* Remains dug up to check identities of Ceausescu, wife * Son-in-law may sue Romanian government * DNA results could take weeks or months (Adds details on Romania history, Ceausescu, legal process) By ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Taking the country by surprise, forensic scientists on Wednesday exhumed what are believed to be the bodies of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena at the ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The Palace of Spring, the official residence of Nicolae Ceausescu, has opened its gilded doors to the public more than two decades after the dictator and his wife were shot ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania's first leader after the collapse of the Ceausescu dictatorship, died at 95. He saw himself as a savior, but was accused of crimes against humanity in the 1989 revolution.On ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes against humanity for his role in the bloody ...

Hours after Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia in August 1968, Romania's communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, denounced the invasion to a crowd of thousands in central Bucharest. The crushing ...

UCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A retired Romanian general who organized the summary trial of communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife has died. Victor Stanculescu was 88. His lawyer, Catalin Dancu, ...

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The graves of Romania's former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were dug up Wednesday, some 20 years after their deaths, to check if they were truly buried ...