.

A court in Romania’s capital Bucharest has ruled against an appeal by the divisive social media personality Andrew Tate who challenged asset seizures by prosecutors who are investigating him on charges of being part of an organized crime group and human trafficking, an official said Wednesday.

Romanian authorities say that divisive social media personality Andrew Tate has been arrested on charges of human trafficking and rape.

The leaders of Hungary, Romania, Georgia and Azerbaijan have finalized an agreement on an undersea electricity connector that could become a new power source for the European Union amid a crunch on energy supplies caused by the war in Ukraine.

The top civil servant at the Dutch foreign ministry has apologized after an independent investigation found widespread racism at the government department in the Netherlands and at its diplomatic outposts around the world.

U_S_ Secretary of State Antony Blinken is condemning Russia’s weekslong assault on Ukraine’s power grid as an attempt to “turn off the heat … so that civilians suffer.”.

NATO is struggling to find ways to help three countries shaken by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — Bosnia, Georgia and Moldova.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says war-torn Ukraine will one day become a member of the world’s largest security alliance.

NATO is returning to the scene of one of its most controversial decisions to repeat a vow that Ukraine will join the military alliance one day.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military organization stands ready to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia “for as long as it takes.”.

Several thousand protesters in Romania have joined an “anti-poverty march” in the capital of Bucharest to express dismay over the rising cost of living.

The World Health Organization says coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of all infections globally.

The European Union's drug agency says trafficking and drug use across the bloc are returning to pre-pandemic levels.

A British newspaper says Prince Charles has criticized the government’s plan to start deporting some asylum-seekers to Rwanda, calling it “appalling.”.

Nine NATO nations on the alliance’s eastern flank have held talks in Romania ahead of a key NATO summit later this month.

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Charles, Prince of Wales traveled to Romania’s capital on Wednesday to visit refugees, mostly women and children, that have found safety in the Eastern European country after fleeing Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Elena Trofimchuk fled Ukraine to Romania more than a month ago.

Police in the Romanian capital say a car carrying containers of flammable materials has crashed into the gate of the Russian Embassy, bursting into flames and killing the driver.

The United States plans to seek a suspension of Russia from its seat on the U.N.’s top human rights body amid increasing signs that Russian forces may have committed war crimes in Ukraine.

Romania has recorded a huge jump in COVID-19 infections, hitting a pandemic record of nearly 35,000 daily cases, almost doubling its previous record set only a day earlier.

The World Health Organization’s office for Europe says that children in the 5 to 14 age group now account for the highest rates of reported COVID-19 infection in the region.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday swore in a new coalition government led by a Liberal former army general and declared an end to a months-long political crisis in the Eastern European nation.

The World Health Organization says coronavirus deaths in Europe rose 5% in the last week, making it the only region in the world where COVID-19 deaths increased.

In much of Eastern Europe, coronavirus deaths are high and vaccination rates are low, but politicians have hesitated to impose the measures to curb the virus that experts are calling for.

The morgue in Romania’s main hospital has no space for the dead any more.

Romania has reported a record daily number of 591 COVID-19 deaths amid a persistently low vaccination rate.

Doctor Petruta Filip is working 100-hour weeks at a hospital in Romania’s capital Bucharest which, like hospitals throughout the country, is struggling under an onslaught of coronavirus patients requiring treatment amid worryingly low vaccination rates.

Romania has hit daily records of both coronavirus infections and deaths as the country grapples with an acute virus surge amid alarmingly low vaccination uptake.

Doctors in Romania's capital has issued an open letter titled “a cry of despair” as the country’s overwhelmed health care system copes with record coronavirus infections and deaths.

Romania's president has nominated centrist party leader Dacian Ciolos to be prime minister after a protracted political crisis culminated last week in the Liberal-led coalition government being ousted in a no-confidence vote.

Hungary has offered neighboring Romania help in caring for coronavirus patients as the country faces an alarming surge of COVID-19 cases and a shortage of intensive care beds.

Romanian Prime Minister Florin Citu has been ousted after a no-confidence motion in his government passed overwhelmingly, deepening an ongoing political crisis.

More than 5,000 far-right protesters have gathered in Romania’s capital of Bucharest to reject new pandemic measures coming soon as authorities seek to combat an alarming surge of COVID-19 infections.

