Sunday Links

Here are some things going on out there:

From Canada Free Press, the United Nations announces the Strong Cities Network.

From ABC News, Vice President Biden endorses transgenders serving in the military.

From The Daily Star, Russian planes hit targets in Talbiseh, north of Homs, Syria.

From Russia Today, no one can clearly identify the Syrian moderate opposition.

From the Chicago Tribune, flash flooding hits the French Riviera.  (In my high school French class, we learned that the area is actually called the Côte d'Azure.)

From NewsBusters, while being interviewed after his team defeats Notre Dame, Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney (whose first name is misspelled as "Gabo") is cut off by ESPN just after mentioning God.

From Fox News, American wingsuit jumper Johnny Strange dies from crashing in the Swiss Alps.

In National Review, Kevin Williamson advises, "Don't play the shooter's game."

From the Malaysia Chronicle, a British family are harassed after converting from Islam.

From ARA News, ISIS militants force dozens of underage girls into marriage.

From the South China Morning Post, two Indonesian women suspected of being lesbians will be spared a 100-lash punishment because a law criminalizing homosexuality hasn't yet taken effect.  Instead, they will be given "rehabilitation".

From AOL, Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) will run for House Speaker.

From the Sunday Express, after largely missing the U.S., Hurricane Joaquin heads across the Atlantic and could threaten the U.K.

From The Sydney Morning Herald, a teenage Muslim who killed a police employee in Parramatta, Australia may have had links to Hizb ut-Tahrir.  (via Breitbart London)

From NPR Illinois, corruption could be problem for establishing peace in Colombia.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a CNN panelist pronounces Senator Rand Paul's (R-KY) presidential campaign "officially on death watch".

From The Washington Post, according to an Afghan official, the hospital in Kunduz that was used by Doctors Without Border and recently hit by a U.S. airstrike, was "a Taliban base".

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, parents seek help understanding Common Core math.

And from the New York Post, a bride's mother rummages through a dumpster to retrieve her daughter's Oscar de la Renta wedding dress, after it had been mistakenly thrown into the trash.