ATTACK
\nThe explosion in front of the Parliament building in Ankara
\non Sunday morning was a terror attack, the Turkish Interior Ministry has
\nannounced. Two terrorists came with a light commercial vehicle in front of the
\nentrance gate of the General Directorate of Security of our Ministry of
\nInternal Affairs and carried out a bomb attack the Turkish Interior Minister
\nAli Yerlikaya said adding that two policemen were wounded. The same sources
\nhave announced that one of the terrorists blew himself up and the other was
\nneutralized. According to the Turkish media, the central district is home to several
\nministerial buildings and the nearby Parliament. The country’s president Recep
\nErdogan was set to attend the opening of the new session of Parliament, which
\nis these days expected to validate Sweden’s entry into NATO. During a series of
\nbloody incidents in 2015 and 2016, Kurdish militants, Islamic State and other
\ngroups either claimed or were blamed for several attacks in major Turkish
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ELECTION Former Prime Minister Robert Fico and his populist, leftist
\nparty, SMER-SD have won the early Parliament election in Slovakia after 99.9%
\nof the votes cast on Saturday were counted. The result contradicts the exit
\npolls, which indicated the victory of the pro-European Progressive Slovakia.
\nSMER-SD, which promoted anti-NATO and EU messages during their campaign and
\npledged to cut the military support given to Ukraine, has mustered 23.3% of the
\nvotes, 6% more than the Progressive Slovakia. Radio Romania correspondent in Slovakia
\nsays that a coalition is envisaged involving SMER, Hlas, which is a splinter
\ngroup from Fico’s party and the Christian-Democrats, which together have most
\nof the Parliament seats. Robert Fico was forced to step down in 2018 amid
\nprotests caused by the killing of an investigative journalist. <\/p>\n
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ART Almost
\n100 works of art by Romania’s famous sculptor Constantin Brancusi are on
\ndisplay as of Saturday in Timisoara, western Romania, in the most important
\nexhibition dedicated to this major artist in the past half a century. The
\nexhibition includes sculptures, photos, archive documents and film footages on
\ndisplay at the local National Art Museum until late January. The exhibits’
\ntotal insured value stays around half a billion euros. Under the suggestive title,
\nBrancusi, Romanian sources and universal prospects the exhibition invites the
\npublic to explore the way in which Brancusi managed to cross all geographic,
\nhistorical, formal and gender borders in order to ensure that special place
\nunattached to any artistic current. The exhibition has on view a series of
\nartefacts borrowed from the National Museum of Modern Art, Pompidou Center, in
\nParis, the Tate Gallery in London, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Art
\nMuseum in Bucharest, the Art Museum in Craiova and some private collections.
\nAmong the famous artefacts visitors can admire in Timisoara, there is the Bird
\nin Space, the Kiss, Mademoiselle Pogany or Sleeping Muse. The aforementioned
\nexhibition is part of the programme Timisoara – European Capital of Culture. <\/p>\n
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RUGBY Romania’s national rugby side lost
\ntheir third game in group B of the World Cup in France. On Saturday in Lille,
\nour rugby side came a cropper in their match against Scotland 0-84, the most
\ndramatic defeat in its history. Our players have so far lost to world leader
\nIreland and the en-titre champions South Africa and will be playing their last
\ngame against Tonga on October 8. <\/p>\n
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TENNIS The
\nRomanian-Ukrainian pair made up of Monica Niculescu and Nadiia Kichenok on
\nSunday qualified for the round of 16 of the doubles contest of the WTA 1000
\ntournament in Beijing, a competition with more than 8 million dollars in prize
\nmoney after a 6-3, 6-3 win against Shuko Aoyama\/Ena Shibahara of Japan. In the
\neight finals Niculescu and Kichenok will be up against the winners of the match
\npitching Ana Danilina of Kazahstan and Alexandra Panova of Russia to Beatriz
\nHaddad Maia of Brazil and Veronika Kudermetova of Russia. The main draw of the
\ndoubles contest also includes another Romanian, Sorana Cirstea who joined
\nBethanie Mattek-Sands of the USA for a match against Hao-ching Chan of Taiwan
\nand Giuliana Olmos of Mexico. <\/p>\n
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