Cannes winner praises Romania's films
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Cristian Mungiu, the first Romanian to win the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, says his country's recent movie output helped him win the award.
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ATHENS Romania underlined its superiority over the rest of the world by winning the women&#39;s gymnastics team gold Tuesday.
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates inaugurated a technical support center in Bucharest on Thursday, saying he was confident that Romania's recent accession to the European Union would boost foreign investment and the country's IT industry.
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British films triumphed at  the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday with veteran Ken Loach&#039;s  war-themed &quot;The Wind That Shakes the Barley&quot; winning the  coveted Palme d&#039;Or and newcomer Andrea Arnold picking up the  Jury Prize for &quot;Red Road.&quot;
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CANNES, France  - The Cannes Film Festival pulled it off in its 60th year, picking a popular winner from an eclectic competition lineup that had many more hits than misses.
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Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase claimed victory for his Social Democrats party (PSD) in Sunday's parliamentary elections following favorable showings in exit polls.
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Veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach overcame tough competition to win the coveted Palme d&#039;Or as the Cannes jury handed out honours here to films dealing with the brutalities of war.
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President Jacques Chirac has made U.S. film director Steven Spielberg a knight in the French Legion of Honour, hailing him as a great filmmaker committed to fighting hatred and intolerance.
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Romania won the women's artistic  gymnastics team gold medal at the Olympics Tuesday.
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Traian Basescu is the projected winner of Romania&#39;s presidential election, with 51.7 percent of the vote, the central election commission said Monday.
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Opinion polls give Prime Minister Adrian Nastase the edge as Romania chooses a new president on Sunday.
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Pop by the Golden Blitz pub during happy hour, and you just might run into the president of Romania. He'll be the one huddling with a confidant, hamming for the cameras, or dancing a friend around the room. Traian Basescu &#151; unbuttoned, unorthodox, some say unpresidential &#151; is shaking up the political scene in this former communist country accustomed to colorless, aloof leaders.
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This year's winners at France's most prestigious film festival were small and sometimes esoteric.
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Films about euthanasia, abortion and the hardships of immigrant life bagged the top prizes at the 17th European Film Awards on Saturday.
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Romania coach Anghel Iordanescu will warmly welcome back Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu after he has served any ban he might receive for failing a drugs test.
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Two-time Cannes winner Emir  Kusturica brought a happy ending to the film festival on  Saturday with a boisterous Balkan romp, breaking the mould for  a competition full of dark tales.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said it was a privilege to meet with Romanian veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts October 12 in Bucharest, and he predicted that years from now they would "look ...