Prime Minister Najib Miqati reportedly postponed a trip to Romania over the security tension in Lebanon and the large-scale consultations between rival parties to agree on an electoral draft-law.

An Nahar newspaper said Sunday that Miqati postponed his official visit to Bucharest that was set to be made on March 8.

A Romanian court has ordered the detention of an Israeli man and a Romanian woman accused of organizing a human egg-trafficking ring, prosecutors said on Thursday.

The two are the managers of the Bucharest private clinic Med New Life, judiciary sources told Mediafax news agency, without naming the pair.

Cancer patients in Romania on Monday called on the government to make the latest treatments for the disease affordable to end what they called an "inhumane situation".

The call by Romania's federation of cancer patient associations came on World Cancer Day.

Stray dogs crossing at crosswalks are being used by the Romanian traffic police in a new safety campaign to convince pedestrians to be more careful.

"If they can do it, then everyone can do it -- cross on pedestrian crossings!", says the short TV spot while showing several stray dogs using zebra and pelican crossings.

Three Romanians allegedly involved in a spectacular theft from a Dutch museum last year were caught while negotiating the sale of the stolen masterpieces, a Romanian newspaper reported Wednesday.

Romanian police and the prosecutor's office dealing with terrorism and organised crime (DIICOT) declined to comment on the report in Evenimentul Zilei.

President Michel Suleiman is scheduled on January 22 to visit Moscow where he will meet with his Russian counterpart and receive an award on his role in calling for dialogue and opening channels of communication between bickering parties, the Central News Agency reported.

CNA said Thursday that Suleiman's two-day visit comes following an official invitation sent by Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill I.

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Monday reappointed his arch-rival Victor Ponta as prime minister following elections, allaying fears of new political turmoil in one of EU's newest members.

Ponta's ruling center-left Social-Liberal Union (USL) won the December 9 parliamentary polls with 60 percent of the vote, well ahead of the center-right alliance supported by Basescu.

Romania's ambassador to Syria has left Damascus to relocate in Beirut due to security concerns, the Romanian Foreign Ministry said Sunday.

"The security situation in Syria is significantly deteriorating, including in central Damascus, which has led to a reduction of Romania's diplomatic activities," the ministry said.

The EU, IMF and World Bank said Tuesday that economic reforms agreed with the Romanian government, currently in political crisis, remain "broadly on track."

In a statement marking the end of a sixth review of progress under a three-year-old bailout program, the international lenders said Bucharest was going in the right direction despite "challenging conditions."

Romanians voted Sunday in a presidential impeachment referendum after weeks of political feuding that cast doubt on the democratic credentials of one of the EU's newest members.

Opinion polls show two-thirds of Romanians are expected to vote in favor of impeaching 60-year-old Traian Basescu, once one of the country's most popular politicians whose ratings plummeted amid austerity cuts in 2010.