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Spain attack.<\/strong> Spain is on its
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World Humanitarian Day. <\/strong>The Romanian foreign ministry has
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Finland knife attack.<\/strong> The Finnish police said on Saturday
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Tennis.<\/strong> World no. 2
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Weather.<\/strong> A hot weather alert remains in place today in
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\nsale.<\/strong> The US State
\nDepartment has approved the sale to Romania of high mobility artillery rocket
\nsystems worth 1.25 billion dollars, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency at
\nthe Pentagon announced on Friday. Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for
\nthis weapons system. Romania said it was interested in buying up to 54 such
\nsystems and related services and equipment, said the Agency, quoted by Reuters.
\nIn a meeting chaired by president Klaus Iohannis on the 1st of
\nAugust, Romania’s Supreme Defence Council approved the army’s equipping plan
\nfor the 2017-2026 period. The plan contains a commitment taken in 2015 by all
\npolitical parties to allocate 2% of the country’s GDP to defence starting this
\nyear, as well as eight different equipping programmes, including the purchase
\nof Patriot missile defence systems from the US and 36 F16 multirole fighter
\nplanes. <\/p>\n
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\nsecond day of national mourning in memory of the victims of the terrorist
\nattacks on Thursday. A moment of silence was held across the country on Friday
\nand people gathered in front of improvised altars on Las Ramblas to pay their
\nrespects and bring flowers. The authorities are considering raising the terror
\nalert from 4 to the maxim level 5, which implies imminent attack and the
\npresence of armed security forces on the streets. 14 people were killed and
\nmore than 100 wounded in the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils. The victims
\ncame from 35 different countries. Of the three Romanian citizens wounded in the
\nattacks, two have been released from hospital, while the third is in stable
\ncondition. <\/p>\n
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\nhailed the celebration of World Humanitarian Day on the 19th of
\nAugust, paying tribute to all those willing to take risks and make personal
\nsacrifices to reduce suffering and help the victims of conflicts, violence and
\nnatural disasters. World Humanitarian Day has been celebrated on the 19th
\nof August following a 2008 United Nations resolution to commemorate the 2003
\nterrorist attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad that killed 22
\npeople, including Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN Secretary
\nGeneral’s special envoy for Iraq. Between 2014 and 2017, Romania granted
\nhumanitarian assistance worth more than 11 million euros to 12 states facing
\ncrisis situations such as the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, the conflict in
\neastern Ukraine, the Matthew hurricane in Haiti, the earthquake in Nepal and
\nthe floodings in Serbia and Bosnia Hertegovina. <\/p>\n
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\nthat the knife attack that took place on Friday in the south-western city of
\nTurku is considered a terrorist attack, naming the attacker as an 18-year-old
\nman of Moroccan origin. Two people were killed and six wounded in the
\nstabbings. No Romanian nationals are among the victims. <\/p>\n
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\nSimona Halep of Romania today faces world no. 151 Sloane Stephens of the US in
\nthe semifinals of the Cincinnati tennis tournament worth more than 2.5 million
\ndollars in prize money. On Friday, Halep defeated British no. 1 Johanna Konta
\nin straight sets, 6-4, 7-5. Last year in Cincinnati, Halep was eliminated by
\nAngelique Kerber in the semifinals and in 2015, she lost to Serena Williams in
\nthe final. Also in Cincinnati on Friday, the Romanian-Taiwanese pair Monica
\nNiculescu and Su-Wei Hsieh reached the women’s doubles final after
\ndefeating the fourth-seed pair Sania Mirza of India and Shuai Peng of China. <\/p>\n
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\nRomania. The highs are expected to go up to 37 degrees Celsius, with the
\ntemperature-humidity ratio reaching and exceeding the critical 80-unit level.
\nIt will still be hot on Sunday, but temperatures will drop slightly to 34 and
\n35 degrees and the weather becomes increasingly unstable in the west. <\/p>\n
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