News archive of June 2019

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday the United States did not plan to impose sanctions on Ankara for buying Russian defense systems, after the US president said Turkey had not been treated fairly over the contract.

Bulgaria's Ombudsman Maya Manolova said that a discussion will be held in her office on June 28 about the machine voting at the forthcoming local government elections, reports BNT. 

The most famous painting in the world, Mona Lisa, will be relocated while the Louvre's salon in which she is exhibited is under repair, France Press Agency reported.

Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece will be transported less than 100 paces away to neighbouring Galerie Médicis on the night of July 16, said museum director Jean-Luc Martinez.

The United States on June 28 imposed sanctions on the son of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for serving in his father's "illegitimate regime."

U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping struck a trade war truce on June 29, as Washington vowed to hold off on further tariffs and declared trade negotiations with China "back on track."

Bucharest, June 29 /Agerpres/ - President Klaus Iohannis stated, on Saturday, that in Romania there was a parliamentary majority that "worked against Romanians" and that had as an objective "the subjugation of the judiciary to the interests of some persons".

Europe was bracing itself for a sweltering on June 29 as a deadly heatwave across the continent has sparked record-breaking temperatures, large blazes and pollution peaks.

Bucharest, June 29 /Agerpres/ - Interim chair of the Social Democrat Party (PSD), Viorica Dancila, stated, on Saturday at the PSD congress, that Romania is "not a second-rate country" nor is it "powerless" country. Dancila, who is running to be chair of the PSD, pleaded, in her speech, for a "social Europe" in which Romania matters. "Let us not be afraid of change!

U.S. President Donald Trump said there will be no U.S. sanctions imposed on Turkey over its decision to purchase Russian missile defense systems, Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said on June 29, hours after the two leaders held bilateral talks.

Bucharest, June 29 /Agerpres/ - The chairman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE), Calin Popescu Tariceanu, has launched, on Saturday, at the extraordinary congress of the Social Democrat Party (PSD), a plea for the designation of a joint candidate for the Presidency of Romania.