Bucharest becomes crowded capital
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The crowding began when dictator Nicolae Ceausescu set out to industrialize Romania overnight by forcing peasants into factories and making them live in tiny apartments in the capital.
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ROMANIA turned its back on the countryâs communist past yesterday with the unexpected election of Traian Basescu, the reformist Mayor of Bucharest, as its next President.
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The annual event draws thousands of tourists from across the city and beyond â but also spawns traffic jams and parking problems.
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One of the world's biggest carnival celebrations opens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale rattled eastern Romania's Vrancea region and was also felt in the country's capital Bucharest, the national seismological institute and an AFP correspondent at ...
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The Indian capital could not get enough of Sting.
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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 ...Comment
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Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Edinburgh to kick off the world's largest arts festival.
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Romania underlined their superiority over the rest of the field by storming to the women&#39;s gymnastics team gold at the Olympic Games on Tuesday.
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BEIRUT: Tens of thousands of people flocked to Baabda Presidential Palace Sunday, in a huge and popular show of support for President Emile Lahoud over his three-year mandate extension that was decided by Parliament on Friday.
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The kickoff of the Rolling Stones' European tour opened to rave reviews, a big crowd and a massive traffic jam.
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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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Up to two million people were killed or persecuted by the communists in Romania, an official report says.
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Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu, the head of Romania&#39;s two-party main opposition alliance, beat Prime Minister Adrian Nastase in a run-off election to become the Balkan nation&#39;s third president and lead it into the European Union.
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Thousands of people join in with carnival celebrations in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
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Manassas took a major step this week toward expanding and boosting its downtown.
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French President Jacques Chirac is welcomed by Romanian President Traian Basescu at the Cotroceni Palace, the Romanian Presidency headquarters, in Bucharest.Comment