The vaccination situation in Europe is a story of two regions.

Several thousand LGBT supporters took to the streets in the Romanian capital of Bucharest Saturday for a gay pride parade that resumed after a year’s pause due to the pandemic.

France is out of the European Championship and it was Kylian Mbappe that missed the penalty kick in the shootout.

Austria midfielder Christoph Baumgartner took off from the middle of the field, picked up some pace and dove head first onto the grass.

Romania’s president told U.S. counterpart Joe Biden that more NATO troops are needed on the alliance’s eastern flank given Russia military maneuvers that feel threatening to many people in the region.

The Romanian documentary film “Collective” is nominated for two Oscars.

Marchers have taken to the streets in the Romanian capital of Bucharest to protest restrictive measures to fight the spread of COVID-19 even as new daily infections and deaths rose in the European Union nation.

Zoea Baltag receives her second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, March 28, 2021. A 104-year-old Romanian woman received her second vaccine dose against COVID-19, becoming the oldest person in Romanias capital Bucharest to be fully inoculated against the disease. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)BUCHAREST – A 104-year-old Romanian woman has received her second COVID-19 vaccination shot, becoming the oldest person in Romania’s capital of Bucharest to be fully inoculated against the disease. Accompanied by relatives who helped her into Bucharest’s Children’s Palace, Zoea Baltag, born in 1916, welcomed her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Sunday and declared it the only way to combat the pandemic. Romania — a country of more than 19 million — has administered more than 2.8 million vaccine doses and seen 23,114 virus-related deaths.

Protesters from the police trade unions set off smoke grenade in the colors of the national flag during a rally in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, March 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)BUCHAREST – Hundreds of police protested Thursday in the Romanian capital of Bucharest over cutbacks and poor working conditions. A few days ago, the Europol union posted a photograph online that showed a pile of plaster debris that had fallen from a police station ceiling in the northern town of Botosani. Like other protesters, Ioan Canarau, vice president of Europol trade union, attended Thursday’s demonstration wearing thick metal leg cuffs. “We protest with chains on our feet because we feel tied by our hands and feet, and because we can’t offer Romanian citizens a good police service,” Canarau said.

Romanian doctors on Wednesday March 24, 2012, are working around the clock and having to decide who most deserves a bed in intensive care COVID-19 units. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)WARSAW – Poland recorded its highest daily number of new coronavirus infections Wednesday as hospitals buckle under a new surge. Maternity wards have been suddenly turned into COVID-19 wards, forcing women to change plans for where they will be giving birth. Facing a lack of qualified medical staff to treat the nearly 12,000 COVID-19 patients now hospitalized, Hungary has authorized medical students to come in to help. Some Hungarian hospitals have also sought volunteers to assist nurses and doctors in COVID-19 wards, giving training sessions to those without medical backgrounds.

Anti-vaccination protesters rally outside the parliament building in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, March 7, 2021. Some thousands of anti-vaccination protestors from across Romania converged outside the parliament building protesting against government pandemic control measures as authorities announced new restrictions amid a rise of COVID-19 infections. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)BUCHAREST – Around 3,000 anti-vaccination protesters from across Romania converged outside the parliament building in Bucharest on Sunday as authorities announced new restrictions amid a rise of COVID-19 infections. According to a government website, more than 1.7 million people in Romania have received a COVID-19 vaccine. Romania — a country of more than 19 million people — has recorded more than 828,000 COVID-19 infections, and 20,900 people have died.

(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)GENEVA – A senior World Health Organization official said Monday it was “premature” and “unrealistic” to think the pandemic might be stopped by the end of the year, but that the recent arrival of effective vaccines could at least help dramatically reduce hospitalizations and death. The world’s singular focus right now should be to keep transmission of COVID-19 as low as possible, said Dr. Michael Ryan, director of WHO's emergencies program. “If we’re smart, we can finish with the hospitalizations and the deaths and the tragedy associated with this pandemic” by the end of the year, he said at media briefing. Ryan said WHO was reassured by emerging data that many of the licensed vaccines appear to be helping curb the virus' explosive spread. Tedros also noted that for the first time in seven weeks, the number of COVID-19 cases increased last week, after six consecutive weeks of declining numbers.

