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Rushdie. <\/strong> Writer Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed on
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Rowing.<\/strong> On Sunday,Romania won gold in the women’s 8+1 event
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\nRomanian Naval Forces marked a day of gratitude in memory of the seafaring
\nheroes who lost their lives in the service of the country. On August 15, the
\nNaval Forces celebrate Navy Day with events staged in Romania’s river and Black
\nSea ports. President Klaus Iohannis will participate in the festivities in
\nConstan\u0163a (port on the Black Sea), and will give a speech at the official
\nceremony. He will also visit the training ship Mircea, recently
\nreturned from an international training march. In Port Tomis, the activities
\norganized on Navy Day include exhibitions of military equipment, and ship
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\nfirefighters, using special vehicles and a large-capacity tanker, continue
\nextinguishing the wildfires near the city of Bordeaux, in the southwest of
\nFrance. According to the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, the
\nfirefighters are working in extreme conditions: high temperatures, low humidity
\nand strong winds. Their mission is to limit the spread of the fire to the homes
\nin the area and to extinguish hidden outbreaks. Romania supports the French
\nauthorities in the fight against wildfires with a team made up of 77
\nfirefighters and several specific pieces of equipment. France, like other European
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\nFriday, during a literary event in the state of New York, remains in the
\nhospital, but no longer requires artificial ventilation. Writers around the
\nworld expressed their joy that Rushdie could finally speak, and President Joe
\nBiden joined international voices in condemning the attack, and hailing Sir
\nRushdie for promoting universal ideas. Authorities have not made public the reason
\ngiven by the man who stabbed the writer. The attacker, aged 24, was born in
\nCalifornia to immigrant parents from southern Lebanon. One of his social media
\naccounts shows that he is a sympathizer of extremist Shiite groups and the
\nIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, but it is not clear if he has any ties to
\nthem. In the Muslim community, Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses
\nsparked numerous controversies, due to what many Muslims considered to be
\nblasphemy. The novel was banned in India, was burned at some demonstrations in
\nthe United Kingdom, and triggered violent riots in Pakistan. In February 1989
\nthe supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a kind of decree, a
\nfatwa, calling on all good Muslims to kill Rushdie or help assassinate him and
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\nMothers (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine), directed by Peter Kerekes, won
\nthe Anonimul 2022 trophy. The film tells the true story of mothers in a women’s
\nprison in Odessa (Ukraine). The feature film won, at the Venice Film Festival
\n2021, the prize of the Orizzonti section for the best screenplay and was
\nincluded in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera competition of the San Sebastian Film
\nFestival. Fragment\u0103ri (Fragmentations) by Miruna Minculescu was
\ndesignated the best Romanian short reel, and the award for the best foreign
\nshort film went to Fantasma Neon (Brazil), by Leonardo Martinelli.
\nAuric\u0103, a dog’s life, directed by Mihai Dragolea, is the short film
\nto which the Anonimul Foundation awarded the Ovidiu Bose Pa\u015ftin\u0103 Award. 12
\nfilms participated in the Romanian short film competition, and 10 in the
\ninternational short film competition. The 19th edition of the Anonimul
\nInternational Independent Film Festival took place between August 8 and 14, in
\nSf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe (Danube Delta).<\/p>\n
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\nscreenings and 12 international documentaries, from 11 countries, will be
\npresented at the 14th edition of the R\u00e2\u015fnov Film and History Festival (central
\nRomania), which takes place from August 14 to September 4. The selection of
\ndocumentaries includes films from Chile, Argentina, Spain, Portugal, Romania,
\nFrance, Australia, USA, Belgium, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova. According
\nto the organizers, theme of the festival this year is focused around the idea
\nof \u200b\u200bborders, a concept that aims to bring answers to multiple questions and
\nchallenges related to individual and creative freedoms that today’s society
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\nswimmer David Popovici on Saturday set a new 100 meter freestyle world record
\nat the European Aquatics Championships in Rome. The 17-year-old athlete,
\nalready a double world champion, broke by half a tenth of a second the previous
\nrecord, set 13 years ago, by the Brazilian Cesar Cielo, finishing the race
\nafter 46 seconds and 86 hundredths, and winning the gold medal. David Popovici
\nsays his goal now is to get under 45 in the 100m freestyle. On Sunday, David
\nPopovici qualified for the semifinals of the 200 m freestyle event.<\/p>\n
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\nat the European Rowing Championships in Munich. Also on Sunday, Romanian
\nathlete Ionela Cozmiuc won the gold medal in the lightweight single sculls. So
\nRomania ended the championships with an excellent record: five gold and three
\nbronze medals. At last year’s European Rowing Championships, in Varese (Italy),
\nRomanian rowers won six medals, two gold and four silver. (MI)<\/p>\n
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