WAR Clashes were still reported on Monday between the
\nIsraeli army and Palestinian fighters infiltrated in the south of the country
\nfrom Gaza, after Israel reportedly hit over 500 targets of Hamas and the
\nIslamic Jihad organisations during the night. The Israeli defence forces have
\nfull control over the southern part of the country, attacked by the Palestinian
\nHamas forces, an Israeli military spokesman said on Monday, quoted by AFP and
\nReuters. This is the 3rd day of violent clashes that have so far
\nkilled around 1,200 people, over 700 of whom Israelis and at least 493
\nPalestinians, EFE reported on Monday. Israel’s security cabinet declared war following the attacks of the Palestinian
\norganisation Hamas, allowing the government to undertake significant military
\nactivities, the PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Sunday. <\/p>\n
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ISRAEL On Monday 96 Romanian nationals were repatriated from Israel, via
\nJordan, on a Tarom flight, the foreign ministry announced. Another 245 Romanian citizens were repatriated on Sunday, including 2 pilgrim
\ngroups. The foreign ministry reiterates its recommendation that Romanian
\nnationals should reschedule their planned trips to Israel and monitor the Travel
\nAlerts section on its home page. Meanwhile, a mobile consular team from the
\nRomanian embassy in Israel and from Romania’s representation office in Ramallah is at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv
\nto provide assistance to the Romanians there. A unit from the ministry’s emergency
\nresponse team has also been deployed to Israel, to help in the repatriation
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VISIT The president of Romania Klaus Iohannis is on a visit to Portugal,
\nwhere he is scheduled to have talks today with PM Ant\u00f3nio Costa, with the president
\nof the Assembly of the Republic Augusto Santos Silva, and with Portuguese MPs.
\nOn Saturday, Iohannis had a meeting with his Portuguese counterpat, Marcelo
\nRebelo de Sousa, discussing the war in neighbouring Ukraine, in which context
\nhe reiterated thanks for Portugal’s substantial contribution to the defence and
\ndeterrence posture on NATO’s eastern flank. The presence on Portuguese troops
\nin Romania is a strong signal of Portugal’s solidarity and support to
\nstrengthening Romania’s security, president Iohannis said. On the other hand,
\nthe president of Portugal said his country was supporting Romania’s Schengen
\nand OECD accession.<\/p>\n
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MEETING PM Marcel Ciolacu said today in Varna, Bulgaria, that during the
\nRomania – Bulgaria – Greece trilateral meeting the 3 countries agreed to
\nimplement a joint action plan aimed at significant development in trilateral
\ncooperation in sectors such as transports, energy, trade and security. In the
\npresence of EC officials, of the Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the Bulgarian
\nPM Nikolay Denkov, we have reiterated Romania’s ambition of quickly becoming a
\nSchengen member state and an influential economic player in the region, Marcel
\nCiolacu said. The Romanian official also added that Romania, in a partnership
\nwith Bulgaria and Greece, may have a greater influence in the EU, promoting its
\ncentral role in the reconstruction of Ukraine and its willingness to see the
\nRepublic of Moldova and Western Balkans countries joining the European bloc as
\nsoon as possible.<\/p>\n
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HOLOCAUST Romania marks today the National Holocaust Remembrance Day. On
\nOctober 9, 1941, the deportation of Jews from Bessarabia and Bukovina to
\nTransdniester started. The Holocaust was recognised by the Romanian authorities
\nin 2004, based on the conclusions reached by a commission headed by Nobel prize
\nwinner Elie Wiesel. The Jews and Roma who died during the Holocaust were
\ncommemorated in Bucharest, while Timi\u015foara is hosting a concert organised by
\nthe local Jewish community. <\/p>\n
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SWIMMING The Romanian athlete David Popovici, the defending European
\nchampion in the 100 and 200m freestyle races, won all the 4 short course competitions
\nin which he took part this weekend in Nyon (Switzerland). On Sunday he finished
\nthe 100m and 50m freestyle events in the first position, with 47.22s and 21.83s
\nrespectively, after on Saturday he had won the 400 and 200m freestyle races. The
\ncompetition in Switzerland is training opportunity ahead of the European short
\ncourse championships scheduled in December in Otopeni, near Bucharest. (AMP)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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