BUCHAREST, Romania – Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced the resignation of his government Wednesday following huge protests in the wake of a nightclub fire that killed more than 30 people. “I’m handing in my mandate, I’m resigning, and implicitly my government too,” Ponta said in a statement. He said he would stay on until...

Stock in Gabriel Resources, Ltd. plunged almost 11 per cent Monday after the Romanian government announced it would not allow the Canadian company to develop what would have been Europe's biggest open gold mine.