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FILE -This image taken from video shows Harry Tupan, Drents Museum director, speaking during a news conference, in front of an image of the ancient golden Cotofenesti helmet, at the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands, Jan. 25, 2025. (RTL Nieuws via AP, File)

Romanian treasures stolen from Dutch museum could still be intact, prosecutors say

Dutch prosecutors believe that a priceless golden helmet and other Romanian artifacts stolen from a small museum earlier this year have not been melted down and could still be recovered.
 
Romania's President Klaus Iohannis arrives in the symposium "The Idea of Europe" in Kaunas, Lithuania, Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

Romania’s Iohannis steps down, leaving caretaker president in charge until election rerun in spring

 
Romania's President Klaus Iohannis speaks during a joint media conference with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda at the President's palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announces resignation after pressure by populists

 
This undated image provided by the Drents Museum shows the golden Cotofenesti helmet. (Drents Museum via AP)

Dutch police arrest three suspects after the theft of a priceless golden helmet from Romania

 
This image taken from video shows Harry Tupan, Drents Museum director, speaking during a news conference, in front of an image of the ancient golden Cotofenesti helmet, at the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (RTL Nieuws via AP)

Theft in Netherlands of ancient golden helmet leaves Romania distraught

 

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General view of the Bulgarian-Greek border checkpoint of Kulata in Bulgaria, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, after European Union ministers agreed to let Bulgaria and Romania fully integrate into Europe's ID-check free travel zone, known as the Schengen area, by lifting land border controls from next year. ( AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

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A man waves the Romanian flag outside the closed voting station where Calin Georgescu, an independent candidate for president who won the first round of presidential elections, was supposed to vote, after Romania's Constitutional Court annulled the first round of presidential elections, in Mogosoaia, Romania, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

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Trucks queue next to a sign reading ''Republic of Bulgaria'', at Bulgarian-Greece border checkpoint Kulata, Bulgaria, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

EU lets Bulgaria and Romania fully integrate into Europe’s ID-check-free travel zone

 
People wave Romanian and European Union flags during a pro-European rally ahead of the country's Dec. 8 runoff presidential elections in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Romania’s pro-Western parties agree to form a majority government after political turmoil

 
Calin Georgescu, foreground, an independent candidate for president who won the first round of presidential elections gestures outside a closed voting station after Romania's Constitutional Court annulled the first round of presidential elections, in Mogosoaia, Romania, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romania’s far-right presidential candidate denounces canceled vote at closed polling station

 
Calin Georgescu, the independent candidate for presidency who won the first round of presidential elections, speaks after an interview with the Associated Press in Izvorani, Romania, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romanian prosecutors conduct raids linked to funding of Georgescu’s campaign

 
Calin Georgescu, the independent candidate for presidency who won the first round of presidential elections, speaks after an interview with the Associated Press in Izvorani, Romania, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romania’s top court annuls first round of presidential vote won by far-right candidate

 
Calin Georgescu, the independent candidate for presidency who won the first round of presidential elections, speaks after an interview with the Associated Press in Izvorani, Romania, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

European Union orders TikTok to preserve data related to Romanian election

 
Calin Georgescu, the independent candidate for presidency who won the first round of presidential elections, speaks after an interview with the Associated Press in Izvorani, Romania, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romania’s surprise front-runner says he’s not pro-Russia. But Romania alleges he had Moscow’s help

 
A gavel sits on the judges' table at the Constitutional Court in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Romanian constitutional court validates first round of presidential race after vote recount

 
In this photo released by the Romanian Emergency Services Harghita (ISU Harghita), firefighters search for survivors in a collapsed section of a boarding school in Odorheiul Secuiesc, Romania, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. The partial collapse of a boarding school in central Romania on Monday left one person dead and three injured, one seriously, authorities said. (Romanian Emergency Services - ISU Harghita via AP)

1 dead, 3 injured after boarding school partially collapses in central Romania

 
This handout photo released by Belgorod region governor Vyacheslav Gladkov's telegram channel on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, shows a damaged house destroyed by debris of a Ukrainian drone that was shot down by Russian air defense outside Belgorod, Russia. Three people, including a child, were killed in Russia's Belgorod region overnight after drone debris fell on a private house, setting it on fire, Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov reported Thursday. Two others have been hospitalized with severe injuries, the official said. (Belgorod region governor Vyacheslav Gladkov telegram channel via AP)

NATO member Romania finds more drone fragments on its soil after Russia again hits southern Ukraine

 
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, attends a welcoming ceremony at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace together with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy visits neighboring Romania to discuss security and boost ties

 
This image released by the Romanian Ministry of Defense (MAPN), shows a concrete shelter built by the army's engineering units in the village of Plauru, on the Danube river border between Romania and Ukraine on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. In the Danube village of Plauru, which is situated opposite Ukraine's Danube port of Izmail, Romania's defense ministry has erected prefabricated concrete shelters for residents, measuring 9.6 meters long, 2 meters wide inside, and 1.5 meter high (about 31 feet long, 6.5 feet wide and 5 feet high). (Romanian Defense Ministry MAPN via AP)

NATO member Romania finds fragments of drones near its border with Ukraine for the third time

 

NATO member Romania finds new drone fragments on its territory from war in neighboring Ukraine

 
A fireball lights the horizon on the Ukrainian shore of the Danube, seen from Chilia Veche in eastern Romania on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. The discovery of drone debris on Romanian territory this week has left some local residents fearing that the war in neighboring Ukraine could spread into their country, as Russian forces bombard Ukrainian ports just across the Danube River from NATO-member Romania. (Mircea Franc via AP)

Proximity of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Danube ports stirs fear in NATO member Romania

 
Romania's President Klaus Iohannis, left, shakes hands with Moldova's President Maia Sandu at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. Romania hosts the two-day Three Seas Initiative Summit and Business Forum, bringing together high ranking officials from twelve EU member states between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic seas. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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In this image released by the Romanian Defense Ministry, Defense Minister Angel Tilvar, left, speaks to a local resident in a Danube Delta village close to the Ukrainian border, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. Romania's defense minister said Wednesday that pieces apparently of a drone from Russia's recent attacks on Ukraine's port on the Danube River have been found on the territory of his country. Romania is a NATO member. (Romanian Defense Ministry via AP)

NATO member Romania says it has found drone pieces from Russian attacks in Ukraine on its territory