Visit.<\/strong> Croatia’s president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovi\u0107 travels to Bucharest today for talks with
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University year. <\/strong>Higher
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Protests.<\/strong> Members of the SANITAS trade union federation today picketed
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Unemployment.<\/strong> The unemployment rate in Romania stood at
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Nobel Prize.<\/strong> American
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US shooting.<\/strong> More
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Catalonia.<\/strong> The Catalan government says more than 40% of the
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Tennis.<\/strong> World no. 2 Simona Halep of Romania
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Football.<\/strong> The Romanian football squad met today in
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\nher Romanian counterpart Klaus Iohannis about developing and expanding
\nbilateral relations and European, regional and security issues. According to a
\npress release by the Romanian president’s office, special emphasis will be
\nplaced on aspects related to the future of the European project and the prospect
\nof the two countries’ holding the EU rotating presidency for the first time. On
\nTuesday, the two presidents will open the Romanian-Croatian business forum. <\/p>\n
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\neducation institutions in Romania today held festivities for the start of the
\nnew academic year. Local officials and foreign ambassadors to Romania have
\nattended the events held in different cities across the country. Almost 460,000
\nstudents are registered this year at state and private universities, but only
\n104,000 places are available in student residences. The price of a place in a
\nstudent campus stands at 130 lei per month, roughly 30 euros, but it can also
\ngo up to 200 lei, that’s around 50 euros, depending on the facilities provided.
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\nthe labour ministry to protest against the problems faced by the healthcare and
\nsocial assistance sector in this country. They demand the elimination of the
\n30% cap on specific bonuses and the implementation of the full amount of salary
\nincreases for all public healthcare and social assistance employees as of March
\n2018 and also called on the government to abandon plans to transfer social
\ncontributions from employer to employee and to continue granting meal vouchers
\nin 2018. Trade unions will picket the healthcare ministry on Wednesday, when
\nlarge-scale protests are scheduled, with protests continuing on Friday in front
\nof the finance ministry. SANITAS also plans to hold a rally and march on the 19th
\nof October and will later decide on a date for a general strike in the
\nhealthcare system. <\/p>\n
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\n5.1% in August, down 0.1% compared with the previous month, according to the
\nNational Institute for Statistics. The unemployment rate among men was 2.4%
\nhigher than that for women. The number of the unemployed is estimated at
\n465,000, fewer than in August last year, when more than 500,000 people were out
\nof work. <\/p>\n
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\nscientists Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young on Monday were
\nawarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2017 for their research on
\nmolecular mechanisms controlling circadian rhythms. The Nobel Prize in Medicine
\nis the first to be announced. The following awards to be announced this week
\nwill be those for physics, chemistry and peace, and that for economics on the 9th
\nof October. The Swedish Academy has announced that the prize for literature,
\nwhich is traditionally announced on a Thursday, will also be made public this
\nweek, on 5th of October. <\/p>\n
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\nthan 50 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in a mass shooting on
\nSunday night in Las Vegas, the US. According to investigators, the incident
\ntook place on the city’s main street during an outdoor country music concert.
\nThe gunman, who was firing from the 32nd floor of a nearby hotel, was
\nshot dead by the security forces. Soon after the attack, the main airport in
\nthe area was closed temporarily. <\/p>\n
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\nregion’s electorate, that’s 2.5 million voters, cast their ballots in Sunday’s
\nindependence referendum, with 90% backing independence. The leader of the
\nregional government, the secessionist Carles Puigdemont, said the citizens of
\nCatalonia have won the right to an independent state in the form of a
\nrepublic. The Spanish government, which declared the referendum illegal, has
\ncome under harsh criticism by its European partners for the excessive zeal of
\nthe police forces sent in to prevent the voting. According to Radio Romania’s
\ncorrespondent in Spain, the police wounded hundreds of people, stormed schools
\nand public buildings used as polling stations, confiscated electoral material
\nand seized control of the centre where votes were to be counted. <\/p>\n
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\ntoday faces the Slovakian player Magdalena Rybarikova in the second
\nround of the Beijing tournament worth 6.4 million dollars. Also in the second
\nround, Romania’s Monica Niculescu, world no. 65, is to face the winner between
\nShelby Rogers of the US and Shuai Peng of China. In the first round, Niculescu
\ndefeated the British player and world no. 7 Johanna Konta in straight sets. The
\nthird Romanian player in the tournament, world no. 44 Sorana Cirstea, on
\nTuesday faces the winner between the American players Sloane Stephens and Christina
\nMchale for a place in the third round. <\/p>\n
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\nBucharest to train for their final two matches as part of the World Cup
\nqualifiers, first on Thursday against Kazakhstan, at home, and then on Sunday
\nagainst Denmark. Romania have no mathematical chances of making it to next
\nyear’s World Cup in Russia. The match against Kazakhstan will mark the debut of
\nCosmin Contra as the new manager of the Romanian side. With 73 caps for Romania
\nand a former player for famous clubs such as AC Milan and Atletico Madrid,
\n41-year-old Contra has been managing the local side Dinamo Bucharest. Before
\nthat, he also managed teams in Romania, Spain and China. Contra took over from
\nthe German coach Cristoph Daum, who was the first foreign manager in the
\nhistory of the Romanian side. <\/p>\n
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