BUCHAREST (AFP) - (AFP) - Romania said Friday it had yet to decide on its vote on a unilateral Palestinian bid for statehood in September, two days after telling Israeli's Benjamin Netanyahu it opposed any unilateral solution.
"We are analyzing the forms and implications of the planned Palestinian bid," the foreign ministry said.
"As this bid has not been submitted yet, all specula [...]
TIMISOARA, Romania (AFP) - A Libyan woman who accused soldiers loyal to strongman Moamer Kadhafi of raping her, has arrived at a refugee centre in western Romania, a UN official said Tuesday.
"The UNHCR successfully evacuated Iman al-Obeidi from Libya on Sunday," UN High Commissioner for Refugees representative in Romania, Machiel Salomons, told AFP.
"She was accompanied by UNHCR s [...]
BUCHAREST (AFP) - The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization, on Friday criticized Israeli President Shimon Peres who paid tribute to Romania for "rescuing 400,000 Jews" during World War II.
The Jerusalem-based center voiced its "surprise and strong disappointment" at Peres who failed to mention "the central role played by the regime of Romanian dictator Marshal Ion [...]
BUCHAREST (AFP) - Israeli President Shimon Peres paid tribute Wednesday to six of his country's soldiers who were killed in helicopter crash in Romania as candles were lit in their memory at Bucharest's main synagogue.
"Air force soldiers are good soldiers. They are extraordinary human beings," Peres said during a memorial service attended by members of Romania's Jewish community and seni [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli President Shimon Peres left for Romania on Wednesday to attend a memorial service for six Israeli soldiers and a Romanian killed in a helicopter crash last month.
Peres' office said he would first stop in Bulgaria for talks with President Georgi Parvanov and Prime Minister Boyko Borrisov then fly on Wednesday evening to Romania, where he would become the first [...]
BUCHAREST (AFP) - There were no survivors among the six Israeli and one Romanian soldiers on board an Israeli helicopter that crashed Monday in central Romania, the defence ministry said on Tuesday.
"Search and rescue teams have found no survivors of Monday's aircrash," the ministry said in a press release.
"Defence Minister Gabriel Oprea expresses his deep regret over the death of the s [...]
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