Ioana Stoica

Romania's team members won three gold medals and one silver medal in the first edition of the Physics Balkan Olympiad, carried out in Thessaloniki, July 14-18, 2019, informs a press release of the National Education Ministry (MEN).

Up to half a million Romanians are expected to take part in a three-day pilgrimage to a saint's shrine, which started on Friday.

Believers are lining up in queues stretching for miles to worship the relics of St Parascheva, which lie in the northeastern town of Iasi.

The Romania's Orthodox Church believes the saint's relics perform miracles.