Bucharest

A Romanian firefighter wipes his face while leaving the site of a blaze after several explosions at a fueling station that provides LPG (liquefied petroleum gas), in Crevedia, Romania.

4 min

Europe

Romania: Gas station double blast kills two, injures 56

It's not immediately clear what caused the blasts in Crevedia, which forced evacuations in the area

Read time: 4 min.

Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in Jerusalem.

3 min

Diplomacy

Israel’s FM talks Iran, relations with Bulgaria, Romania counterparts

Israel's Eli Cohen asks Bulgarian counterpart to support Jerusalem in calling on the EU to declare Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terror group

Read time: 3 min.

Illustration - Des soldats de l'armée roumaine alliée de l'Allemagne nazie en 1941

3 min

Europe

Bucharest city council refuses to remove the bust of a pro-Nazi minister

Mircea Vulcanescu was sentenced to 8 years in prison in 1946 for collaborating with Nazi Germany

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Israel's Minister for Social Equality Meirav Cohen at the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) in Jerusalem on July 4, 2021.

2 min

Israel

Romania to pay compensation to Holocaust survivors in Israel

Romania's fascist regime during WWII was complicit in Nazi genocide of Jews

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Romanian police forces secure the area around the Russian Embassy to Romania in Bucharest, Romania, on April 6, 2022, after a man rammed his car into the gates of the diplomatic mission.

2 min

War in Ukraine

Driver dies after ramming Russia’s embassy in Romania with car

Russia suggests that the driver was potentially motivated to ram the gate by antiwar sentiments

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Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with Romania's Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu in Bucharest, Romania, on March 13, 2022.

3 min

Diplomacy

Israel: FM Lapid talks Ukraine war with Romanian counterpart

'Israel will do all it can to help reach a peaceful solution'

Read time: 3 min.