In the middle of another week, here are some things going on:
From Voice Of Europe, a U.K. police watchdog notes that the constabulary has been overwhelmed by people calling with mental health problems.
From Politicalite, the U.K. Labour Party will team up with ProFa units to counterprotest a Brexit march.
From the Express, a German member of the European Parliament wants a better deal for the U.K.
From the Evening Standard, the Bank of England says that a no-deal Brexit will hurt the British economy. (Weren't some people saying that much the same thing would result from the original Brexit vote in the first place?)
From the Metro, in the U.K., beware the McDonald's touchscreen.
From the (U.K.) Independent, British politician John McDonnell suggests that a rejection of Prime Minister May's Brexit deal could result in a second referendum.
From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland deals with rats.
From CBC News, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques will ride a Russian Soyuz into space next week.
From France24, France's prime minister offers to meet with "yellow vest" protesters.
From RFI, the "yellow vests" plan to continue their protests.
From El País, in Catalonia, firemen, doctors and students protest against budget cuts.
From The Portugal News, Portugal cuts taxes on bullfights.
From the Malta Independent, Malta's electricity prices are the fourth lowest in the E.U.
From ANSA, according to Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, Italy will not sign the U.N. migration pact, and Italian police arrest a migrant for allegedly plotting to put rat poison into a water supply. (The former story comes via Voice Of Europe, while the latter comes via The Religion Of Peace.)
From Total Croatia News, Croatia gets a new item on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
From Ekathimerini, Greece, Cyprus and Israel hold talks on a new gas pipeline.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, Serbia prepares to host French President Emmanuel Macron.
From Novinite, Bulgaria's Border Police detain 13 illegal migrants.
From Hungary Journal, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto sets forth his county's objections to the U.N. migration pact.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian members of the European Parliament are divided over the E.U.'s planned asylum agency.
From Hungary Today, more Hungarians than ever are working, while unemployment is at a historic low.
From About Hungary, Budapest will host the 11th annual human rights forum.
From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia extradites a suspected terrorist to Ukraine.
From Radio Praha, over 500,000 foreigners are working in the Czech Republic.
From Radio Poland, a government spokesperson says that Polish media exhibits "a full spectrum of opinion".
From Deutsche Welle, Germany will double its donation to the U.N. climate change fund.
From the NL Times, according to the Dutch government, Russia has developed a prohibited cruise missile.
From Dutch News, ten companies account for half of Dutch carbon dioxide emissions.
From Russia Today, according to the Russian military, ISIS is planning a false flag chemical attack in Syria.
From Sputnik International, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wants NATO to send ships into the Black Sea.
From Hürriyet Daily News, in two weeks, 4,000 Syrians go home from Turkey.
From Arutz Sheva, U.S. envoy Jason Greenblatt criticizes a Palestinian Authority law banning sale of land to Jews.
From The Times Of Israel, the last Jew in Afghanistan fights to keep open the country's only synagogue.
From The Jerusalem Post, 12 Israeli-Americans file a lawsuit against AirBnB's decision to remove West Bank settlement listings.
From Rûdaw, tourism in Kurdistan rebounds to pre-ISIS war levels.
From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan performs a groundbreaking for a corridor allowing Indians to visit a Sikh shrine in Pakistan.
From Pakistan Today, Pakistan invites India to act like a certain John Lennon song.
From Khaama Press, U.S. and Afghan forces send 28 Taliban and ISIS-K terrorists to their virgins.
From Al Arabiya, a documentary shows Hezbollah's "narco jihad".
From Plymouth Live, the Exeter bomber clung to his religion up to his death.
From the Egypt Independent, a Sufi Muslim teacher says that some non-Muslims might enter paradise.
From the Standard, a girl is beaten to death for not reciting a verse in the Koran.
From Naija News, police in Sudan shave the hair of young men.
From Gatestone Institute, Swedish authorities are too busy to deal with accused rapists.
From Real Clear Politics, the double standards of Silicon Valley.
From National Review, Hillary Clinton tries to have it both ways on immigration.
From FrontpageMag, Democrats defend illegal aliens attacking the Border Patrol. (The migrants in the caravan entered Mexico illegally, and are thus are not only aspiring illegal aliens under U.S. law, but are already illegal aliens under Mexican law.)
From Townhall, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) passes a leadership test vote, a step toward retaking her old job.
From The Washington Free Beacon, SCOTUS hears arguments in a police asset forfeiture case.
From the Washington Examiner, Vice President Mike Pence casts a tie-breaking vote to advance a judicial nominee.
From American Thinker, in Toronto, Mr. Bill and Ms. Hill speak to a mostly empty arena.
From The Federalist, how leftist intersectionality is the real bigotry.
From the New York Post, the U.N. predicts an El Niño for this coming February.
From Fox News, the Senate advances a resolution against U.S. support for the war in Yemen.
From CNN, Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss) will remain in office.
From LifeNews, Jesse Kelly's Twitter account has been restored, just as mysteriously as it had been banned.
From the Los Angeles Times, big businesses add women to their boards at a better pace than start-ups.
From ABC News, Ivanka Trump defends her emails. (via Breitbart)
From Campus Reform, a professor assigns a paper about "Donald Rump". (via The Daily Caller)
And from The Babylon Bee, caravan migrants turn around and head for home after learning about the U.S. national debt.
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