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Romania's LGBT community sees gains, ongoing rights struggle

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The last person jailed for being gay in Romania walked free in 1998.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Romania's LGBT community sees gains, ongoing rights struggle

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The last person jailed for being gay in Romania walked free in 1998.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Romania's LGBT community sees gains, ongoing rights struggle

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The last person jailed for being gay in Romania walked free in 1998.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Romania Holocaust survivor Tucarman dies from COVID-19 at 98

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Iancu Tucarman, one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in Romania, was buried Monday after dying from COVID-19 last week. He was 98.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Former banker named PM-designate after Romania election

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s president on Tuesday appointed the outgoing finance minister as prime minister-designate after three pro-Western centrist groups joined forces to keep out of power a left-leaning populist party that won most votes at a parliamentary election earlier this month.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Romania: Election expected to usher in 'European' generation

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanians will vote Sunday in a legislative election expected to restore some measure of stability in a country with one of the European Union's highest emigration rates, and bring to power a generation that came of age in a time of national turmoil and strongly identifies …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Romania: Fire in COVID-19 intensive care unit kills 10

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in northeastern Romania killed 10 people Saturday and injured 10 others, seven of them critically, officials said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

AP PHOTOS: Pandemic tempers patron saint festival in Romania

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The feast of St. Dimitrie of Basarabov, the patron saint of Bucharest, is a show of Orthodox Christianity's strength in Romania, where a weeklong festival devoted to the former hermit typically draws up to 100,000 people from all over the country to the capital every October.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Romania's Jewish State Theater explores work on Holocaust

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The latest première at the Jewish State Theater in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, explores the horrors of the Holocaust via a survivor's memories of the Auschwitz and Plaszow concentration camps.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Romania's Jewish State Theater explores work on Holocaust

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The latest première at the Jewish State Theater in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, explores the horrors of the Holocaust via a survivor's memories of the Auschwitz and Plaszow concentration camps.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Romania's Jewish State Theater explores work on Holocaust

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The latest première at the Jewish State Theater in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, explores the horrors of the Holocaust via a survivor's memories of the Auschwitz and Plaszow concentration camps.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Romania's Jewish State Theater explores work on Holocaust

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The latest première at the Jewish State Theater in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, explores the horrors of the Holocaust via a survivor's memories of the Auschwitz and Plaszow concentration camps.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Ukraine

Ukrainian troops ride on an armored vehicle outside Artemivsk, Ukraine, while withdrawing from Debaltseve, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. After weeks of relentless fighting, the embattled Ukrainian rail hub of Debaltseve fell Wednesday to Russia-backed separatists, who hoisted a flag in triumph over the town. The Ukrainian president confirmed that he …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

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