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The Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, even though US President Donald Trump was once the bookies' favorite. The committee's explanation for the decision was...

Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas agreed early on the first phase of a US-brokered ceasefire plan that would see the release of all hostages in Gaza, an Israeli withdrawal to an agreed-upon point and the release of some Palestinian...

A Zambian ritual mask, a pendant from the ancient city of Palmyra and a painting by Swedish artist Anders Zorn are among the exhibits in the new virtual museum of looted or stolen objects launched by UNESCO. The project aims to raise awareness of...

For the sustainability of public debt, given that the budget deficit reached 9.3% of Gross Domestic Product last year, a massive fiscal adjustment is necessary, i.e. a drastic reduction in public spending and better collection of revenues to the...

The second round of the presidential election in Poland ended with a major surprise. Nationalist candidate Karol Nawrocki obtained 50.89% of the vote, narrowly beating liberal Rafa³ Trzaskowski, who was credited with 49.11%, informs Politico. The...

Although he officially lost the presidential elections of May 18, 2025 - a fact confirmed yesterday by the unanimous decision of the judges of the Constitutional Court of Romania who validated the election of Nicuşor Dan as president of the...

The statements of the AUR leader, George Simion, have sparked a real storm on the local political scene. The President of the Timiş County Council and of the Timiş PSD, Alfred Simonis, says that George Simion is being manipulated by the Kremlin:...

The spokesman for Călin Georgescu, who George Simion has become, directly urges the division of the people and proceeds to obvious threats: "we will find you in a snake hole too".

World football is facing a situation that is rekindling the discussion about sports performance and the pursuit of money - the complicated negotiations between the Brazilian Confederation and coach Carlo Ancelotti. The Italian coach's...

Bucharest is once again becoming the world chess capital! Garry Kasparov, considered the greatest chess player of all time, returns to Romania to participate in the official opening ceremony of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025, on May 6,...

Otokar, the defense systems division of Turkey's largest conglomerate, Koc Group, announced on Friday that it has signed a joint venture agreement with one of the most important defense companies in our country, Automecanica SA Mediaş. The...

This spring, from May 5 to 17, the capital will once again become the center of the international chess universe. According to the tournament organizers, the Romanian leg of the prestigious Grand Chess Tour will bring to the public, 10 of the...

The Romanian Cycling Tour was launched in a festive setting at the Bucharest Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Cătălin Sprînceană, president of the Romanian Cycling Federation, admitted that he has high expectations for the current edition. Over...

The 2025 Eurovision Song Contest promises a series of surprises and innovative ideas, according to organizers in Basel, the Swiss city that will host the event. With just two months to go before the start of the competition, preparations are in...

Latin American literature is experiencing a second youth through successful film adaptations and series on streaming platforms, several decades after it conquered readers around the world. Films based on classic novels such as One Century of...

In the midst of a period of celebrating love, in the old, Romanian way, but also in the new, American way, local football is shaken by two divorces that seemed impossible quite a while ago.

The presence of Asian workers on construction sites, in traffic on scooters and bicycles, in restaurant kitchens and in many other places has become a habit. Discreet, they go about their business and generally work seriously. We know very little...

The artistic director of the George Enescu International Festival, maestro Cristian Măcelaru, proposes for the concert series at the Palace Hall 27 events supported by 16 prestigious orchestras from Romania and around the world, in an edition...

The Romanian tennis team will play, today and tomorrow, a crucial match in the Davis Cup World Group I play-off, against Bulgaria. The match will take place at the Multipurpose Hall in Craiova. The local men's tennis has not been going...

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Landscape Was Shaken This Week When a Chinese Start-up, DeepSeek, Unveiled a New Model in the Field That Seems to Rival the Capabilities of US Giants OpenAI and Google, But Doesn't Have as Powerful Hardware....

The US stock market has appreciated by more than 20% in 2024 for the second year in a row, supported by solid growth in the United States economy, interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve amid a disinflationary trend, continued enthusiasm about...

The parties have a rack of canned projects, which they put on the table whenever they feel the need for a smokescreen. Regionalization is one such project, mentioned even during the communist period, which has been brought to light and shelved at...

The draw for the groups in the World Cup preliminaries took place in Zurich. The same story, with complicated rules for establishing groups, often difficult to understand, in the already classic style of those from FIFA. Our national team cannot...

The S&P 500 is up about 27% this year, slightly above its 24% gain in 2023, and if the year were to end at this point, it would be the best performance of the main U.S. stock market basket since 2019, an evolution that was not anticipated by...

The parliamentary elections in Romania that took place on Sunday brought significant changes to the national political landscape, and the real winners of the election were the sovereignists, who managed to introduce three political parties into...

The Social Democratic Party won the parliamentary elections, being credited in the exit poll prepared by CURS with 25.7% of the over 9.4 million votes cast, and in the INSCOP exit poll with 24% of the votes. PSD is followed by AUR, which stood,...

Călin Georgescu misrepresents the meaning of the vote that propelled him to first place in the presidential election:

Călin Georgescu este marele câştigător al primului tur al alegerilor prezidenţiale, atât timp cât el a înregistrat un progres fără precedent a unui candidat relativ obscur care era creditat la 2% la începutul campaniei electorale şi se afla pe...

Călin Georgescu is the big winner of the first round of the presidential elections, as he recorded an unprecedented progress for a relatively obscure candidate who was credited with 2% at the beginning of the electoral campaign and was in first...

The Minister of Education, Ligia Deca, participated in the evaluation session of Romania in the framework of the accession process to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), held on the sidelines of the Education Policy...

Alianţa Nord-Atlantică va lucra cu învingătorul alegerilor americane, oricare ar fi acesta, şi va face tot ce îi stă în putere pentru a rămâne unită, a promis secretarul general al NATO, Mark Rutte. Acesta a precizat: "Noi vom lucra cu Kamala...

The North Atlantic Alliance will work with the winner of the US election, whoever it is, and will do everything in its power to stay united, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte promised. He said: "We will work with Kamala Harris, we will work...

American officials are expecting a wave of misinformation and contestations in connection with the presidential elections held yesterday in the US, according to NBC News, which also shows that dozens of lawsuits have been opened in recent days -...

More than 239 million eligible American citizens are expected at the polls today to choose the next president of the United States. The presidential election in the United States represents a crucial moment in American politics, given the current...

În perioada premergătoare alegerilor prezidenţiale din SUA, din 2024, preşedintele Joe Biden, vicepreşedintele Kamala Harris şi fostul preşedinte Donald Trump au strâns, până pe 29 octombrie, peste un miliard de dolari fiecare, de la mai multe...

The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded in 2024 to South Korean writer Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical trauma and exposes the fragility of human life." Placed among the favorites, Mircea Cărtărescu has...

In the face of increasingly frequent and devastating climate threats, an innovative and simple solution is gaining ground: the rapid transfer of money to affected populations via mobile phone. Instead of waiting for a disaster to strike, this...

The Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu is also this year among the favorites to win the Nobel Prize for literature. The verdict for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced today, after lunch. The names of potential winners have...