Stopping probably meant being executed. Before the war ... enough to see the rise of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Communist dictatorship after the end of Romania’s monarchy. The new regime seized ...

In a moment of exaltation when US troops conquered Baghdad on April 10 last year, the US Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, proclaimed that “Saddam Hussein is now taking his rightful place alongside ...

Thirty-five years after the horrors of the Ceaușescu dictatorship were discovered in Romania, our reporters investigated one of the darkest episodes in the country's history – the squalid, state-run ...

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has announced his resignation following mounting pressure from populist opposition groups BUCHAREST, Romania -- Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announced his ...

BUCHAREST — Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announced his resignation on Monday following mounting pressure from populist opposition groups, two months after a top court annulled a ...

Bucharest: Romania's President Klaus Iohannis announced his resignation Monday from his office, with the aim of ending a political crisis that began after the Constitutional Court annulled the ...

Romania’s outgoing centrist president, Klaus Iohannis, resigned on Monday as opposition hard-right parliamentary parties planned to have him impeached. The European Union and NATO member state ...

Some of AUR’s leaders have defended the record of historical figures who served in the regime of Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu — an ally of Hitler — or were part of the fiercely ...

In 1966, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu introduced extreme policies to increase the country's birth rate. This led to the widespread abandonment of children, who ended up in orphanages in ...

Until 1989, when the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu was shot, exchanges with foreign countries were very difficult — so, in the 1990s, I had a lot of catching up to do to secure ...