ROME  – When police arrested two Romanians for the rape of an Italian teenager in Rome, Il Giornale, a paper owned by the family of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, reported: “The Romanian beasts have been caught.” Three weeks later, prosecutors admitted the “beasts” could not be guilty — DNA tests …

Bucharest. Romania could slip into recession this year, when the economy could show a contraction of 1.0 percent to growth of 1.5 percent, Finance Minister Gheorghe Pogea said on Thursday. Romania is currently in talks with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union over a possible financial bailout.

Officials from the UN’s High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, and Romania on Thursday officially opened an emergency transit refugee centre in Timisoara, western Romania, to house refugees facing acute danger and in need of immediate evacuation. The centre, the first of its kind in the world, has been set up …