Peres honours Israeli troops in Romania death crash

2010-08-12T10:16:06Z

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...

Romanian uranium taken to secure site

2010-04-16T11:33:46Z

US transports 118 pounds of bomb-grade uranium from Romania to secure site in Russia

The last remaining bomb-grade uranium has been shipped out of Romania as part of a U.S.-Russian nuclear nonproliferation program, the Energy Department reported Tuesday.

Officials at the department's

CORRECTION Romania New Year Bear Ritual

2010-12-31T01:30:12Z

Girls pose with bear furs during New Year ritual dances in Comanesti, 300 kilometers north of Bucharest, Romania, Thursday Dec. 30 2010. In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, toured from house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil. In the current economic downturn situation in Romania, a Bucharest, Romania, Thursday Dec. 30 2010. In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, toured from house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil. In the current economic downturn situation in Romania, a Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. Southern Romania is affected by snowfalls with traffic problems reported on many roads. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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APTOPIX Romania Weather

2010-12-17T10:32:39Z

A husky puppy is transported in a child's push chair, on a snowy street downtown Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. Southern Romania is affected by snowfalls with traffic problems reported on many roads. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Romania Gypsy Sisters

2010-12-10T22:00:14Z

In this Nov. 25, 2010 picture, Narcisa Tranca, 22, holds one of her children in Udupu, Romania. Among Gypsies, or Roma, marrying young is a tradition born of the need to survive in an environment where young women were fair game for non-Roma men. Romanian Roma, in particular, turned to early marriage during 500 years of slavery that ended only in the 19th century. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Peres honours Israeli troops in Romania death crash

Romanian uranium taken to secure site

CORRECTION Romania New Year Bear Ritual

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Romania Gypsy Sisters