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  • Seattle nurse helps Ukraine refugees at Romanian border as crisis grows

    A nurse from Seattle is on the frontlines of the Ukrainian refugee crisis, helping those who are trying to flee to neighboring Romania — a country which he fled as a refugee in 1989. Ben Sterciuc, a geriatric specialist who runs Vital Solutions — a nonprofit organization he founded 10 years ago to provide accessible health care to impoverished communities in East Africa and Pakistan — is on the ground at the Romanian border. He spoke to Yahoo News about the current situation there.

  • London retains title of most popular city for work

    London appeals most to those around the world that are highly educated and working in digital or professional roles.

  • Google Stadia is now available in eight more European countries

    Players in Portugal, Switzerland and Slovakia among others have access starting today.

  • New Monolith Mysteriously Pops Up In Romania

    Officials are investigating after a similar structure vanished in Utah.

  • Cancer patient in Romania dies after catching fire during surgery

    A 66-year-old woman in Romania was accidentally set on fire during surgery for pancreatic cancer.

  • Rescuers try to save nearly 15,000 sheep from sea after cargo ship overturns off Romania

    The Queen Hind vessel, carrying thousands of sheep, overturned at the port of Midia, Romania.

  • Police arrest 17 people suspected of trafficking women into UK and forcing them to work as prostitutes

    Police arrested 17 people after dawn raids at addresses in Redbridge, Havering, Barking and Dagenham, Newham, Brentwood and Tower Hamlets in east London.

  • Celtic manager Neil Lennon fumes as Scottish champions crash out of Champions League

    Celtic, after drawing 1-1 in Romania, led twice on the night but fell to a 4-3 defeat at Celtic Park.

  • HBO's 'Hackerville' cybercrime series debuts in the US

    HBO is releasing Hackerville, its German series about a talented Romanian teenage hacker, to American audiences. The show follows German cybercrime investigator Liza Metz (Anna Schumacher) who is sent back to her hometown in Romania to investigate a major hack against a German bank. Lisa teams up with a local cop, Adam Sandor (Andi Vasluianu) to hunt down the criminals. Meanwhile, a local teenager and talented hacker, Cipi, (Voicu Dumitras) is being scouted by both the police and those with more nefarious motives. Shot in both Romania and Germany, Hackerville was HBO Europe's first co-international production. For American audiences, the network is only releasing the series on HBO Now, HBO Go and HBO On Demand.

  • England all but out of U21 Euros after incredible final 15 minutes against Romania

    Aidy Boothroyd’s side suffered a 4-2 defeat to effectively end their hopes of qualification from group C.

  • US convicts Romanians over scheme that hijacked 400,000 computers

    Two Romanian residents are about to face prison time for a particularly large digital crime spree. A federal jury has found Radu Miclaus and Bogdan Nicolescu guilty for a scheme that stole credit card data and other sensitive info by hijacking over 400,000 computers located primarily in the US. The duo reportedly developed custom malware in 2007 that would pose as a legitimate organization (such as the IRS, Norton or Western Union) and infect PCs when users opened an attachment. From then on, the perpetrators stole data and money by injecting fake websites (such as bogus eBay auctions), mining cryptocurrency in the background and amassing contact information that could be used to infect more targets.

  • How the founder of Anastasia Beverly Hills immigrated to U.S. and changed the brow market: ‘Nobody paid attention to eyebrows’

