Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Links For Halloween

As you give out candy to your local trick-or-treaters, here are some things going on:

From the Express, according to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the E.U. should beg the U.K. not to leave.

From the Evening Standard, former London Mayor Boris Johnson will be burned in effigy at the annual bonfire in Edenbridge, England.

From the Independent, Austria will withdraw for the U.N. immigration pact.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From The Guardian, accused rapist Tariq Ramadan changes his version of events.

From Global News, according to privacy experts, there's little Canadians can do about StatCan having their banking information.

From the Toronto Sun, in Wellington, Prince Edward Island, no one wants to be mayor.

From The Globe And Mail, the Ontario government passes legislation to repeal cap-and-trade.

From El País, victims of Francisco Franco warn against moving his remains to La Almudena Cathedral in Madrid.

From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron will present a bill giving allowing medically-assisted reproduction for single and lesbian women.

From RFI, France launches an investigation about malformed babies.

From the NL Times, Amsterdam businesses are threatened via email.

From Dutch News, a Syrian man in the Netherlands is arrested for allegedly being an ISIS fighter.

From Deutsche Welle, some new German helicopters and tanks are not fully operational.

From SwissInfo, how drones are becoming useful in cities.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia decides to put barriers on its unused roads near its borders.

From Ekathimerini, two Greek-Americans receive the 2018 Athenagoras Human Rights Award.

From the Greek Reporter, a Creek coroner was given about five minutes to examine the body of the Greek man killed by Albanian police.

From Radio Poland, U.S. lawyers are looking for Poles who helped clean up after the 9/11 attacks and thus qualify for compensation.

From The Slovak Spectator, Czechs and Slovaks celebrated their centenary together.

From Russia Today, one expert says that in response to the U.S. pulling out of the INF treaty, Russia should demand Alaska back.

From Sputnik International, a bomb kills one person and wounds three others at a building in Arkhangelsk, Russia.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to a Turkish prosecutor, Jamal Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered.

From Arutz Sheva, IDF troops fire on terrorists launching arson balloons.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is likely to attend the inauguration of the new Brazilian president.

From Rûdaw, Iraqi troops destroy four ISIS tunnels in Saladin province.

From Dawn, the Pakistani Supreme Court acquits and releases Asia Bibi.  (This news came out yesterday, but is too important to ignore.)

From Gatestone Institute, more on the acquittal of Asia Bibi.

From Channel News Asia, Pakistani Islamists protest Bibi's acquittal.

From Khamma Press, five Taliban leaders arrive in Qatar in an attempt to revive peace talks.  (These were the five traded for U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl.)

From The Jakarta Post, two Indonesian comedians, one Muslim and the other Christian, get death threats over a video on cooking pork.

From FrontpageMag, selective indignation on the left.

From National Review, "God save Queen".  (You read that correctly.  There is no "the" before "Queen" in the quoted title.)

From Townhall, let's be careful about defining "incitement".

From CNS News, the author of the 14th Amendment weighs in.

From the New York Post, President Trump quotes Senator Reid (D-NV).

From The Daily Caller, Russia sends Armenia to Syria.

And from The Babylon Bee, the SAT replaces scoring with participation trophies.

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