PROTEST Restaurants and beer gardens all over Romania will today close for one
\nhour to protest the authorities’ lack of support for the Horeca industry in
\nRomania. Restaurant and pub owners are disgruntled with the authorities’
\ndecision to keep them closed, a measure, which could cause the loss of 400
\nthousand jobs in the cold season as this industry has been incurring
\nsignificant losses. Prime Minister Ludovic Orban says that as soon as the
\nepidemiological situation has improved in Romania, the government will allow
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COVID-19 Romania has confirmed over 72 thousand infections since the beginning
\nof the pandemic and a Covid-related death toll over 3,074. According to a
\nreport by the National Public Health Institute, the number of infections and
\nfatalities last week slightly decreased as compared to the previous week.
\nAlmost a third of the new cases have been reported in the counties of Prahova,
\nArges, Bihor and Timis. Bucharest, Suceava in the north-east, and Arges in the
\ncountry’s south have reported the highest number of infections since the
\nbeginning of the pandemic. Almost 95% of the deceased had at least one comorbidity
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SUMMIT EU
\nleaders, including Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis are today attending a
\nhigh-level video-conference on the latest developments in Belarus. The opposition
\ncandidate in the latest presidential election in this country, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya,
\nwho fled to Lithuania, has made an appeal to the European Council not to recognize
\nthe rigged election in Belarus on august 9th. Yesterday almost 200
\npeople protested in front of the detention centre in Minsk calling for the
\nrelease of Tikhanovskaya’s husband Sergei Tikhanovsky currently detained for
\noffences against public order. A well-known blogger, Sergei Tikhanovsky had
\nannounced his candidacy for the presidential seat and was campaigning against
\nincumbent president Alexandr Lukashenko. Protests were sparked off 10 days ago
\nafter the Central Election Commission announced that Lukashenko had won 80.1 %
\nof the votes in the election. At least two people have been killed and over 67
\nhundred wounded in the latest anti-presidential protests in Belarus. <\/p>\n
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FOOTBALL There are no odds-on favourites in the match pitching CFR Cluj against
\nFloriana FC, Romanian headcoach Dan Petrescu says, adding that each side stands
\nequal chances to win and qualify for the competition’s next stage. Romanian
\nfootball side CFR Cluj will tonight be up against Floriana FC of Malta in the
\nChampions League’s first preliminary round. The two sides are to play only one round
\nand the winner will be facing the Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb, in the
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US ELECTION Barack Obama’s
\nvice-president Joe Biden has become the Democratic Party nominee to challenge incumbent
\npresident Donald Trump in the US presidential election on November 3rd.
\nMost of the Democrats endorsed the former vice-president to run for the
\npresidential seat during the party’s virtual convention in Milwaukee on Monday
\nin keeping with the measures against the Covid-19 pandemic. Joe Biden, 77, is
\nexpected to deliver his acceptance speech on Thursday. In turn, president Trump
\nhas visited the states of Iowa, Arizona, Minnesota and Wisconsin and has
\nrenewed his attacks against the one he called ‘Sleepy Joe’ whom he described as
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