    Like many people with dreams of coming to America, Anastasia Beverly Hills founder Anastasia Soare believed that this was where she wanted to make her mark. “This is the country that it doesn’t matter where you are from,” she tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “You will have a chance to do what you want.” Soare was born in Romania, where, in the late ’70s and ’80s, she says that life “wasn’t that good.” She continues, “After 7 o’clock we’ll have no electricity — in the winter, no heating. You couldn’t buy bread, matches, milk for your kid. This is not human.” As soon as Soare was able to, she would mentally escape the challenges of life in Romania by diving into art school, reading a lot and studying. “That was the only thing, the only way out for us,” she says. “You couldn’t have too many dreams because in the Communist regime, everything was cookie-cutter.” Thanks to her husband’s job as a ship captain, they were able to find a way to leave Romania. “He went to American Embassy, asked for political asylum,” she says. “It was very difficult.” They landed in Los Angeles in 1989, but adjusting to life in the U.S. was hard for Soare. “I think for the first six months I cried every day.,” she recalls “ The fact that I didn’t speak English I think was the most difficult thing for me.” Luckily, another Romanian immigrant whom Soare met helped her get a job at the beauty salon where she worked in Beverly Hills. “That was almost like a door that was open for me,” Soare says. It wasn’t long before Soare noticed something different about the beauty routines of American women. “I realized that nobody paid attention to eyebrows,” she recalls. “In Romania, it was the norm. I thought, ‘This is Hollywood. We work with the most incredible, beautiful models and actors and this is important. I remember my art teacher saying that if you want to draw a portrait and you want to express an emotion, you just change eyebrows.” So in 1992, she decided to rent a room in a salon in Beverly Hills and start her own business. “It was difficult — I’m not saying it’s easy, but I think I got support from everybody.” Soare eventually patented her own technique for shaping eyebrows, based on the ancient Greeks’ and Leonardo da Vinci’s  “golden ratio,” and according to people’s bone structure and natural brow shape. After building her reputation, she started working with supermodels such as Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell, and other celebrities, including Jennifer Lopez. But she she says going on the Oprah Show was “a game-changer," noting, “She’s the most considerate person." Soare struck gold with her eyebrow-shaping business, and is now one of the wealthiest self-made entrepreneurs in the U.S., according to Forbes. But Soare says she’s learned so much from many of her clients along the way. “I’m surrounded by a lot of women and they really inspire me every day,” she says.

  • Facebook removes fake accounts stoking political tension in UK

    Facebook just cracked down on more fake accounts in the UK, and this time it was a relatively sophisticated scheme. The social network has pulled 137 bogus accounts (including for Instagram), groups and pages for "coordinated inauthentic behavior" that tried to play two sides of the political debate in the UK. The perpetrators posed as both far-right and anti-far-right activists and spread divisive rhetoric about immigration, racism, religion, free speech rights and LGBT issues, among other contentious topics. If that sounds familiar, it should -- just like the US saw in 2016, the culprits were trying to stoke political tensions under the guise of rallying support.

  • Romanian designers accuse Dior of plagiarising their traditional dress

    The luxury fashion house came under fire for allegedly copying traditional Romanian dress.

  • Contractor hoped to sell social media surveillance to oppressive regimes

    Western companies are still interested in selling surveillance tools to governments that could easily abuse them. The Intercept claims to have leaked documents suggesting that Circinus, the defense contractor run by Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy, planned to sell social media surveillance tools to governments still known for suppressing free speech, including Tunisia and the UAE. Circinus' tools harvest sites like Facebook and Twitter in a bid to find and identify "detractors" -- that is, political dissidents. While the software only sifts through public data, it's likely this information would be used to punish critics who could otherwise count on a degree of anonymity.

  • ‘Cold-hearted’ killer jailed for 28 years for stabbing his former girlfriend to death in a jealous rage

    Genu Armeanu lay in wait for Elisabeta Lacatusu at her family home in Ilford, east London.

  • Thousands participate in gay pride parades across Europe

    Thousands of people took to the streets to support LGBT rights in cities across Europe on Saturday, with marchers waving rainbow flags and condemning discrimination in all its forms.

  • This Holocaust Survivor Noticed A Detail In Charlottesville You Might Have Missed

    “You see something like this, you know, it brings back memories and I’m concerned about what could happen in this country.”

  • Turkish NBA Player Detained In Romania Says His Passport Was Canceled For Political Beliefs

    Enes Kanter is an outspoken critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

  • A local's guide to Transylvania: The region's best kept travel secrets

    There's so much more to my dear Transylvania than Dracula and blood sucking vampires. This region of my country is beautiful, its people are kind, the landscapes are breathtaking, the food is a dream, there are amazing festivals and, well, you should just see it for yourself.