Protesters waving flags march after a deadly fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. It was the third hospital fire in Romania in as many months. Not a single new hospital was built in Romania in 31 years," AUR co-president George Simion said, referring to the time since communism ended. AdSimion said the party and its supporters “want the resignation of those responsible,” naming Health Minister Vlad Voiculescu and Department of Emergency Situations head Raed Arafat. We need new hospitals.”Before the fire at the Matei Bals hospital, a November fire in a COVID-19 intensive care unit in north Romania killed 10 people and a fire psychiatric hospital in the same region killed one person in December.

An emergency paramedic leans against a wall outside the Matei Bals hospital compound in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. A fire early Friday at a key hospital in Bucharest that also treats COVID-19 patients killed four people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)BUCHAREST – A fire early Friday at a key hospital in Bucharest that also treats COVID-19 patients killed at least five people, authorities said. Some hospital staff could be seen later still wearing protective suits and face masks after rushing out. Read Arafat, the emergency department chief, said the four victims were all hospital patients.

A man adjusts images of Iancu Tucarman, during his funeral, at a Jewish cemetery in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Tucarman, one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in Romania, on was buried after dying from COVID-19 last week at the age of 98. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)BUCHAREST – Iancu Tucarman, one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in Romania, was buried Monday after dying from COVID-19 last week. Dozens gathered at Tucarman’s funeral in Bucharest to pay respects and mark a horrific legacy of World War II. Tucarman died on Jan. 8 after battling the coronavirus.

But it was also a public chance for them to urge Europe's 450 million people to get the shots amid continued vaccine and virus skepticism. The Los Olmos home suffered two confirmed COVID-19 deaths and another 11 deaths among residents with symptoms who were never tested. After he got his shot, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis declared Sunday “a great day for science and the European Union." Germany’s BioNTech has said it’s confident that its vaccine works against the new U.K. variant, but added that further studies are needed. The European Medicines Agency on Jan. 6 will consider approving another vaccine made by Moderna, which is already being used in the United States.

(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)BUCHAREST – Romania’s parliament on Wednesday approved a new liberal government and prime minister, keeping out of power a left-leaning populist party that won most votes at a parliamentary election earlier this month. Some 260 lawmakers in Romania’s 465-seat, two-chamber assembly on Wednesday voted for the new government, while 186 voted against. Former investment banker and finance minister Florin Citu become the new prime minister at a time when Romania is struggling against the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout. “I assure you that I will not deceive your trust," Citu told the parliament. Citu was backed by three more parties, giving him a majority in Romania’s two-chamber parliament.

Romanias center-right prime minister Ludovic Orban resigned Monday Dec. 7, 2020, after a general election in which voters delivered nominal victory to the left-leaning, populist opposition party. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, File)BUCHAREST – Romania’s center-right prime minister resigned Monday after a general election in which voters delivered nominal victory to the left-leaning, populist opposition party. With 95% of votes counted in Sunday’s election, Ludovic Orban’s National Liberals (PNL) have been defeated by the populist Social Democrat Party. Until then, Defense Minister Nicolae Ciuca will act as the prime minister, having been designated for the post by President Klaus Iohannis. Only 33% of potential Romanian voters went to the polls Sunday, compared with nearly 39.5% in 2016.

Voting started in Romania's legislative election expected to restore some measure of stability after five years of political and social turbulence with more than 18 million Romanians registered to vote for a new legislative body. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)BUCHAREST – Romanians voted Sunday in a legislative election that many hope will restore some stability in one of the poorest European Union nations after five years of political and social turmoil. More than 18 million Romanians are registered to vote for a new national parliament, but turnout was expected to be low because of voters’ fears about becoming infected with the coronavirus. To date, the EU’s seventh-most populous country has confirmed more than 500,000 cases of COVID-19 and more than 12,000 deaths. The Social Democrats have dominated Romania’s political life since the fall of communism in 1989, often in multi-party coalitions that at times included the PLN.

