TENNIS The world’s second tennis player, Romanian Simona Halep, yesterday
\nqualified for the third round of the Indian Wells tournament after a 6-2, 6-4
\nwin against Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic. Halep, who won the Indian
\nWells tournament in 2015, will next take on Katerina Kozlova of Ukraine. Another
\nRomanian, Mihaela Buzarnescu conceded a 6-2, 6-2 defeat in the second round of
\nIndian Wells to Daria Gavrilova of Australia. Marius Copil, also from the
\nRomanian delegation was also outperformed 6-2, 6-2, by Radu Albot of the
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PROSECUTION The Special Section for the Investigation of Magistrates in Bucharest
\nhas today announced that the former chief of Romania’s main anti-corruption
\nagency DNA, Laura Codruta Kovesi has been placed under penal investigation in a
\nsecond file under the charges of setting up an organized criminal group and
\nconspiracy to unjust repression. Between 2015-2016 Kovesi would allegedly have
\ncoordinated a criminal group made up of two prosecutors and a police officer,
\nsuspected of abusive investigation, unjust repression, trying to influence
\nstatements and creating confusion between legal institutions. The former DNA
\nchief has described all these are fabrications aimed at tarnishing her
\nreputation. Kovesi is being prosecuted in a first file for abuse of office,
\nfalse testimony and bribery. We recall that the former DNA chief was sacked
\nlast summer when Justice Minister Tudorel Toader accused her of having defied
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BURIAL The remains of Romania’s former sovereign, Carol 2nd are
\nbeing reinterred today at the Archbishop Cathedral in Curtea de Arges, southern
\nRomania, where other members of the royal family are also buried. Last night
\nthe coffin was taken out of the chapel it stayed since 2003, when the body of
\nthe former king had been brought from Lisbon. After a religious service, the
\ncoffin will be placed into a crypt not far from those of Romania’s last
\nsovereign king Mihai 1st and his wife, queen Ana. King Carol 2nd
\nruled the country between 1930 and 1940 a very controversial period in
\nRomania’s history characterized on one hand by economic prosperity, cultural
\ndevelopment and loyalty towards Romania’s Western allies, and on the other by
\nthe king’s immoral behavior, the corruption of his associates and the setting
\nup of his personal dictatorship in 1938. After ceding without fight a third of
\nthe country’s territory to the neighboring USSR, Hungary and Bulgaria, Carol 2nd
\nwas forced to abdicate in favour of his son Mihai. He lived in exile and died
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POPULATION Romania’s population continues to diminish due to a decline in
\nthe fertility rate and due to migration, data publish by the National Institute
\nfor Statistics (INS) show. 200 people, mostly men with ages between 30 and 40,
\nare leaving the country on a daily basis. According to the aforementioned
\ninstitute on January 1st 2018 there were 120 thousand people less
\nthan on January 1st 2017. According to the same data, more Romanians
\ndied than were born and the number of those leaving the country was higher than
\nthose who entered it. A 2017 INS survey shows that more children were born in
\nRomanian families living in Italy than in Romania and the number of children
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