H.E Mr. Simon Mordue, Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of the European Union Council, met with H.E Mr. Abdulrahman bin Mohammed Al-Khulaifi, Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the Kingdom of Belgium and Head of Mission of the State of Qatar to the European Union and NATO.

During the meeting, they reviewed the cooperation relations between the State of Qatar and the European Union, developments in the Middle East and the Iranian nuclear file.

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When I told my sister Livia, a teacher in Craiova, that I was coming home at the beginning of March, she replied that I had chosen the most unfortunate moment possible. "We have notice to vacate the cellars in the block for shelter, in case of attack. Stay there because you're fine!", she closed the conversation. She thought I was listening to her.

Three days later, we land at the airport in Otopeni, at midnight. Ioana, a neighbor, was waiting for me. "Hey, you chose when to come!", he said to me instead of "You're welcome", on the way to the parking lot.

Then, in the morning , Ioana 's mother, who lives upstairs in my Victorian house on Pia ?a Roman? , called me to the window. A gesture that dates from the time when I lived there more than twenty years ago , from the time when I was a special reporter at the National newspaper and then, at Antena 1 , for the "Prezentul Simplu" show. Usually, my upstairs neighbor made a comment about a broadcast report, or about what else she had read written by me. Now, in a whisper , he said to me, "Hey, Dana, don't you know what's going on here?"

And I knew. "Well that's why I came. Let me lend a helping hand and document what is happening. I got angry when some colleagues from the press here told me that they don't think the war is real, that the images broadcast by television are not from the scene . That they are rigged. I want to get involved.”

A few hours later, I set up with Ioana at the Help Center for Refugees at the North Station. "Just see how crowded it is," said Ioana, juggling among the cars as I closed my eyes in fear . We signed up for volunteers, they gave us a yellow jacket, and five minutes later, they sent us on our first mission. "A train with refugees is coming . Go to the platform and identify the refugees, help them with their luggage, and bringthey are here, at the Center", someone from the guard instructed us. We looked at each other and took her to the platform. "But aren't they training us?" asked Ioana, in her somewhat lazy but resonant voice. "I could see," I told him. "What would be so hard?" I answered, not believing what I was saying either.

In an interview granted to cotidianul.ro , Dana Maria Dezotell recounts her journey in the "Promised Land", which began with a tragedy and continued with remarkable performances in a field where few succeed.

Reporter: Let's start with your arrival in this country. 12 years ago, you married an American citizen, a few months later you became pregnant with your first child, but fate was cruel to your new family after your husband lost his life in a tragic car accident . She didn't even get to see her son and you were left alone, two months pregnant, without money, without a stable home and without a secure job. How did you manage to get over this terrible moment in your life?

Dana Maria Dezotell:That's right, on March 21, 2001, I got married in Romania to Lyman, my husband. It was a quick marriage, after a year or so of mutual groping. I moved to the state of Vermont where he lived. As you rightly said, eight months after their marriage, he died in a car accident on his way to work at IBM. Three people died in that accident, all colleagues. They were commuting together on that sad day of November 29, 2001. While Lyman was sleeping in the back seat, he was hit by an oncoming car. The next day I would have had my first medical check-up, to find out if I was pregnant. I knew I was, but I had to get under the care of a doctor. In September 2001 I had started my first job in America, teaching assistant at a high school where I was living at the time. God helped me survive hunger and the lack of my family. Looking back, I think I would have chosen the same, to stay and fight for my child. I wanted him to know why he didn't have a father. This tragedy lasted about 12 years, until I found out why my husband died.

What came after? How did you face, as a widow with a newborn child, this downright desperate situation? I think that even the most powerful man in the world would have been devastated after such a tragedy, especially since you were in a foreign country and could not rely on the support of your family, located in Romania?

In short, the ambition not to be beaten. The details are in the book I'm writing now.

NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, Jackie Young had been searching.

Orphaned as an infant, he spent the first few years of his life in a Nazi internment camp in what is now the Czech Republic. After World War II he was taken to England, adopted and given a new name.

As an adult, he struggled to learn of his origins and his family. He had some scant information about his birth mother, who died in a concentration camp. But about his father? Nothing. Just a blank space on a birth certificate.

That changed earlier this year when genealogists used a DNA sample to help find a name — and some relatives he never knew he had.

Having that answer to a lifelong question has been “amazing,” said Young, now 80 and living in London. It “opened the door that I thought would never get opened.”

