Via the Romanian Times: Health official is first person to get swine flu vaccine. Excerpt:Health Ministry state secretary Adrian Streinu-Cercel has become the first person in Romania to be vaccinated against swine flu. Streinu-Cercel said as he received the vaccination...
Romanian President Traian Basescu has found himself in the middle of a huge scandal at night of November 26. The scandal will most likely affect the results of the presidential runoff election in Romania on December 6.TV viewers all across the small nation in Eastern Europe could see their president attacking a young man during a pre-election rally. The president hit the young man in the face
Bucharest - A Bucharest court on Friday said Romania's naming of Vasile Blaga as interior minister was invalid because of procedural flaws. Basescu named former Blaga transitional interior minister on October 1 after removing Dan Nica of the Socialis...
Over the last few days I've been following this Iraq Enquiry. It's worrying in one sense. Over the last few decades you can scarcely get through a week (if you watch the news) without hearing an article mentioning the UK/US "Special Relationship". Well it seems it might be unravelling. I guess it wouldn't be that surprising in a way. Relations between our two countries have not always been...
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Tom Clancy's HAWX (2009) April 2, 2008 - Ubisoft and Tom Clancy games are like the peanut butter and chocolate of the games industry; the two go together naturally. Gamers who are already familiar with the Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six series have a new Tom Clancy game to consider this fall. Tom Clancy's HAWX (that's short for High-Altitude Warfare...X?) is flying onto PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this fall....
I just find it most amusing with Arsene Wenger criticises FIFA for allowing Chelsea to appeal their transfer ban thereby giving the Blues the opportunity to buy players in the January window. Given that UEFA dropped 'simulation' charges against Eduardo, which received widespread mocking, after Arsenal appealed, it ill behoves Wenger so soon to get on his moral high horse. After all, it was a clear...
SEMI Tadulala is set to pen a deal with Gloucester by virtue of having been selected to start on the wing for the Flying Fijians against Romania tomorrow morning.
Twenty-five countries out of 34 on the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted to censure Iran's secret nuclear program. White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said the vote was "overwhelming." What he did not say is what the heck the censure means. That's because it likely means nothing. IAEA - Vienna For the first time Russia and China voted for the censure, along...
There are in Europe a number of locations, often wetlands, that seem to act as conduits for bird migration, as well offering superb breeding and wintering habitats. I have already described some of the most famous that I have visited, including the Camargue (Rhone Delta in France); the Danube Delta in Romania; The Coto Doñana (Gualdaquivir Delta) in Andalusia, Spain; and Neusiedlersee on the...
Khanty Mansiysk (Russia): The world’s highest-rated woman player ever, Judit Polgar of Hungary made it to the third round of the World Chess Cup at the expense of Grandmaster Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania in the second set of ...
Photo courtesy of TIFF Cinematheque. Among dedicated world cinema buffs, Argentina has been a locale of interest for some time. Though Pedro Costa’s Portugal and Corneliu Porumboiu’s Romania may be nipping at its heels, Argentina remains one of the most vibrant hubs of international film production, the result of work by filmmakers such as Lisandro Alonso, Daniel Burman, and others loosely...
The Romanian president, Traian Basescu, who is campaigning for re-election, has denied hitting a 10-year-old boy during a 2004 campaign rally. The boy, now 15, said Basescu hit him in the face during a rally before his election to the presidency. Footage of the alleged incident was broadcast on television . Basescu denied ever hitting a child. He said the video was part of a dirty campaign in the...
As we all live in the present, it is very hard to fully assess the future implications of decisions supported or made by political and business leaders. An extraordinary game of geo-strategy is under way to lock in long-term agreements, notably in the energy sector. At a global level, the transit routes of future oil & gas pipelines become the object of a power struggle involving not only the suppliers...