Thursday, April 19, 2018

Thursday Things

Another Thursday, another list of things going on (with a bit of my own commentary):

From Voice Of Europe, migrants beat up a German boy for eating pork.

From The Brussels Times, the Belgian Secretary of State tells Albanians to visit, spend money, work and study, but don't seek asylum.

From Russia Today, Hungary says "no" to illegal migrants.

From Sputnik International, some refugees have reportedly sold their E.U. IDs online.

From the Express, Saudi Arabia and Qatar launch joint military drills.  (You could call this your gasoline money at work.)

From the Daily Mail, a Greek court rules that asylum seekers cannot be held while their claims are being assessed.

From EuroNews, the E.U. granted about 500,000 asylum claims in 2017.

From Quartz, 60 percent of approved E.U. asylum requests were by one country.

From the NL Times, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg criticizes the Netherlands for not spending more on defense.

From Dutch News, unemployment in the Netherlands falls below 4 percent.

From Total Croatia News, Austria passes a law facilitating deportation of migrants to Croatia.

From Newsweek, Kurdish forces claim to have captured a German Islamic terrorist connected to the 9/11 hijackers.

From Reuters, according to E.U. officials, time for reforms is running out.

From Flanders News, at the Aalst, Belgium railroad station, thug brings knife, cops bring guns.

From ANSA, Italian Senate Speaker Maria Elisabetta Casellati starts a second round of talks between parties trying to form a government.

From the ABC News (where "A" means "Australian), Australia's first female Muslim member of Parliament says that her husband used sharia to keep her in an abusive marriage.  (via the Daily Mail)

From Feminism And Religion, a look at toxic masculinity.

From AhlulBayt News Agency, hundreds of displaced Syrians return home from Lebanon.

From Gatestone Institute, Turkish President Erdoğan threatens France.

From FrontpageMag, jihadis and drug smugglers are at our southern border.  (In other words, two more reasons why building a wall is perfectly non-racist.)

From National Review, the proper response to the Fresno State University professor who said some horrid things about Barbara Bush is indifference.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump backs current Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) as she runs for Senator.

From The Hill, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has told Trump that he is not a target of Special Counsel Mueller's investigation.

From the New York Post, thieves steal $800,000 worth of Disneyworld tickets from a youth group.

And from Hudson Valley One, the sun is acting weird.

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