Romania has been deeply shaken by the unprecedented incident that occurred in the early hours of last Friday, when a Russian drone carrying 30 kilograms of explosives crashed into a 10-story apartment block in Galați. The city lies just 15 miles from the Ukrainian port of Reni, one of the neighboring country’s key grain-export facilities and a reason why Russia attacks almost nightly. But on this occasion the drone’s impact crossed boundaries not previously seen in this European Union country. The unmanned aircraft exploded, injuring a woman and her 14-year-old son, who lived on the building’s top floor; the block stands in the nerve center of this town of about 250,000 people on the banks of the Danube.

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The U.S. businessman Joel Weinshanker, the chief administrator of Elvis Presley’s rights and properties, has purchased a majority stake in the company that operates Bran Castle—popularly associated with Dracula—from the heirs of Princess Ileana of Romania, the online business news site Profit.ro reported on Friday.

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