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Corruption. <\/strong>The National Anticorruption Directorate said 39 final sentences
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A round up of local and international news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-105898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsflash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nDay.<\/strong> Military ceremonies, laying of flowers, exhibitions and film screenings
\nare held around the country to mark Romania’s National Independence Day, the
\nVictory of the United Nations Coalition in WWII and Europe Day, all three of
\nwhich are celebrated every year on 9th May. The European Commission
\nrepresentation in Romania launched a communication campaign entitled Faces of
\nEuropean Solidarity and consisting in an exhibition of photographs documenting
\nRomanians’ solidarity with the people who fled Ukraine following the Russian
\ninvasion and the care and warmth with which they were received by the Romanians
\nnear the border areas, at refugee centres and in their homes. Europe must
\nbecome stronger, more vocal, more capable and better prepared, said Romania’s
\npresident Klaus Iohannis in his Europe Day statement.<\/p>\n
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\nVictory Day. <\/strong>Russia today marks its biggest national holiday, Victory Day
\nagainst Nazi Germany, an opportunity to display its might as war is waging in Ukraine.
\nAccording to Radio Romania’s correspondent in Moscow, Russia also wants to
\ncelebrate this event in the territories it occupied in eastern Ukraine. Kyiv
\nhas taken additional security measures expecting an increase in Russian
\nattacks. Russia has forgotten everything that
\nwas important to the victors of World War II, said Ukraine’s president Volodymyr
\nZelensky in his nightly address. He condemned the violent shelling of several
\nUkrainian regions, with one strike against a school in the east killing 60
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\n<\/strong>G7 countries, who said Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine are bringing shame
\non Russia, pledged to give up Russian oil, but did not provide a timetable.
\nAccording to the White House, this decision will deal a powerful blow to the
\nmain artery of Putin’s economy and deprive it of the revenues needed to fund his
\nwar against Ukraine. France Presse new agency notes that European Union states,
\nwhich are more reliable on Russian energy imports, have continued their difficult
\ntalks to agree on a ban on Russian oil. The US, in the meantime, has announced
\nfresh sanctions against Russia targeting the media and the access of Russian
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\nwere passed in March against 86 defendants in corruption cases, including
\ngiving and taking bribe, peddling in influence and fraud involving European
\nfunds. Sentences vary between 7 years and 8 months in prison and fines
\namounting to the equivalent in lei of 3,000 euros. <\/p>\n
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\nTennis. <\/strong>Poland’s Iga Swiatek
\ncomfortably leads the WTA ranking published on Monday, followed by Barbora
\nKrejcikova of the Czech Republic and Spain’s Paula Badosa. Former world no. one
\nSimona Halep remains the highest-ranked Romanian tennis player, at no. 20.
\nRomania has five other players in the top 100: Sorana C\u00eerstea, at no. 26,
\nGabriela Ruse at no. 57, Irina Begu at no. 63, Jaqueline Cristian at no. 70 and
\nAna Bogdan at no. 95. In the women’s doubles ranking, Monica Niculescu is the
\nhighest-ranked Romanian, at no. 42, as Raluca Olaru drops six places to no. 49.
\nIrina Begu is at no. 47, Irina Bara at no. 62 and Gabriela Ruse at no. 93. (CM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"