Romania's top defense body on Thursday approved a U.S. proposal to place anti-ballistic missile interceptors in the country as part of a revamped American missile shield, the president said. Romania will host "ground capabilities to intercept missiles" that will increase its national security and go into operation starting ...

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's top defense body approved a plan by Washington on Thursday to deploy interceptor missiles in the Black Sea state as part of a missile shield to protect Europe, President Traian Basescu said. The announcement came unexpectedly and Basescu gave few details on the project. But it appeared to be part of the revamped approach taken by ...

A poet who has led the way in publishing secret police files from Romania's communist past is being denied further access to the information. The government says Mircea Dinescu will be removed from the National Council for the Study of the Archives of Romania's former Securitate secret police because ...