July 13, 2017 UPDATE
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Newsroom, 13.07.2017, 20:08
DISSIDENT – Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, died, the authorities in Beijing announced on Thursday. The 61-year-old opposition activist was admitted to hospital after he had been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. Xiaobo was serving an 11-year prison sentence for subversion. According to France Press, Xiaobo is the second Nobel peace prizewinner who dies in captivity after German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, who died in a Nazi prison hospital in 1938.
VISIT – The president of the Chamber of Deputies in Bucharest, Liviu Dragnea was received by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Thursday. According to Radio Romania correspondent, the two mainly tackled the bilateral cooperation in the field of defence. Also high on the agenda was the participation of the Israeli investors in the Sovereign Fund for Development and Investment and their involvement in medical research as well as in a project concerning a hospital network. On Wednesday in Tel Aviv, Dragnea opened the works of the Parliament-to-Parliament Forum. Stepping up Romanian-Israeli cooperation was also high on the talks agenda between Dragnea and the Knesset’s speaker Yuli-Yoel Edelstein.
VACCINE — Romanian Prime Minister Mihai Tudose on Thursday said that 180 thousand children hadn’t got the anti-measles vaccine, whereas 80 thousand others had not been immunized for polio. In an executive session, Tudose has called on the health minister Florian Bodog to prepare a large-scale information campaign on this issue. Romania is presently facing the biggest measles epidemics in recent years with 75 thousand cases of infections and 31 deaths.
FOOTBALL – The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday ruled that FC Viitorul remain the Romanian champions, thus upholding a decision of the Romanian governing bodies. Viitorul and FCSB finished with the same number of points, but Viitorul were declared champions based on a better head-to-head record during the final phase of the competition. The runner-up side, FCSB, had appealed the decision saying they should be champions because of a better record during the entire season.
