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\nOver 21 thousand employees of the Romanian Interior Ministry were on duty in
\nthe first three days of this year to ensure citizen safety during the winter holidays, a
\nministry report reads. According to the same sources, no major events were
\nreported at the 180 cultural-artistic events attended by almost 320 thousand
\npeople on New Year’s Eve. Police intervened in 73 hundred cases involving
\npublic order reported at the emergency number 112. Special attention was paid to preventing serious
\naccidents and to streamlining road traffic to the most popular tourist resorts.
\nUp to 1,500 road police were on duty on the most circulated thoroughfares, with
\naround 270 radar speed guns, to safeguard the lives of drivers, passengers and
\npedestrians. A series of measures were implemented and 4 thousand border police
\nwere on duty at the country’s border checkpoints to streamline traffic and ease
\nthe access of the foreign tourists who had chosen Romania as a holiday
\ndestination and also of the Romanians who traveled abroad for the winter
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RECOMMENDATION The Foreign Ministry in Bucharest is recommending the Romanian
\ncitizens to avoid traveling to Iraq unless necessary, given the latest
\nescalation of tensions in the Middle East. The Romanians already there are
\nadvised to avoid crowded places, where meetings or demonstrations are taking
\nplace. They should report their presence to the closest diplomatic mission or
\nconsulate in order to be contacted in emergency situations. The controversial
\nIranian general Qassem Soleimani killed in a US raid in Iraq yesterday is being
\nburied today. The 62 year old general was considered the second in importance
\nafter leader Ali Khamenei. US president Donald Trump said that Soleimani’s
\nkilling was meant to stop a war not to start one, but according to the BBC ‘the
\nkilling marked a major escalation in tensions between Iran and the US’. Tehran has vowed revenge against the US for
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BUSHFIRE Devastating bushfires in Australia have prompted the authorities to
\nevacuate tens of thousands. The hot weather and strong winds have intensified the
\nbushfires, which in some places have got out of control. Since early September
\nwhen the fire started around five
\nmillion hectares of land have burned, at least 19 people have been killed, and
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\nathletes will be representing Romania at the 2020 Youth Olympics due in
\nLausanne, Switzerland over January 9 and 22. According to a communiqu\u00e9 issued
\nby the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee the Romanian athletes will be
\ncompeting in several disciplines, such as biathlon, bob-sleigh, ice hockey,
\nspeed skating, sledge, ski-jumping, alpine skiing, cross-country skiing and
\nsnowboarding. At the previous edition in Lillehammer, Norway, the first medals
\nin the history of Romania’s participation in such an event went to Eduard
\nCasaneanu, who walked away with gold from the ice-hockey event and Mihaela
\nHogas, who won bronze in the speed skating race. <\/p>\n
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