Romanian citizens are being called to the polls to elect the future president, for a mandate of five years on Sunday (Nov. 24, 2024) and on 8 Dec. 2024 if no candidate receives an absolute majority of the vote and all the members of Parliament (MPs and senators) on Dec. 1, 2024. For the first time since 2004, the two elections will
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US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, 78, early Wednesday (Nov. 6) thanked Americans for “being elected 47th president.” According to Fox News Decision Desk projections, Trump ensured victory after defeating his Democratic rival Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s presidential election. With only a few electoral votes remaining to officially confirm the win, Trump’s address in Florida was celebrated by a crowd
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Romania’s government is set to invest approximately RON 1.44 billion (€290 million), primarily sourced from the European Union budget, to revamp the Black Sea Port of Constanta, the country’s maritime gateway, amid surging traffic demands. The strategic investment includes infrastructure enhancements, such as rehabilitation of existing roads, water and sewerage infrastructure, and development of electricity distribution. The initial phase of the investment includes around €145
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A growing list of foreign Governments are evacuating their diplomatic personnel and nationals from war-ravaged Sudan as fighting has entered into the second week. The United States, Canada, U.K., France, Germany, Italy and Spain have been evacuating diplomats and other nationals from the north-eastern African country in response to the deteriorating security situation there. A vicious power struggle between the Sudanese army
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Brazil announced on Friday (April 7) its official return to the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), from which it formally withdrew in April 2019. “As Brazil resumes its main international alliances, it will once again join the Union of South American Nations,” the country’s foreign ministry said in a statement. It added that the measure will take effect on May 6
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Britain has secured an agreement to join CPTPP and will be the first new nation to join the Indo-Pacific trade bloc since it was set up in 2018, Politico reported on Wednesday (March 29). Joining the bloc would be the culmination of years of diplomatic and political efforts and will supplement existing bilateral trade deals Britain has with several of the member
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Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has called on the government to stop the controversial judicial reform legislation that has provoked mass protests across the country. “At this time, we must stop the process and sit down to talk,” Gallant who is a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s own right-wing Likud party said. “I am committed to Likud values … and placing the
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Chinese president Xi Jinping is on a state visit to Russia from March 20 through 22, his first international trip since being re-elected. The Chinese leader had a tete-a-tete informal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (March 20), which lasted for 4.5 hours, according to Russian state media. Putin and Xi greeted one another as “dear friend” when they met in
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday (Dec. 30) he was expecting Chinese President Xi Jinping to make a state visit to Moscow in 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met remotely via video link Friday (Dec. 30). Putin invited Xi to pay a state visit to Russia in spring 2023, saying that the meeting would become the
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The foreign ministers of the 30 NATO allies gather for two days (Nov. 29-30) at the Palace of the Parliament in the Romanian capital Bucharest, addressing ways to step up support for Ukraine. The Bucharest meeting is symbolic for one obvious reason: It takes place in the site of a 2008 summit at which Ukraine and Georgia were both promised they would
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