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3 septembrie 2024

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Donald Trump's favorite to head NASA promises a quick return of American astronauts to the moon

Billionaire Jared Isaacman, an entrepreneur in the field of online payments and close to Elon Musk, reiterated in a tense hearing in the US Senate that the absolute priority of the United States must be to return to the moon before China.

UNESCO warns of AI expansion

French philosopher Eric Sadin has called for a "moral, political and civilizational struggle” against the development of generative artificial intelligence (AI), underlining the dangers that emerging technologies pose to culture, education and intellectual heritage.

Follow The Money: CE Oltenia's false reporting saves the company 250 million euros

The Oltenia Energy Complex, which represents 20% of national energy production, would have reported extremely low CO2 levels for years, exactly when the price of ETS certificates was increasing, an artifice that would have brought the company in our country savings of over 250 million euros, according to a journalistic investigation published Thursday evening by the Follow The Money website, carried out in partnership with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).

Bucharesters vote, politicians adrift: no new candidate, same crisis of credibility

The local by-elections for the position of Mayor General of the Capital represent yet another proof of the incompetence of the political class, which, a year after the disastrous experiment of Călin Georgescu and over six months after the presidential elections in May 2025, did not understand that it must reform, to bring new, competent people, professionals in their field of activity to the forefront, thus leaving room for increasing dissatisfaction among citizens with the right to vote, some of whom have come to radicalize and thicken the ranks of extremist parties.

Partial local elections: Marcel Ciolacu wants to become the head of the Buzău County Council

The manual of the local social-democratic baron began in the time of Liviu Dragnea with the county and ended with the party and the government. First president of the County Council in Teleorman, then leader of the PSD and shadow prime minister, the "baron of Teleorman" climbed step by step up the pyramid of power, from the bottom up, until he transformed a poor county into a laboratory of political and economic influence, spectacular enough for the press to consecrate him as the prototype of a local and national baron alike.

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Romania joins the laser technology elite: construction of the High Power Optics Center in Măgurele has begun

Education Minister: Teachers Are Responsible for Functional Illiteracy Only When the Child is Constantly Present at School

Study: Owning a smartphone at age 12 increases risk of depression, obesity and insufficient sleep

MEC awarded medal-winning students at international and regional olympiads

Health Minister: ”Introducing contaminated water into the centralized network would be an unprecedented epidemiological incident”

Argentina prepares new mega-trial in Diego Maradona death case

MApN has completed the procurement procedure for the HISAR light corvette

The most profitable companies in the world; Technology - at the top of the list

The ranking of the most profitable companies in the world in 2025 highlights a strong concentration of earnings in the fields of technology, finance and energy, according to visualcapitalist.com which, based on data from FinanceCharts.com, has...

Natural gas bill to increase by 5% from April 1, 2026

The natural gas bill will increase by 5% for the final consumer starting April 1, 2026, after the capping scheme ends on March 31, announced Laurenţiu Urluescu, president of the Romanian Energy Suppliers Association (AFEER), yesterday during an...

FIFA to reveal full 2026 World Cup schedule in global broadcast

US and Japanese Investors Prefer Domestic Investments

Unity Day - the day of the division of the sovereignist movement

The sovereignist movement split on the Great Unity Day, that is, on the National Day, right in Alba Iulia.

Greece maps its active seismic faults for the first time

Romania renegotiates with the European Space Agency: contributions reached 250 million lei per year

Euro-digital, blocked by the banking sector and the European Parliament

The euro-digital currency is having a hard time taking off, and this is displeasing to Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, who pushed it to the forefront of the European agenda, according to a journalistic investigation...

Russian researchers create reusable polymer film that absorbs oil from water surface

Miss Universe in the middle of an international scandal with allegations of fraud and drug trafficking

Tattoos, under the microscope of science: worrying effects on the immune system

Mexico joins the league of digital superpowers with a new supercomputer

Education Minister reassures the system: "Measures regarding pension-salary cumulation will not affect teachers"

Real estate bubble risk in Miami, Tokyo and Zurich

Donald Trump wants to bring the US into the era of AI-driven science - the Genesis Mission program

"Genesis Mission”, this is the name of the presidential executive order signed on November 24 by President Donald Trump, which established the plan for the total reorganization of American science under the leadership of Artificial...

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Budget deficit target for 2025 - maintained at 8.4% of GDP

• 5.7% of GDP - budget deficit at the end of October • Deficit after the first 10 months, 0.5% lower than that recorded in 2024 for the same period • Government prepares the second budget rectification • Beneficiaries of the second rectification are:...

Israeli army beheading: despite knowing about Hamas' aggression plan, IDF leadership remained passive

There were dismissals at the top of the Israeli military this week, ordered by General Eyal Zamir, the new Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

China opens global access to its nuclear fusion infrastructure

China has launched a large-scale international scientific program dedicated to fusion plasma research in Hefei, offering global access to its main nuclear fusion infrastructure for the first time, Xinhua reported.

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Romania and the United States resume, in a revised format, the FLEX Program

National distribution of Residency places has ended: the largest number of places in recent years

The distribution process by specialties and university centers for candidates who passed the Residency Competition has been completed, announced the Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete.

Study: Digitalization is seen as a key solution for efficiency and transparency

At the conference held in Bucharest and attended by over 600 stakeholders in the defense field - institutional actors and representatives of the business environment, there was talk about the historic opportunity that the defense industry in our country has, an opportunity that we cannot afford to miss.

Convergence between the state and industry, the foundations of the new Romanian defense

General Prosecutor's Office: Euroins bankruptcy, caused by fraudulent management, embezzlement and money laundering

The bankruptcy scandal of the insurance company Euroins Romania returned to the spotlight yesterday, after the Public Ministry announced that prosecutors from the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice are...

Although declining, Bitcoin continues to dominate the cryptocurrency market

The global cryptocurrency market cap is currently worth nearly $3 trillion, according to visualcapitalist.com, which ranks the world's largest cryptocurrencies in 2025, showing how value is distributed across major networks, stablecoins, and...

Study: Contamination with "eternal chemicals” massively affects whales and dolphins

Murderous tourism in Sarajevo in the 1990s; shooting children, the highest price

A "human safari” that allegedly attracted, for exorbitant sums, wealthy foreigners from Italy, Russia, the United States, Canada, Greece and Western countries, to shoot civilians under sniper terror in the early 1990s in Sarajevo,...

European Super League Promoters Demand euro4.5 Billion from UEFA

If the member states do not raise the money, the head of the European Commission is prepared to put the Union into debt again - in the name of solidarity, but on the backs of European taxpayers, who will be the ones forced to repay the principal and interest.

EU lives on debt

• The European Commission will have to repay by 2058 loans worth 421 billion euros and interest worth 222 billion euros, taken during the pandemic for the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism and for NextGeneration EU • To this amount, another 150...