Links For Halloween

It's time for October to end, young trick-or-treaters to walk around their neighborhoods in scary costumes, and adults to dress up for parties.  Naturally, I hope that everyone's costumes will include copious amounts of cultural appropriation and offend as many people as possible.

Here are some stories in the news, some of which are downright scary:

From Yahoo News, citing Newsweek, a North Korean nuclear test may have resulted in the deaths of 200 people due to tunnel collapse.  (H/T Mary B. for the Tweet)

From MSN, citing the Associated Press, the two women who claim to have been lost at sea for month never turned on their emergency beacon.

From the NL Times, human rights organizations allege that terror suspects are mistreated in Dutch prisons.

From Dutch News, the population of the Netherlands increased by 80,000 in the first nine months of 2017, mostly due to immigration.

From Westmonster, in France, 32 terror plots have been foiled since November 2015.  The article cites a French source, Le Dauphine.

From The Local FR, a family of five people have been found shot to death on their pig farm.

From Breitbart London, Hungary warns that a list of allies of George Soros should "raise alarm bells".

From the Express, where are the Eurosceptics and Europhiles?

From The Guardian, the E.U. "anti-migration" fund is criticized as "too opaque".  (As I've mentioned in an earlier post, I'm not sure that his fund accomplishes anything in the first place.)

From Euractiv, Catalan leader Carles Puidgemont and five others flee to Brussels.

From National Review, "the advantages of liberal insurance".

From FrontpageMag, Israel destroys a Palestinian terror tunnel.

From Townhall, there could be more indictments from Special Counsel Mueller, including members of both parties, according to Leon Panetta, who worked for presidents of both parties.

From The Week, "Mueller is running amok".

From AhlulBay News Agency, according to the Taliban, their hostage Kevin King is having serious health problems.

From BBC News, a woman in Pakistan is charged with murdering 14 of her husband's relatives.  (via the New York Post)

From NewsBusters, although the economy has recently done well, the networks say nothing.

And from Cosmos, Jupiter's newly discovered southern aurora is different from the northern one.

UPDATE:  I must add two more stories, one historical and the other more recent than the original post.

From Finding Dulcinea, on today's date in 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to a chapel door in Wittenburg, Germany.  That makes today the 500 year anniversary of this event.  (The article itself is six years old, but still relevant.)

And from the Daily News, in New York, a man runs people over with his truck.  (I had previously mentioned that he also shot people from his truck, but I'm not sure that's what happened.)  The suspect was reportedly "waving an air pistol and a BB gun", and was shot by police.  He also, according to several witnesses, yelled "Allahu akbar!"