Tomorrow I'll be driving down to Virginia to visit my siblings for Thanksgiving, so any posts I make during the next few days will most likely be briefer than normal. Meanwhile, here are some things going on:
From The Times Of Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu announces that Israel will not sign the U.N. migration pact. (via Voice Of Europe)
From Radio Poland, according to Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak, Poland will not sign the U.N. migration pact. (via Voice Of Europe)
From Radio Praha, the Czech government approves a minimum wage hike for 2019.
From Deutsche Welle, the German government sets out a new immigration law.
From the NL Times, according to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, "both sides" were guilty of violence at Sinterklaas parties.
From Dutch News, the Dutch Senate votes in favor of changing the way mayors are chosen in the Netherlands.
From VRT NWS, the stabbing of a police officer in Brussels is being treated as terrorism.
From Voice Of Europe, although the knifeman reportedly yelled "Allahu akhbar!", authorities regard his motive as unknown. (If you read Flemish, read the story at HLN.)
From France24, French police try to dislodge "yellow vest" protesters.
From RFI, French mayors hold their annual conference in Paris.
From Politicalite, MPs from the DUP refuse to vote for the U.K. finance bill in response Prime Minister May's Brexit deal. (Via Voice Of Europe)
From the Express, U.K. Cabinet Brexiteers want the E.U. to "play ball" on trade.
From the Lancashire Telegraph, the Blackburn Cathedral promises that there will be more Islamic calls to prayer. (Instead of 4,000 holes, as John Lennon once observed, Blackburn, Lancashire more recently has had 1 Islamic call to prayer issued in a cathedral.)
From the (U.K.) Independent, Theresa May meets with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland considers establishing birthright citizenship.
From Global News, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "will probably stop" the strike by Canada Post workers, like his father did.
From El País, 49 people are injured and one killed when a train derails in Barcelona, Spain.
From Novinite, eight people are hurt when a rock falls onto a train in Bulgaria.
From the Malta Independent, 1963 people have been found working in Malta without the necessary permits.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gets a new ally from the U.S.
From Hungary Daily, former FYROM Prime Minister Gruevski has reportedly been given refugee status in Hungary.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, Greece and Albania will be connected by a new rail line. (This time, a bit of good news about railroads.)
From the Greek Reporter, dozens of ancient Greek shipwrecks have been found looted off the Albanian coast.
From Russia Today, Russian officials warn Poland against building a permanent U.S. military base.
From Sputnik International, at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, a plane has apparently run over a man while taxiing.
From Arutz Sheva, does speaking against Islam make you an Islamophobe?
From the New Straits Times, a Malaysian Muslim scholar says that Muslims must oppose ICERD.
From Gatestone Institute, the E.U. plays a "dangerous new confidence game".
From FrontpageMag, the migrant caravan has been "decades in the making".
From National Review, "white privilege" is a canard.
From Townhall, "even astronauts fear the left".
From Breitbart, Representative Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass) wants marijuana to be legalized nationally.
From The Washington Times, the Iraqi military says that they have killed 40 ISIS terrorists.
From NumbersUSA, migrants are at the border, and more are on the way.
From CNS News, Border Patrol agents rescue a Honduran illegal alien family from pillars in the Rio Grande.
From the New York Post, millennials cast off Christianity and embrace witchcraft.
From NBC News, a county commissioner in Kansas who talked about the "master race" has resigned. (For using this term, he gets the "stupid people" label.)
And from CBS This Morning, the mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts is first in line to buy recreational marijuana.
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