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The macabre images and shocking accounts of maltreatment at privately run eldercare facilities have transfixed Romanians since a bombshell exposé that led to dozens of raids, arrests, and charges earlier this month. But the political fallout has been a long time coming.

President Radev and government officials relied on clientelism, but a loophole suggesting the massive flagpole is "relocatable" and questions about a main sponsor have left it on shaky ground.

Bulgaria's top broadcasting and new-media regulator, who was appointed by the country's pro-Russian president, conflated UN-backed evidence of atrocities by Russian forces in Ukraine with anti-Russian "propaganda," setting off a firestorm. 

Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili dropped a bombshell when he suggested that Georgia will shut down a lucrative trade in helping foreigners have children because of e-mail-order babies and abuses by same-sex couples. 

The word "Jude" alongside a Star of David was daubed on a shop window in the Bulgarian capital after a tense standoff with supporters from the far-right, nationalist Revival party, whose pugilistic leader and heavy-handed stunts have propelled it to nearly 14 percent support nationally.

In Kosovo's famously divided city, residents talk about coping with life when the languor of late spring gives way to security cordons, blaring alarms, and customers in bulletproof vests.

An explosion has torn through a mosque in the northern Afghanistan province of Badakhshan, reportedly killing the former Taliban security commander in the city of Baghlan and several others.

The deputy governor of Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan Province was killed by a car bomb on June 6, the provincial spokesman said.

Serb Mladen Perovic merely opened his doors to ethnic Serbs and Albanians alike when violence broke out this week in Zvecan and other cities. Now he's asking why that makes him a "traitor" in the eyes of Serbian ultranationalists.

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