Ovidiu Cornea is a Cluj-based freelance contributor to RFE/RL's Romanian Service.
Bucharest says around 260 Romanians or their family members are pleading for evacuation from Gaza as Israeli bombardments continue and a humanitarian catastrophe unfolds more than two weeks after Hamas's attack on Israeli civilians.
King Charles III has been visiting Romania, his first trip abroad after being crowned on May 6. The British sovereign spent most of his five-day trip in his beloved Transylvania, where his eco-activism has paved the way for a landmark law preserving Romania's trees.
A Ukrainian war refugee and mother of two in Romania helps keep an all-volunteer workshop running at home in Cherkasy to produce bulletproof vests and other items for Ukraine's defenders.