CUTTING THE LINE–A ROMANIAN JOURNALIST’S STORY OF LOVE, SURVIVAL, AND IMMIGRATION offers unique insight into the female immigrant experience in America: the small cruelties, the unexpected kindnesses, the many obstacles, and the occasional victories. From big-city Romania to small-town New England, this memoir explores what it means to leave the life you know behind—and what it takes to create a new one in the face of overwhelming odds.

Before I moved to the United States, I was well on my way to an illustrious career in journalism in Romania. At thirty-three, I had a published book, a TV show, and a number of investigative print pieces to my name, and my star was still rising. Then I met Lyman Dezotell in Romania— an American man with a wide smile and a huge heart, the sole father of five girls. He came to visit Romania, but I gave up everything to marry him and move to America.

In Bucharest, I was a successful career woman with my own apartment and a tight circle of loved ones; in Coventry, Vermont, I was disconnected, with a limited grasp of English and only Lyman to lean on. Then, just months after the move, Lyman died in a freak accident on his way to work, leaving me penniless and pregnant with our child. With a plane ticket in my pocket, and the unexpected tragedy, I had to make a choice: leave the country or stay and find a way to survive on my own.

I am a former writer for the newspaper the National Daily in Bucharest, Romania. I am recognized as one of the country’s best post-revolution reporters; some of my press campaigns are now taught in courses at the University of Journalism in Romania. In 2001 I moved to Vermont, where I worked as a science teacher (the 2014 Vermont Outstanding Science Teacher of the Year) and am the co-editor of a Romanian language magazine, New York Magazin.

“Dana Dezotell’s memoir Pasiflora drops you into a world you will never forget, from a magical childhood in Romania to a love story that unfolds in America.”

NEWPORT CITY -- Attorney Duncan Kilmartin settled a legal malpractice and consumer fraud complaint brought against him by the widow he represented in a wrongful death lawsuit.

Neither Kilmartin nor his attorney Andrew Maass was present at a hearing in Orleans Superior Court-Civil Division Wednesday, but Andrew Manitsky, who represents the estate of Lyman Dezotell Jr., said the parties negotiated a settlement through mediation.

Manitsky said he was not at liberty to disclose the amount of money nor the terms of the settlement. "I can tell you we're satisfied with the settlement," Manitsky said.

Kilmartin and Maass did not return phone calls for this story.

Widow Maria Dezotell's counterclaim came on the heels of a civil action filed by law firm Rexford & Kilmartin in an attempt to collect Kilmartin's fees.

CARA organises 200 special Social media campaigns, 10 State Orientation Programmes, and Interactive meets with more than 700 Prospective Adoptive Parents and Adoptive Parents

Celebrates ‘Adoption Awareness Month' in November, 2022

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As part of the ‘Adoption Awareness Month' , Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) organised 10 State orientation programmes, ran 200 special social media campaigns, held interactive meets with more than 700 Prospective Adoptive Parents and Adoptive Parents in November ,2022. The key features of the new Adoption Regulations, 2022 notified by the Central Government on September 23, 2022 were also shared with them. CARA engaged with the adoption community by offering in-depth knowledge and resources for families.

Adoption Awareness Month was celebrated in the States of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Daman & Diu, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

News and comment from the 14th European Forum on the rights of the child in Brussels

The 14th European Forum on the rights of the child took place between the 27th and the 29th September 2022 in Brussels. Hope and Homes for Children was among the few organisations invited to attend in person. The forum covered topics crucial for our work such as

child participation

children in armed conflict

and addressed important EU policies, including

Dutch nun (89) accused of baby robbery: she told mothers that their child was stillborn.

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An 89-year-old Dutch nun is accused of baby theft and illegal adoption from Chile. In the 1970s and 1980s, she would have taken children without permission from the mothers for adoption in the Netherlands. Some Chilean adoptees and mothers have filed a report in recent years.

September 1979. An underage mother is admitted to the hospital in Paillaco, southern Chile, with her newborn son. She gave birth at home but lost a lot of blood. When the mother wants to breastfeed the next day, a Dutch nun and a Chilean social worker tell her that her baby has died. She can't see him anymore, his little body is already gone.

The 'deceased' baby ? Alejandro Quezada ? is, in fact, very much alive. He is now 43 years old and lives near Amsterdam. “My mother hated that she wasn't even allowed to take me to say goodbye. Because she started screaming, they drugged her. She came to three days later."