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Caracal killings.<\/strong> Investigators continued searches on Sunday at the home of Gheorghe
\nDinc\u0103 from Caracal, in southern Romania, the man who said, after being detained
\nmore than a week ago, that he killed two teenagers, 15-year-old Alexandra M\u0103ce\u015fanu
\nand 18-year-old Luiza Melencu. New biological samples were collected from the
\nsuspect’s courtyard and home. The Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime
\nand Terrorism (DIICOT), which is conducting the inquiry, said the ash collected
\nfrom Dinc\u0103’s home only showed traces of Alexandra’s DNA, the girl who went missing on the 24th of
\nJuly, which confirms the suspect’s statements that he burned her body. While the
\ninvestigators were conducting searches at Dinc\u0103’s home, locals came to leave
\ncandles outside the house in memory of the two girls. A religious services was
\nalso held on Sunday at the Orthodox Cathedral in Caracal. <\/p>\n

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Treaty.<\/strong> The foreign
\nministry in Bucharest has posted a message on its official Twitter page saying
\nRomania stands together with the United States and its NATO allies on the INF
\nnuclear treaty, which has ceased to exist. Russia and the US announced on
\nFriday the cessation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which banned missiles with
\nranges between 500 and 5,500 km. Washington said it would withdraw from the
\ntreaty back in February. Moscow reacted on the same day, saying it too would
\npull out. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused Russia of being in
\nmaterial breach of the treaty, with Moscow repeatedly rejecting the accusation.
\nThe INF pact, which was signed by the US and the former USSR in 1987, banned ground-launched
\nmissiles with short and medium ranges. <\/p>\n

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Tourism. <\/strong>More than five million tourists were reported in Romania in the
\nfirst six months of the year, less than last year, according to the National
\nInstitute for Statistics. The majority were Romanian, with foreign visitors
\naccounting for under 21%. Among foreign tourists, most of them came from
\nEurope, 85% of whom from the EU. 115,000 tourists came from Germany, and around
\n92,000 from Italy and Israel each. The visitors used mostly road and air
\ntravel.<\/p>\n

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Festival.<\/strong> The British singer Robbie
\nWilliams featured on the last day of Untold, a big electronic music festival
\nhosted by the city of Cluj-Napoca, in north-western Romania. The four-day festival has brought together 200 acts on its ten different
\nstages. <\/p>\n

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Fair.<\/strong> Seven Romanian clothes manufacturers are taking part in an
\neconomic mission in Atlanta, in the US, in an event meant to promote the
\ncreative industries and exports of quality products with high added value. The
\nseven companies are attending for the first time one of the biggest fashion
\nfairs in the US, hoping to forge collaborations with US companies, writes a
\nstatement from the ministry for business, trade and entrepreneurship in
\nBucharest. <\/p>\n

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Tennis.<\/strong> The Romanian tennis player ranked 223rd in the world Patricia
\nMaria \u0162ig on Sunday won the final of the tournament in Karlsruhe, in Germany, defeating the world no. 65 Alison van Uytvanck of Belgium in three sets. \u0162ig, who won in 1 hour and 38 minutes, has only won two WTA finals in her career, the first in Baku in 2015 and again in Bucharest last month<\/p>\n

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