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A Romanian court has placed one of the country's best-known transplant surgeons under supervision, after he was accused of embezzling public funds for 17 years.

Prosecutors detained Mihai Lucan and his son, Ciprian Lucan, last Wednesday. The court rejected their request to investigate them in detention.

The image of Romania as a country whose main export is its own people belies the fact that the country's economy is racing ahead at rates most EU countries could only dream about, the UK Guardian wrote in a glowing tribute on Saturday.

Turkish national basketball team lost 80-74 to Serbia on Sept. 4 night in a EuroBasket 2017 Group D match played in Istanbul.        

Romanian media outlets are desperately chasing one of US President Trump's sons, who has reportedly been spotted on a private hunting trip in the countryside.

The chase started on Wednesday after the mayor of the southern town of Giurgiu said one of the Trump sons might be on a hunting trip in Singureni, a large private domain, 40 kilometres from the capital, Bucharest.

Olympic champion Eleftherios Petrounias claimed gold in the European Championships in Cluj, Romania in the rings. Petrounias scored 15,433 points. It is the third gold in a row for the champion.

Inspired by the legend of Dracula, the fictional vampire from Bram Stoker's horror story, organisers of the Untold music festival in Transylvania have launched a campaign to encourage blood donation in Romania.

Music Festival Encourages People to Donate Blood|Photo by Untold Festival 

Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF) opened on Friday evening with a record number of spectators, being the gala with the most tickets sold of all the 14 editions - 2,500, according to the organisers.

Thousands of Romanians protested in cities across the country on Saturday, calling on the government and parliament to find ways to better protect the country's forests against illegal loggers.

Over 3,000 people gathered in Bucharest, while thousands also demonstrated in the Transylvanian cities of Cluj and Brasov, and in Timisoara, Iasi and Galati.

"We want to continue to represent the interests of our community, meaning increased rights in education, justice and local administration," said Kelemen Hunor, who was reelected as president of the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians, UDMR at the weekend.

Hungary's new Consul-General in Cluj-Napoca, Mile Lajos, on Wednesday told a press conference that he would start a campaign to determine as many as possible locals of the six Romanian counties assigned to the Cluj-based consulate to seek Hungarian citizenship.