August 16, 2024
A roundup of the latest local and world news
Newsroom, 16.08.2024, 13:45
MEDAL Romanian gymnast Ana Maria Barbosu will today receive the bronze medal she won in the floor finals of the Olympic Games in Paris. Barbosu will receive the medal from Octavian Morariu, member of the International Olympic Committee for Romania and Mihai Covaliu president of the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee. We recall the Romanian won the medal on August 5th in Paris, but the US gymnast Jordan Chiles challenged the decision and got a higher mark, which allowed her to end up in the third position. Romania challenged the decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS), which ruled that the Romanian ended the competition on the third position, Sabrina Maneca-Voinea came fourth and Jordan Chiles fifth. The highest court of arbitration in sports, the CAS, has ruled down the US application to reopen the case.
PENSIONS 4.6 million Romanian pensioners are to receive higher pensions by the end of the month. According to the Minister of Labour and Social Solidarity, Simona Bucura-Oprescu, over 80% of the pensioners are to benefit from recalculated pensions. Roughly two million are to get their pensions higher by 100 Euros. For more than one million the rises will range between 500 and 1000 RON but 7,700 of them will see more than 3 thousand RON added to their initial pensions. Significant raises will see the people who worked over 40 years and didn’t benefit the correction index of the past years. According to Minister Bucura-Oprescu, no pension cuts will be operated, and people will enjoy their recalculated pensions in September.
DAY ‘Romania has been acknowledged and appreciated by its allies as a solid pillar of regional security and a major contributor to the process of strengthening NATO’s deterrence and defence posture on its eastern flank’ Romanian president Klaus Iohannis said in Constanta, on the Romanian Black Sea coast where he participated in the events dedicated to Navy Day celebrated on Thursday. According to Iohannis, although we are living in times marked by multiple security challenges, in the context of the war Russia is waging on Ukraine, Romania is today a sure and stable country and its citizens are defended and protected against any potential threat. Thousands of tourists and citizens of Constanta gathered to watch the biggest naval show of the year, which involved the participation of over two thousand sailors and servicemen from Romania and the armed forces deployed here. The event was also attended by 15 military vessels, coast guard patrol boats, F-16 fighters, surveillance aircraft belonging to the USA and France, Puma Naval helicopters and paratroopers.
WEATHER The National Administration of Meteorology has today issued fresh red, yellow and orange code alerts for hot weather in the entire Romanian territory except for two counties in the east. The extremely hot weather has been chiefly affecting the regions in the country’s west and south-west, where the Temperature-Humidity Index (THI) has exceeded the critical threshold of 80 units. The highs of the day are generally ranging between 30 and 38 degrees Celsius but higher values, between 39 and 41 degrees are being expected in the west, south-west and south. Thunderstorms are expected in the mountainous and hilly regions of Romania. According to meteorologists, the heat wave is going to last for the next couple of days engulfing the entire country, including its capital city whose inhabitants are bracing themselves for more hot days and tropical nights.
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