October 6, 2015
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An agreement between Romania and the US was signed Monday in Washington meant to boost cooperation in preventing and fighting serious crimes. The agreement was signed at the meeting of the Romanian interior minister and deputy prime minister, Gabriel Oprea, with the American Attorney General Loretta Lynch. By concluding this agreement Romania complies with another technical criterion necessary for fulfilling the conditions of the Visa Waiver Program as part of the process of visa waiver for the Romanian citizens who travel to the US, minister Gabriel Oprea said. The document regulates, on a legal basis, cooperation, prevention, identification and investigation of serious crimes and of terrorist crimes and ensures the exchange of information between the relevant authorities of the two countries.
The Romanian foreign minister Bogdan Aurescu is participating today in Seville, Spain, in the “2015 Multinational Ballistic Missile Defense” conference organized by the US Missile Defense Agency. According to the Romanian Foreign Ministry, Bogdan Aurescu will highlight the strategic significance of the Romanian- American bilateral project in the field of defense. The Romanian official will meet with Vice Admiral James D. Syring as well as with other American high-ranking officials. The talks will focus on aspects related to the location of elements of the American missile defense shield in Romania, at the Deveselu base, that will become operational by the end of this year. The Romanian Foreign Ministry recalls that the previous edition of the conference took place in Bucharest and represented the recognition of Romania’s substantial contribution in the missile defense field.
The Russian army announced it bombarded on Monday several targets of the extremist movement the Islamic State, especially in the Damascus province, on the 6th day of its military intervention in Syria. These are the first strikes in the Syrian capital area. The Russian planes last week started their first strikes in Syria. Moscow says that these strikes target only Islamic State locations but Ankara and its western allies accuse Russia of focusing their attacks on the Syrian moderate forces, France press reports. The US and its allies denounce the fact that the Russian air strikes against the Syrian militants are “indiscriminate”, also targeting the opponents of the president Bashar al Assad who is supported by Moscow.
Romania’s national rugby team is meeting today in Leicester the Canadian team in the 3rd match of the World Cup Group D hosted by England and Wales. The Romanians lost the first 2 matches to France and Ireland. In turn Canada lost the first 3 matches at this edition of the World Cup to Ireland, Italy and France. Romania and Canada have so far met 5 times. The Canadians won the first matches while the Romanians the last three. In Group D the Romanian team will also play against Italy on Sunday.
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded this year to Japanese Takaaki Kajita and Canadian Arthur B. McDonald for their key contributions to the experiments which demonstrated that neutrinos change identities. This metamorphosis requires that neutrinos have mass. On Monday researchers William C. Campbell (Ireland), Satoshi Omura (Japan) and Youyou Tu (China) were awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworms parasites and also for the discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be announced Wednesday, the Prize in Literature on Thursday while the Peace Prize and the Prize in Economy will be announced on Friday and Monday respectively.
And now we have a special announcement. On November 1st RRI will mark Listeners’ Day. As usual we invite you to participate actively in our special program to be aired on that day. The topic of this year’s edition is devoted to refugees. We have all followed the news about the refugee crisis and have seen that hundreds of thousands of people risks their lives to leave their native countries in search of a better life in Europe. Their number has become a challenge for Europe, for the European values, the labor market, economic growth and integration into society. However no one can ignore that each refugee has his or her own personal story, which sometimes is very sad. Therefore Listeners’ Day on RRI invites you to share your opinion on the refugee issue and tell us the stories you know about refugees. We are looking forward to receiving your recorded or written answers, which you can send by e-mail or by means of Facebook and of the other social networks of RRI. Our address is RRI, 60-64 General Berthelot street, sector 1 Bucharest, PO BOX 111, postal code 010165, e-mail: engl@rri.ro.
