Alison Mutler, Author at Valley News

A boy living in a family-style home for abandoned children poses for a photo covering his face with a clown doll in Bucharest, Romania, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. Once infamous for its orphanages, Romania is now emptying them, reuniting abandoned children with their own families or placing them in foster homes, and the goal is to shut the system down completely in a few years. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Emptying Orphanages Around the World

by Alison Mutler Associated Press, and Gillian Wong And David Crary Associated PressDecember 24, 2017

Bucharest, Romania — Soft toys on the beds and posters on the walls. No more than three children to a room. One of the girls living in the four-bedroom home gushes about getting makeup for her birthday.In this group home on a leafy street in…

Honor guard soldiers perform during the funeral ceremony in tribute to late Romanian King Michael in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Dec.16, 2017. Tens of thousands of Romanians joined the European royals on Saturday to pay their respects to late King Michael as a state funeral got underway. Michael, who ruled Romania twice before being forced to abdicate by the communists in 1947, died at the age of 96 in Switzerland this month. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Romanians, European Royals, Attend King’s Funeral

by Alison Mutler Associated PressDecember 16, 2017

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg walks past Romania's President, Klaus Iohannis, right, during the NATO Parliamentary Assembly session in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Oct. 9, 2017. NATO's chief says the alliance does not want a "new Cold War" with Russia, despite members' concerns about Russian military buildup close to NATOs' border. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

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NATO Chief: No New Cold War

by Alison Mutler Associated PressOctober 10, 2017

FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014 file photo, a bride holds an umbrella in a park in Bucharest, Romania. Bucharest, a city of more than 2 million, the farthest east capital in the European Union, once known as the “Little Paris”, buzzes with an energetic, round-the-clock vibe and has an eclectic mixture of architecture from Oriental Byzantine, to French Neoclassical to communist-era apartment buildings. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

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Bucharest Buzzes With a New Feel

by Alison Mutler Associated PressJuly 16, 2016

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