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21 august 2025

New Moon Discovered by James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified a new moon of the planet Uranus, bringing the number of known moons of the icy giant to 29. The object, provisionally named S/2025 U1, is just 10 kilometers across and is the fourth moon discovered from a distance around this planet.

Intel at a crossroads: how the US government wants to save the chip giant

Intel, the American company that defined the standards of the semiconductor industry for decades, is now at a critical moment in its existence, according to an article published by Tagesschau, the news website of the German television ARD, which also claims that from the glory years when it dominated the microprocessor market to the current collapse of its stock value, the path of the American giant has been marked by a lack of rapid adaptation to new technological directions.

ING Belgium under investigation in the investigation into former European Commissioner Reynders

ING Belgium, the Belgian subsidiary of Dutch banking group ING Groep NV, is being investigated as part of an ongoing investigation into money laundering allegations against former European Union commissioner Didier Reynders, who denies the alleged crime, Reuters reports.

Justice awaits its clients. (Illustration designed by MAKE)

The passivity of justice in the Georgescu and Şoşoacă cases - a recipe for undermining democracy

The conclusions of the most recent report on human rights compliance - a document published on August 12 by the State Department - cast a shadow over the decision of the Constitutional Court of December 6, 2024, to annul last year's presidential elections, but show that in our country there are problems regarding compliance with the legislation prohibiting the denial of the Holocaust and the promotion or use of symbols representing fascist, racist or xenophobic ideologies or symbols associated with the nationalist, extremist, fascist and anti-Semitic Legionary movement from the interwar period, a political party and a paramilitary movement from the World War II era, aligned with the Nazis.

The Ministry of Finance and the Bucharest Stock Exchange join a project to integrate regional capital markets

• Attracting international investors and promoting dual listings are among the initiative's objectives, according to the Ministry of Finance

• A representative of the Ministry will sign a Memorandum of Understanding early next week in Zagreb

• Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and North Macedonia are the countries involved in the initiative, the MoF announced

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Motorcyclists become ambassadors of life: campaign for organ donation

Dialogue between students and the Ministry of Education on the fiscal-budgetary crisis

Asia is becoming the new powerhouse in nuclear energy

VIDEO game industry in decline? What's behind the Gamescom festival

Morocco breaks monthly temperature record in Western Sahara

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Two students from Iaşi, awarded at the World Mental Arithmetic Olympiad in Dubai

Two students from Iaşi, Matias Aneculaesei (9 years old) and Mihnea Mahu (8 years old), climbed the podium at the international competition Smart Kids - World Mental Arithmetic and English Olympiad 2025, held in Dubai.

Revolutionary mRNA vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease

EU reaffirms support for Ukraine and seeks solutions for peace

Support for Ukraine remains unwavering, and diplomatic, political and economic pressure on Moscow will continue until it is determined to accept real negotiations and a just peace solution, European leaders agreed at yesterday's online...

Armatura - declining revenues and loss in the middle of the year

• The company's shares were suspended from trading by the BVB, following a decision to dissolve the company taken in an EGEA based on incorrect information

Donald Trump proclaims "six wars stopped", but reality contradicts him

• Donald Trump claimed at the Washington summit that he stopped six wars in six months • The reality of the Israel-Iran, Armenia-Azerbaijan, DR Congo-Rwanda, India-Pakistan, Cambodia-Thailand and Egypt-Ethiopia conflicts shows otherwise

Education unions ask Prime Minister Bolojan to retract claims about teaching quota

PNRR: Government suspends funding and terminates contracts without real progress

Peace in Ukraine remains just a promise

• Trilateral negotiations in Washington ended without any concrete results • EU leaders have 10 days to establish the security guarantees that the West will offer Ukraine after concluding a peace agreement with Russia • To obtain assurances from the...

Health: Patients can report abusive referrals to private practices

Spain on fire: third week of heatwave and devastating fires

Spain continues to face a critical situation, already entering its third week of heatwave alert, while wildfires are devastating several regions in the northwest and west of the country.

Ministry of Education reduces the risk of penalty by renegotiating PNRR projects

Education starts the school year with guaranteed salaries and scholarships, despite the fiscal-budgetary crisis

PNRR: PSD supports the elimination of projects without financing contracts

OPINIONHow the reform of magistrates pensions became an exercise in political image

Financial markets, no reaction after Trump-Putin meeting and ahead of peace talks

Free public transport in Geneva due to pollution concerns

Bucharest becomes the world capital of poetry

The capital hosts the 15th edition of the Bucharest International Poetry Festival (FIPB), between September 15 and 21, which opens at the Central University Library "Carol I".

Ministry of Health and UNSAR, partnership for a national prevention and screening strategy

The Ministry of Health and the National Union of Insurance and Reinsurance Companies of Romania (UNSAR) held a strategic meeting, aimed at laying the foundations for the first National Strategy for screening and prevention by pathologies for the...

Europe under siege by heatwave: two decades of records and tragedies

The extreme temperatures recorded in recent days confirm an increasingly worrying phenomenon: the multiplication and intensification of heatwaves in Europe, a direct effect of climate change, according to scientists.

Orsova Shipyard halved its profitability

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin plot the "new world order" (Photo source: http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76879/photos/81270)

Euractiv: Beijing and Kremlin's global hybrid war threatens Western democracy

Faced with threats from Beijing and the Kremlin, the West is losing ground because it reacts chaotically, without a common strategy and with fragile political systems, warns Chris Kremidas-Courtney, senior researcher at the European Policy Centre...

SME Romania warns: ”Increasing the share capital of LLCs to 8,000 lei will block entrepreneurship”

PNRR, reconfigured: Bolojan sends projects to Anghel Saligny and PNDL, PSD opposes

Transilvania Broker de Asigurare recovers first quarter loss and turns profitable

The profitability of Transilvania Broker de Asigurare (TBK) decreased drastically in the first half of the year, from 2.3 million lei in the first six months of 2024 to 0.05 million lei in the period January-June 2025, even though revenues...

China announces countermeasures against two EU banks

• UAB Urbo Bankas and AB Mano Bankas will no longer be able to carry out transactions with individuals from the Asian country

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How a Trump-Putin deal could change the economic and political map of the world

In a world where what political leaders establish today is no longer valid on the same day, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are meeting tomorrow in Alaska, officially to establish a plan to end the conflict in Ukraine, a plan that, as the...

Drought hits Europe: over half of soils affected, absolute record for the last decade

Ministry of Education launches public consultation on the 2026 national exam calendars

National warning: phone fraud is on the rise

The National Cyber Security Directorate (DNSC) warns that phone fraud attempts, known as "vishing”, have increased in recent times. Cybercriminals are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to appear credible and gain access to...

Nothing new in Eastern football

Local football has given us new proof that it is very far from the professionalism long proclaimed on all corners of the field.

Agroland Business System acquired a land plot for the development of the Agroland Food division

Agroland Business System, a company listed on the AeRO Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), has acquired a 21-hectare plot of land, located in the vicinity of the Mihăileşti poultry platform, for the development of the Agroland Food...

How much is the war in Ukraine really costing? Official data and expert estimates

The total costs of the conflict in Ukraine so far are enormous, but so far they do not exceed 15% of the estimated value of the country's mineral resources, a value that experts estimate at $11.5 trillion.

Oil Terminal's revenue and profit down

Russia's victory propaganda, contradicted by reality

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was claiming Russia's victory in Ukraine two days ago. According to the website hirado.hu, which quotes the public news agency MTI, Viktor Orban said in an interview with the YouTube channel...