by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 9, 2017 | World
Romania’s coastguard stopped two vessels in the Black Sea carrying over 200 migrants, border police said Saturday. Authorities have opened an investigation to determine where the boat came from, Ionela Pasat, coastguard spokeswoman in the Black Sea city of...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 28, 2016 | World
Bucharest- Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis has blocked a proposal by the leftist party that won elections this month to appoint Sevil Shhaideh, the EU country’s first female and first Muslim prime minister, a move that could spark a political crisis....
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 22, 2016 | World
Bucharest- Romania’s Social Democratic Party has nominated former regional development minister Sevil Shhaideh to be the next prime minister. Shhaideh, 52, would be the first the first Muslim prime minister in Romania– Muslims represent only 0.3% of Romanian...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 26, 2016 | World
Britain announced on Wednesday that it will be sending fighter jets to Romania in 2017 and that the United States made promises on deploying troops, tanks and artillery to Poland in NATO’s biggest military build-up on Russia’s borders since the Cold War....
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 11, 2016 | Sports
Hosts France enjoyed a stunning start to Euro 2016 as Dimitri Payet’s superb last-gasp strike bailed out Les Bleus in a 2-1 victory over Romania at the Stade de France on a peaceful night in the capital on Friday. The least to be said is that Payet was France’s...
