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People sit at a 5-kilometer (3.1 miles) long "Uniting Table", made from recycled materials, during a Guinness World Record event to raise money for a children's psychiatric facility, outside the communist-era built Palace of Parliament, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Romania sets Guinness record with miles-long table, raises funds for pediatric psychiatry hospital

By Stephen McGrath and Andreea Alexandru - Associated Press

A woman walks by a fallen tree, in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday July 1, 2026, after a thunderstorm hit the Romanian capital the night before. (AP Photo/ Andreea Alexandru)

1 dead in Romania in a powerful storm after intense heatwave

Associated Press

A video from the Communist era secret police surveillance archives, seen through a pinhole, shows Anton Uncu sitting on a metal bed, a day before the opening of the "A.REST 1989 — The Securitate Video Archive" exhibition, at the National History Museum of Romania, in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A chilling Romanian exhibition replays videotaped secret police interrogations from 1989

By Stephen McGrath and Andreea Alexandru - Associated Press

People walk carrying a rainbow flag during the Bucharest Pride Parade, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, June 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Tens of thousands join Pride marches in Romania, Bulgaria to call for equality

By Veselin Toshkov and Stephen McGrath - Associated Press

Journalists take photos of the Dacian gold items, a 2,500-year-old helmet and wristbands, stolen from a museum in the Netherlands and then recovered by Dutch authorities, after they were presented upon being returned at the National Museum of Romanian History, in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Priceless 2,500-year-old golden helmet returned to Romania after Dutch museum raid

By Stephen McGrath and Andreea Alexandru - Associated Press

A stolen artefact from Romania, the 2,500-year-old Cotofenesti helmet, recovered in Netherlands, is shown during a press conference in Assen, Netherlands, Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Aleksandar Furtula)

2,500-year-old helmet from Romania stolen from Dutch museum recovered

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Firefighters secure parts of a damaged UAV shot down by Polish authorities at a site in Czosnowka near Biala Podlaska, Poland, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Piotr Pyrkosz)

Russia’s violation of Poland’s airspace is the most serious in a string of cross-border incidents

By Stephen McGrath and Andreea Alexandru - Associated Press

Honor guard soldiers stand next to the coffin of the late Ion Iliescu, Romania's first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace, in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ion Iliescu’s death exposes Romania’s deep divisions over his legacy as former leader laid to rest

By Stephen McGrath and Vadim Ghirda - Associated Press

Honor guard soldiers carry a picture of the late Ion Iliescu, Romania's first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, ahead of his coffin at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace, in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Casket of Romania’s divisive first post-communist president, Ion Iliescu, lies in state for funeral

By Stephen McGrath and Vadim Ghirda - Associated Press

Tudor Lakatos, who goes by the stage name Elvis Rromano, strikes a pose while getting ready for his performance with the Taraful Frunzelor band at the Terasa Florilor restaurant, in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Teacher fights discrimination against the Roma people, one Elvis song at a time

By Vadim Ghirda and Andreea Alexandru - Associated Press

FILE - Romanian President Ion Iliescu speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Bucharest Romania in this Nov. 9, 2004.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after 1989 revolution, has died at 95

By Stephen McGrath - Associated Press

Romanian President Nicusor Dan, left, shakes hands with Ilie Bolojan, the President of the country's senate, after nominating him as the new Prime Minister at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Romania’s new president nominates center-right former mayor as prime minister

By Stephen McGrath - Associated Press

Calin Georgescu, the winner of the first round of last year's annulled election, arrives at a prosecutor's office in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Calin Georgescu, front-runner in Romania’s canceled election, announces his withdrawal from politics

By Stephen McGrath - Associated Press

Romania's newly elected president Nicusor Dan reviews the honour guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace, after being sworn in at the parliament, in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Romania’s new president is sworn in as a political crisis eases, but challenges loom

By Stephen McGrath - Associated Press

Presidential candidate Nicusor Dan speaks after polls closed for the second round of the country's presidential election redo in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Romania’s new pro-European president puts it back on a Western course, but fault lines remain

By Justin Spike and Stephen McGrath - Associated Press

FILE - A man records video of Calin Georgescu, an independent candidate for president who won the first round of presidential elections, speaking to media outside a closed voting station after Romania's Constitutional Court annulled the first round of presidential elections, in Mogosoaia, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Romanians confront a deluge of online disinformation ahead of a presidential election rerun

By Stephen McGrath and Nicolae Dumitrache - Associated Press

Controversial politician Diana Sosoaca, who was barred by a top court from entering last year's presidential election, raises her hands wearing boxing gloves while speaking outside the country's electoral authority after she registered an unlikely bid to enter the May rerun in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romania’s far-right presidential hopeful Diana Sosoaca files new candidacy bid despite previous ban

By Stephen McGrath and Vadim Ghirda - Associated Press

A Russian flag flies over the Russian Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, File)

Romania detains 6 on suspicion of plotting a coup in collusion with Russia

By Stephen McGrath and Vadim Ghirda - Associated Press

Mohamed Amra, nicknamed ''The Fly", is escorted by armed police officers at the Henri Coanda international airport in Otopeni, Romania, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, before being extradited to France. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

French fugitive ‘The Fly’ is being extradited from Romania to France, official says

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Protesters walk holding Romanian flags during a rally organized by the right wing Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR), calling for free elections after Romania' s Constitutional Court annulled the first round of presidential elections last December, in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Tens of thousands protest in Romania’s capital against annulled presidential race

By Stephen McGrath and Andreea Alexandru - Associated Press