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At the request of NATO, the United States has deployed a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery – a missile defence system built to intercept incoming ballistic missiles – to the Naval Support Facility Deveselu, Romania, to…

The Embassy of Sweden has denied the information launched publicly by several press sources, which claimed that a video with Laura Codruta Kövesi being awarded the Orden of the Polar Star has been deleted when she was dismissed. The…

Commander Ion Staiculescu, commanding the Operational Group 90 within the Otopeni Air Base 90, has died in his hotel room in France, the Romanian Ministry of Defence announced. He was there to attend the events to commemorate the Normandy…

Tarom flight Bucharest-Barcelona, which took off from Henri Coanda Airport at 8.49h, returned after about one hour, due to a crack in one of the aircraft’s windows, the company informs. “Tarom flight ROT 421 Bucharest-Barcelona on April…

Two more communist torturers have been revealed on Thursday, with the Institute for Investigation of the Communism Crimes (IICCMER) filing criminal complaints against those two at the Prosecutor’s Office. One of the disclosed torturers…

Former commander of the communist penitentiary in Râmnicu Sărat, Alexandru Vișinescu was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday in a final ruling given by the High Court of Cassation and Justice. He is charged with crimes against…

The Prosecutor’s Office upon the Romanian Supreme Court asked that the torturer Alexandru Visinescu should be sentenced to 25 years in prison for inhuman treatments. The Bucharest Court of Appeal tried Visinescu case on Tuesday. The new…

The Allied Joint Force Command (JFC) Naples will be dislocated at Cincu training area for a month, JFC Commander, U.S. Navy Admiral Mark Ferguson, currently in an official visit to Romania, informed on Tuesday. 1,000 members under his…

FM Aurescu shows solidarity with Denmark: The threat to use force against a NATO state is inadmissible. Controversial statement by Russian ambassador to Denmark targeting NATO anti-missile shield stirred prompt retorts of NATO, Romania and…