In a statement issued Thursday evening, the National Liberal Party (PNL) accused the Social Democratic Party (PSD) of launching a disinformation campaign around Eurostat data on Romania's budget deficit, saying it is "shamelessly lying" by suggesting that the deficit grew under the Bolojan government.

Romania wants to speed up the development of maritime surveillance, mine clearance and anti-drone defense, as incidents in the Black Sea have multiplied in recent weeks; this was discussed on Thursday by members of the Supreme Defense Council (CSAT) at the Cotroceni Palace in Bucharest.

Iran is threatening to attack energy facilities, undersea telecommunications cables, and data centers and artificial intelligence infrastructure in the Persian Gulf region if the United States and Israel resume their bombing campaign. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said that Tehran could strike targets in as many as seven regional countries, and that if Iran

The Prosecutor General's Office is putting Dan Tanasă, a member of parliament for the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), on trial, charging him with incitement to violence, hatred or discrimination. According to the indictment, on 19 August 2025 Tanasă wrote on social media: “Refuse the delivery if it's not brought by a Romanian. Stop supporting the importation of unskilled worke

Bulgaria would continue to fulfill its financial commitments to support Ukraine through the European Peace Facility, but insists that its contribution not be used to purchase new lethal weapons. According to a report by the Bulgarian state news agency BTA, the government in Sofia therefore decided on October 21 to apply so-called constructive abstention, which allows it to stay out of such support

Israel will hold parliamentary elections on October 27, three years after Hamas's massacre of October 7, 2023, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may now be closer to defeat than at any point in his long career. His main challenger is former Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, whose party, Yashar (Straight), is currently the strongest in Israel according to polls compiled by The New Arab.

Russia is once again trying to influence the American election with a broad disinformation campaign, this time ahead of the November 3 midterm elections. That is the claim of the senior Democratic members of Congress's two intelligence committees, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia and Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, who on Wednesday received a classified briefing on election security. The b

French health authorities have detected for the first time in a human the Shamonda virus, which causes disease in cattle and was until now believed not to spread to humans. The infected man was a severely immunocompromised patient who was being treated at the Lyon university hospitals (Hospices Civils de Lyon) for a serious illness, and died in early October.

A coalition of Romanian civic organizations has turned to the Party of European Socialists (PES), asking it to examine how compatible PSD's policies are with the European party family's founding principles, at a time when Romania's Social Democrats are increasingly tightening their cooperation with the far-right AUR. According to the petition reported by G4Media, these are not isolated instances o

Witkoff, the real estate agent whom demented American President Donald Trump appointed as presidential envoy to advance peace in Ukraine — meaning he has full authority to negotiate, to blackmail, to flatter, to relay promises and to collect counter-promises — put on a show in St. Petersburg yesterday that would make any thinking, decent person feel sheer nausea. But let's start at the beginning.

In more than twenty cities and smaller towns across Poland women took to the streets on Thursday, because three years ago Donald Tusk's liberal government promised to ease the country's extremely strict abortion law, yet legal and free termination of pregnancy is still barely accessible today. The protesters were not appeased even by the fact that the Polish parliament passed two bills on Tuesday

Due to two critical security vulnerabilities, governments, local authorities, universities and large corporations have taken parts of their websites offline worldwide in recent days. The flaws were found in PHP, the programming language that, according to W3Techs data, powers nearly 70 percent of the world's websites, including WordPress, Wikipedia and Slack. The vulnerabilities, dubbed "PHP2Shell

MASZÍN, that is, the leaders of Romania's Hungarian theatres, told such a huge lie that "with.potătoes.I.want.to.plant.the.whole-thing"

Russia has released Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old American citizen whom Moscow accused of fighting as a mercenary on Ukraine's side. Vladimir Putin announced on Wednesday in St. Petersburg, during talks with US special envoy Steve Witkoff, that Hubbard had already been taken to Pulkovo Airport. The Michigan-born retired teacher was sentenced by a Moscow court in 2024, at the age of 72, to nearly

For the first time in a long while, it looks as though the PNL is seriously considering being in opposition, and furthermore, pursuing an independent party policy of its own. After all, for close to two decades now, perhaps more, the Liberals have been the PSD's sidecar — we still remember the USL (Social-Liberal Union), the PSD–PNL coalition that ruled Romania under total dominance from 2012 to 2

On Tuesday in Brussels, Hungary refused to approve the screening results for the last two chapter clusters in Ukraine's EU accession negotiations, thereby halting, for the time being, the preparations for opening clusters 4 and 5. This was reported by several EU diplomats familiar with the negotiations, following a meeting of the Council of the European Union's enlargement working group (COELA), t

On Tuesday, October 20, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed security guarantees for Ukraine with US special envoy Steve Witkoff in Oslo, while Kyiv has to face the fact that Washington is also making uncertain the cooperation needed for its current defense. After the meeting, Zelensky said that the various versions of the guarantees had been compiled into a single document, which Witk

The National Liberal Party (PNL) announced, after Tuesday's vote installing the Niculescu government, that it will move into opposition. From now on, full responsibility for governing rests with the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the prime minister designated by President Nicușor Dan - said in parliament Ionel Bogdan, spokesperson for the PNL. “Today's vote in parliament has closed the politica

On Tuesday, the Orthodox Diocese of Huși suspended from service a priest from Vaslui County who was placed in pre-trial detention over the weekend on suspicion of sexual assault, rape of a minor and sexual acts with a minor. The priest of the parish of Parpanița, part of the town of Negrești, is now barred from performing any religious services. According to the police investigation, the priest se

We're getting close to the point where, if a head of state or government wants to win the next election, they should pay Donald Trump to publicly badmouth them. According to a survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) between October 8 and 16, 54 percent of Ukrainians trust Volodymyr Zelensky, while 41 percent do not.