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Most Romanians do not trust AI without human intervention, survey shows
Roughly 70% of Romanians are “very” or “moderately” concerned about how AI accesses and uses their data, according to the latest survey conducted by RoCoach in partnership with Novel Research between May and June 2025. Distrust in automated...

Soccer-Serie A managerial merry-go-round continues after Pisa and Lecce name new coaches
(Reuters) -The Serie A managerial merry-go-round shows no sign of stopping, with at least 12 of the league's 20 teams set to have new coaches for the upcoming season following appointments at Pisa and Lecce on Thursday. Lecce, who narrowly avoided...

Explore Romanian Universities This Weekend — Educational Fair in Moldova’s Major Cities
IPN reports that high school students from Moldova planning to study in Romania can attend the Romanian University Fair scheduled for July 3–6. This year, the university fair will travel to Chisinau, Ungheni, Balti, and Causeni. Participants will...

Armenian Street Festival to take place at Bucharest’s Botanical Garden in August
The Armenian Street Festival returns for a 9th edition between August 1 and 3, 2025, in the “Dimitrie Brândză” Botanical Garden in Bucharest. The festival brings into focus the living heritage of the Armenian community in Romania and the diaspora....

M&A market in Romania registered transactions worth EUR 2.7 bln in first half of 2025
The Romanian mergers and acquisitions market registered a total of 122 announced transactions in the first half of 2025, with a value exceeding EUR 2.7 billion, marking a slight increase of 6% in volume and 4% in value compared to the same period...

Testimony Of Ukrainian POW: Mass Flight Of Draft-Eligible Men To Romania
Support SouthFront Click to see the full-size image Ukrainian prisoner of war Igor Khaschevsky served in the Mukachevo border guard unit in Ukraine’s Transcarpathian region on the border with Romania from 2023 to March 2025. After the Kiev regime...

The present and future of social orphans in Kazakhstan
In recent years, there have been several paper or legislative initiatives in the field of protecting social orphans, but in practice, no significant changes have occurred, says Aigerim Mussabalinova, Ph.D., a human rights defender of children and...

Romania to Receive 18 Dutch F-16 Jets for NATO Training Hub
The Netherlands has pledged to donate 18 F-16 fighter jets to Romania by the close of 2025 for the symbolic price of just one euro. Romanian Defense Minister Ionuț Moșteanu made the announcement on June 25 at a press conference in The Hague, held...

Tourist is dragged into a ravine and killed by bear after posing for selfie with its cub in Romania
A motorcyclist was mauled to death by a bear in Romania on Thursday after posing for a selfie with its cub. Italian tourist Omar Farang Zin, 49, was riding on his motorbike along the Carpathian Mountains in the central region of Arges when a...

Keys, Pegula Experience Mixed Fates in Wimbledon First Round
WIMBLEDON, England — American tennis players Madison Keys and Jessica Pegula had contrasting experiences in the first round of Wimbledon on Monday and Tuesday. Keys secured a hard-fought victory, while Pegula faced an early exit. On Monday, Keys,...

Djedovic Handanovic: Serbia preparing gas interconnector projects with Romania, N Macedonia
BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic said on Friday projects to build gas interconnectors with Romania and North Macedonia were under preparation and noted that having alternative oil and gas supply routes...

Hungarikum Days Celebrate Culture and Gastronomy in Transylvania
This weekend, between July 4 and 6, the 16th Hungarikum Days will be held in Sibiu (Nagyszeben, Romania), at the ASTRA Open-air Museum. In this Transylvanian city, home to a Hungarian diaspora community, Hungarian folk culture, traditions, and...

Rezolv Energy and SCION Launch Nature and CleanTech Accelerator for Early-Stage Ventures in Bulgaria and Romania
Rezolv Energy and SCION launched the SCION Accelerator, a 10-week programme to support early-stage teams working at the intersection of ecology, science and scalable technology in Bulgaria and Romania. The initiative is among the first to be...

Romanian president Nicușor Dan meets UK PM Keir Starmer at NATO summit
Romanian president Nicușor Dan met with UK prime minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday morning, June 25, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in The Hague. The meeting brought together Romania’s full official delegation, including presidential...

Former prime minister facing criminal complaint for state of Romanian economy, budget deficit
Vlad Gheorghe, formerly a member of the reformist opposition party Save Romania Union (USR) and now leader of extra-parliamentary opposition party DREPT, announced on Thursday, July 3, that he has filed a criminal complaint against former prime...

Northrop, ROMARM to Co-Produce Ground-Based Radar for Romania
Northrop Grumman and Romanian state-owned defense company ROMARM have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly produce a ground-based radar for the Romanian Air Force. The G/ATOR (Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar) is expected to deliver...

Orange France, Samsung establish vRAN, Open RAN first pilot
After “rigorous” lab and field tests, Samsung and Orange France have completed a pilot test marking the first 4G and 5G calls on Orange France’s virtualised radio access network (vRAN) and Open RAN network around the Lyons region in southwestern...

Different Beauty: Portraits from Donbas in David Těšínský’s Bucharest exhibition
Different Beauty, a recently opened exhibition of works by Czech photographer David Těšínský, offers a glimpse into everyday life in the war-torn region of Donbas in 2017. The photos were taken within the span of only a few days, as Těšínský...

Russians absent from world top 10 for first time since official lists began
It would have been inconceivable in the glory days of the Soviet chess empire. For the first time since 1971 when Fide, the world chess body, began publishing its rating lists – then annually and now monthly – there are no Russians ranked in the...

Deliciously nourishing: 24 of the world’s best salads
(CNN) – The dish known as salad is said to date back to the ancient Roman habit of dipping romaine lettuce in salt – “herbe salata” means “salted leaves.” Now, centuries after the concept originated in Ancient Rome, salads may conjure for some an...