Portraits of Auschwitz death camp prisoners are displayed on a mesh as actresses of the Jewish State Theatre, perform during the premiere of the "The Beautiful Days of My Youth" play, based on the diary of Romanian Jewish Holocaust survivor Ana Novac, in Bucharest, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. Maia Morgenstern, head of the Jewish State Theater and a Romanian Jewish actress best known for playing Mary in Mel Gibson's controversial 2004 movie "The Passion of the Christ," described the play's staging in an interview with The Associated Press as an "all-feminine project." (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)BUCHAREST – The latest premiere at the Jewish State Theater in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, explores the horrors of the Holocaust via a survivor's memories of the Auschwitz and Plaszow concentration camps. Friday's debut of “The Beautiful Days of My Youth” by Romanian Jewish Holocaust survivor Ana Novac follows the National Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations on Oct. 9, the day when deportations of Romania’s Jews and Roma began in 1941. Some 280,000 Jews and 11,000 Roma were deported and killed under Romania's pro-Nazi regime during World War II.

A woman wearing a mask to protect against COVID-19 infection casts her vote in local elctions in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. Polls have opened in Romanias municipal election, which is being seen as a test of how the next general election on Dec. 6 will unfold for the countrys minority-led government. The PSD remains the strongest party in Romania’s parliament, despite losing its governing majority. Next, in the country’s presidential election last November, Dancila suffered a crushing defeat to the NLP’s former leader, Klaus Iohannis. The PSD leader Marcel Ciolacu all but conceded the election loss by its incumbent major of Bucharest, Gabriela Firea.

Forensic worker carry a body from a hotel downtown Bucharest, Romania, Friday, June 19, 2020. Gholamreza Mansouri, a former judge from Iran sought by his country to face corruption charges has died in unusual circumstances, Romanian media reported. Romanian police said only that a man had fallen from a high floor at a hotel in Bucharest, the Romanian capital, and was found dead. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)BUCHAREST A former judge from Iran sought by his country to face corruption charges died Friday after a fall in a hotel, Romanian media reported Friday. ___Associated Press writer David Rising in Berlin, and Andreea Alexandru in Bucharest, contributed to this report.

A protester stands outside the presidential palace in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, June 18, 2020, during a rally against a law banning the teaching of gender studies. Dozens of protesters gathered outside Bucharest's Cotroceni Presidential Palace, to express their opposition to a law banning the teaching of gender studies in the country's schools and universities and call on President Klaus Iohannis to reject signing the bill and send it back to parliament. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)BUCHAREST Dozens of protesters gathered Thursday in Romania's capital to express their opposition to a law banning the teaching of gender studies in the countrys schools and universities. Neighboring Hungary passed similar legislation in 2018, removing accreditation and funding for gender studies at the university level. Hungary recently also banned transgender people from changing their gender on official documents.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, right, speaks next to Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban, after exit polls results indicate him as the leader of the presidential race, with up to 40 percent of the votes in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019. An election runoff will take place on Nov. 24. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)BUCHAREST Romanian election authorities say President Klaus Iohannis will face Viorica Dancila, the recently ousted former prime minister, in the Nov. 24 presidential runoff. The election has been overshadowed by Romania's political crisis, which recently saw a fourth prime minister take office in less than three years. Dancila's Social Democratic government lost a no-confidence vote in October and was replaced last week by a minority government led by Prime Minister Ludovic Orban's National Liberal Party.

A man takes photos as a woman casts her vote in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019. Voting got underway in Romania's presidential election after a lackluster campaign overshadowed by a political crisis which saw a minority government installed just a few days ago. Official results are not expected before Monday though exit polls by two local pollsters showed very similar outcomes. Iohannis says the exit polls show that "millions of Romanians in the country and abroad voted for our project, for a normal Romania." Both exit polls had Dan Barna, of the center-right Save Romania Union, receiving slightly more than 16% of the votes.

FILE- In this Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, file picture, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis speaks during the National Council of the Liberal Party in Bucharest, Romania. Romania will hold presidential elections on Nov. 10. Polls show incumbent center-right President Klaus Iohannis ahead with around 40%, followed by the center-left candidate Viorica Dancila, until last month Romania's prime minister, at 15-22%. Iohannis is a former leader of the National Liberal Party, which on Monday formed a minority government led by Prime Minister Ludovic Orban. If no candidate wins more than 50% on Sunday, there will be a second round of voting on Nov. 24.