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In wake of journalist’s murder, Slovak protesters say ‘corruption, not courage,’ should be punished

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The killing of Jan Kuciak, 27, who investigated corruption among politically-connected business people, and his fiancée at their home in February increased widespread anger about persistent corruption allegations, leading to the largest near-weekly protests since the end of communism in 1989.

People hold up a cartoon of the new Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini during a march in Slovakia

After the murder of an investigative journalist and a government shakeup, Slovakia ponders its tenuous future

Conflict
The leader of ANO party Andrej Babis signs books for a supporter during an election campaign rally in Prague, Czech Republic September 28, 2017.

The Czech Republic’s Trump is in the lead for prime minister

Global Politics
A group of young Roma students goof off in the hallway of Šarišské Michaľany elementary school.

Roma kids are no longer separate and unequal, but integration doesn’t exactly make them feel welcomed

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