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8 august 2024

Art and Geopolitics: La Scala in Milan Opens Season with a Creation Banned in the USSR

The season of the famous La Scala theater in Milan opened with the presentation of the opera "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk Region", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich and considered one of the most controversial creations of the 20th century.

Top European universities come to Bucharest: international masters and MBA fair

Prestigious universities from the Netherlands, France and the UK will be present on December 11, in Bucharest, at the Masters & MBA Fair, an international fair dedicated to masters and MBA programs, organized by IntegralEdu.

PHOTO: B-21 Raider, the sixth-generation stealth bomber during testing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. (Photo source: facebook / United States Air Force)

The US is investing over 900 billion dollars in an unprecedented military apparatus

The US is preparing a colossal allocation for defense: over 900 billion dollars, money that will be spent on the development of hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, quantum technology, directed energy, military autonomy, the construction of ships, aircraft and ammunition, the consolidation of the nuclear triad, strengthening the US position in the Indo-Pacific, the revitalization of the defense industry and the expansion of military support for Ukraine and Israel, according to the National Defense Authorization Act 2026 bill, published by the US Congress, with two weeks left until the end of the session.

ACUE: Eliminating the gas cap is inevitable

• Romania is unprepared for gas market liberalization

Energy distributors support the elimination, from April 1, 2026, of the price cap on natural gas, but point out that, in order to reduce the impact of undesirable developments on the wholesale market, solutions must be found to protect consumers, said Daniela Dărăban, executive director of the Association of Energy Utilities Companies (ACUE), yesterday, at an informal meeting with the media.

Digital shipments account for more than two-thirds of global services exports

From Amazon.com's massive cloud services business to Spotify's streaming audio subscriptions, digital exports totaled $4.8 trillion worldwide last year.

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European funds to expand palliative services

Deep crisis: the "Save the Children" appeal to combat infant mortality

Government unlocks hundreds of positions in new nurseries

Tokyo, apocalyptic seismic scenario: 18,000 victims and losses of over 500 billion dollars

Netflix-Warner Bros. deal sparks reactions at the highest level

NATO Innovation Fund - modest investments behind a costly apparatus

The challenges of a fragile mandate for Ciprian Ciucu, the new mayor general of the Capital

Ciprian Ciucu won the by-elections for the position of mayor general of the Capital, with 36.16% (211,562 votes) of the total votes cast - 585,133.

The doctorate is easy, but the baccalaureate confuses us

There is a national sport that we have been practicing with enthusiasm for decades: finding short paths to performance. We are masters at drawing ideal routes on paper, in which the future is bright, opponents are accessories, and qualifications...

Corruption scandal at NATO top: Elbit Systems blocked in the middle of the Romanian Army equipment process

NATO's Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has decided to suspend the Israeli company Elbit Systems from all new tenders and freeze some ongoing contracts, after serious allegations of corrupt practices emerged, according to an article...

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Romanian Post - accelerated modernization of offices and investments of 4 million euros in logistics

UN warns: Middle East and North Africa warming twice as fast as global average

Study: COVID-19 vaccines have not increased mortality

SK Group's Chey Tae-won: "AI industry not in a bubble”

Global Semiconductor Industry - Market Cap Over $12 Trillion

• US Companies Lead the Market, With a Total Valuation of Over $7 Trillion

Transelectrica shareholders decide whether to sanction the abuses documented by the Court of Auditors

• The General Shareholders' Meeting at Transelectrica is scheduled to take place today • The agenda has been supplemented with two points requesting that the shareholders take the necessary legal steps to hold the shareholder's...

FIFA is pressuring European clubs to pay their debts to Russia, despite international sanctions

An investigation by the journalistic platform Follow the Money shows that FIFA is forcing clubs to pay arrears to Russian teams, even when international sanctions make payments legally impossible.

Polling stations - empty

Ciprian Ciucu, the new general mayor of the Capital

Romania joins the laser technology elite: construction of the High Power Optics Center in Măgurele has begun

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Donald Trump's favorite to head NASA promises a quick return of American astronauts to the moon

Education Minister: Teachers Are Responsible for Functional Illiteracy Only When the Child is Constantly Present at School

UNESCO warns of AI expansion

Follow The Money: CE Oltenia's false reporting saves the company 250 million euros

Bucharesters vote, politicians adrift: no new candidate, same crisis of credibility

The local by-elections for the position of Mayor General of the Capital represent yet another proof of the incompetence of the political class, which, a year after the disastrous experiment of Călin Georgescu and over six months after the...

Partial local elections: Marcel Ciolacu wants to become the head of the Buzău County Council

Study: Owning a smartphone at age 12 increases risk of depression, obesity and insufficient sleep

MEC awarded medal-winning students at international and regional olympiads

Health Minister: ”Introducing contaminated water into the centralized network would be an unprecedented epidemiological incident”

Argentina prepares new mega-trial in Diego Maradona death case

MApN has completed the procurement procedure for the HISAR light corvette

The most profitable companies in the world; Technology - at the top of the list

The ranking of the most profitable companies in the world in 2025 highlights a strong concentration of earnings in the fields of technology, finance and energy, according to visualcapitalist.com which, based on data from FinanceCharts.com, has...

Natural gas bill to increase by 5% from April 1, 2026

The natural gas bill will increase by 5% for the final consumer starting April 1, 2026, after the capping scheme ends on March 31, announced Laurenţiu Urluescu, president of the Romanian Energy Suppliers Association (AFEER), yesterday during an...

FIFA to reveal full 2026 World Cup schedule in global broadcast

US and Japanese Investors Prefer Domestic Investments

Unity Day - the day of the division of the sovereignist movement

The sovereignist movement split on the Great Unity Day, that is, on the National Day, right in Alba Iulia.

Greece maps its active seismic faults for the first time

Romania renegotiates with the European Space Agency: contributions reached 250 million lei per year

Euro-digital, blocked by the banking sector and the European Parliament

The euro-digital currency is having a hard time taking off, and this is displeasing to Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, who pushed it to the forefront of the European agenda, according to a journalistic investigation...

Russian researchers create reusable polymer film that absorbs oil from water surface

Miss Universe in the middle of an international scandal with allegations of fraud and drug trafficking

Tattoos, under the microscope of science: worrying effects on the immune system

Mexico joins the league of digital superpowers with a new supercomputer

Education Minister reassures the system: "Measures regarding pension-salary cumulation will not affect teachers"

Real estate bubble risk in Miami, Tokyo and Zurich

Donald Trump wants to bring the US into the era of AI-driven science - the Genesis Mission program

"Genesis Mission”, this is the name of the presidential executive order signed on November 24 by President Donald Trump, which established the plan for the total reorganization of American science under the leadership of Artificial...

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Budget deficit target for 2025 - maintained at 8.4% of GDP

• 5.7% of GDP - budget deficit at the end of October • Deficit after the first 10 months, 0.5% lower than that recorded in 2024 for the same period • Government prepares the second budget rectification • Beneficiaries of the second rectification are:...

Israeli army beheading: despite knowing about Hamas' aggression plan, IDF leadership remained passive

There were dismissals at the top of the Israeli military this week, ordered by General Eyal Zamir, the new Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

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