<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Romania</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/easterneurope/romania?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><description>Romania</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6226-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6226-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Mexico City Mayor Bailed Out by Rivals <br>   MEXICO CITY  --    A legal case shaking Mexico's political stability took a bizarre turn Wednesday when the country's most popular politician was threatened with jail and then rescued by rivals with a mere $180 bail payment.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bulgaria, Romania Advance in Effort To Enter the E.U.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51680-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51680-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ STRASBOURG, France, April 13  --  The European Parliament on Wednesday approved the entry of Bulgaria and Romania into the European Union in 2007, but it said both countries needed to make changes.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strapped Automaker Appeals NHTSA Rule on Air Bags]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42690-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42690-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The    National Highway Traffic Safety Administration  isn't usually in the business of letting companies off the hook on federal safety requirements -- or paying attention to affairs of state. But a fledgling car company has asked the agency to do both, pleading for regulatory leniency on the grounds of economic hardship, both for the company and for the country of Romania.]]></description><author> Cindy Skrzycki</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32607-2004Dec28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32607-2004Dec28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Romanian Parliament Gives Centrists Power <br>    BUCHAREST, Romania --  Romania's Parliament elected a centrist government on Tuesday packed with young, Western-educated academics vowing to speed up changes needed to bring the Balkan country into the European Union.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15194-2004Dec20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15194-2004Dec20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    Head of Nuclear Agency Assails Eavesdropping <br>   VIENNA --  Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, said that any U.S. monitoring of his telephone calls would be a violation of his privacy and that he had nothing to hide, as the International Atomic Energy Agency acknowledged that it long suspected it was being spied on.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romanian Opposition Figure Wins Presidency in Runoff]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60724-2004Dec13.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60724-2004Dec13.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BUCHAREST, Romania, Dec. 13 -- Romanian opposition candidate Traian Basescu scored an upset presidential victory on Monday and vowed to replace the ruling former communists with a reformist team in the run-up to the country's planned entry into the European Union in 2007.]]></description><author> Mirela Roman  and Radu Marinas</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada Invites Strippers and Gets Scrutiny]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35851-2004Dec4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35851-2004Dec4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Coiled around a brass pole on a barroom stage, clad only in towering stiletto heels, a 31-year-old Romanian woman named Veronica is helping to fill what has suddenly become Canada's most talked-about shortage: a scarcity of strippers.]]></description><author> Doug Struck</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romania Takes Its Stake In the Dracula Legend]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23687-2004Nov30.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23687-2004Nov30.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dracula is now quite in vogue in the country that had ferociously resisted association with the Hollywood bloodsucker.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romanian Candidate Calls for New Vote]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23339-2004Nov30.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23339-2004Nov30.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The leader of Romania's opposition party demanded Tuesday that the results of weekend presidential and parliamentary elections be annulled because of fraud and that a new vote be held.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romanian Election Ends With Likelihood of Runoff]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18550-2004Nov28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18550-2004Nov28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Exit polls showed no clear winner in the election Sunday to replace President Ion Iliescu, raising the likelihood of a runoff next month between a former ship's captain with a populist message and a political veteran.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Romania, Show Turns the E.U. Into A Laughing Matter]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A826-2004Nov20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A826-2004Nov20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[TV sitcom provided lessons in E.U. life in a country pub where the language is, to put it mildly, bawdy.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transforming Lives, One Wheelchair at a Time]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61418-2004Nov18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61418-2004Nov18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  During a trip to Romania in 1999,    Kenneth E. Behring , a soft-spoken jet-setter, helped an elderly Romanian into his first wheelchair. In that instant, two lives were transformed.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATO Considers Joint Mission in Afghanistan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30579-2004Oct13.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30579-2004Oct13.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A U.S.-backed proposal would merge Afghan peacekeeping and anti-terrorism operations under a joint command, despite criticism of the plan by Germany and France.]]></description><author> Josh White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumsfeld to Appeal for NATO Aid in Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28040-2004Oct12.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28040-2004Oct12.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other NATO defense ministers will meet in this small mountain resort on Wednesday to discuss increased training and contributions toward strengthening Iraqi security forces.]]></description><author> Josh White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romania Lobbies to Host U.S. Military Base]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23706-2004Oct11.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23706-2004Oct11.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As the U.S. military begins the lengthy process of reducing its presence in Europe and repositioning its forces around the globe, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld heard a pitch Monday for moving a contingent of U.S. troops to a dormant air base near the Black Sea port of Constanta.]]></description><author> Josh White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caveful of Clues About Early Humans]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34116-2004Sep19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34116-2004Sep19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Field research" projects often require scientists to endure discomfort and danger to get where they need to be, but not many can trump this summer's expedition to what may be the world's most inaccessible human fossil site, a cave in the foothills of Romania's Carpathian Mountains.]]></description><author> Fredric Heeren</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[All That Glitters Is Silver]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8807-2004Aug17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8807-2004Aug17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With their two stars faltering at critical moments, the heavily favored U.S. women's gymnastics team wins silver, behind the gold medal performance of Romania.]]></description><author> Liz Clarke</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grabbing Hold of Silver]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5819-2004Aug16.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5819-2004Aug16.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The United States men's gymnastics team wins the silver Monday, taking home a medal for the first time since the boycotted 1984 Games.]]></description><author> Amy Shipley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13572-2004Jun28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13572-2004Jun28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Vatican Releases Letter Critical Of Stance Toward Jews in WWII <br>   VATICAN CITY --  The Vatican, in its latest effort to rebut charges it did little to stop the Nazi persecution of Jews in World War II, on Monday released a 1943 letter from a bishop complaining that the church was helping too many Jews.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53283-2004May24.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53283-2004May24.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/romania</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 May 2005 5:02:46 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Flooding Kills Scores In Dominican Republic <br>   SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic --  At least 76 people, nearly half of them children, were killed when a rain-swollen river burst its banks and swept away dozens of homes in the western Dominican Republic on Monday, officials said.]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>