Friday, December 14, 2018

Friday Fuss

Starting with two stories about endings, here are some things going on:

From The Wrap, the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard will soon be shut down.  (The story comes via Gateway Pundit.  In the interests of full disclosure, yours truly subscribed to TWS for a few years during the late 1990s and early 2000s.)

From Brietbart, Venezuela's last independent nationally circulating newspaper will discontinue, due to a paper shortage.  (It will still exist online.)

From the New York Post, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will not be President Trump's next chief of staff.  (Anyone waiting in line to visit the White House will be relieved to know that his lane will not be shut down.)

From LifeNews, children saved from abortion write letters to thank Trump for his policies.

From Twitchy, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) tries to explain why Democrats were for the wall before they were against it.

From The Daily Caller, some people have weird ideas for "modernizing" Santa Claus.

From the Mirrorwhy December babies are special.  (via the New York Post)

From the Express, "yellow vest" protests are now in the U.K.

From Politicalite, the U.K. "yellow vest" protesters promise more protests.

From BBC News, U.K. Prime Minister May says that she might be able to get more assurances for MPs, for them to back her Brexit deal.

From the Independent, May has a spat with E.U. leader Jean-Claude Juncker.

From the Irish Examiner, Ireland's Taoiseach dismisses a suggestion from Prime Minister May.

From CBC News, reports that Canada will ban Huawei are dismissed as "speculation".  (This is the company whose CFO has been arrested by Canadian authorities, and may also be wanted in the U.S.)

From CTV News, Canada's foreign affairs minister calls China's detention of two Canadians "very concerning".

From Global News, Canada does not issue any travel warnings for China, even though their tourism minster cancels her trip there.

From The Portugal News, a Portuguese new-Nazi woman and her husband face sentencing in the U.K. for belonging to a banned group.

From El País, in what is described as a "final blow", police arrest three more members of a notorious drug-smuggling gang.

From France24, French President Macron visits Strasbourg as its Christmas market reopens.

From RFI, in France, "yellow vest" protesters protest again.

From VRT NWS, "Hi-Viz" protesters are also expected again in Belgium.

From the NL Times, a man waving a knife causes part of Schiphol Airport to be evacuated.

From Dutch News, three Dutch supermarkers ban industrially raised ducks.

From Deutsche Welle, activists prank the AfD with fake corporate ads.

From Radio Poland, the U.N. climate change summit in Katowice will last longer than expected.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian police arrest 51 protesters and sustain 14 injuries.

From Hungary Today, Ukraine's crackdown on draft dodgers could affect ethic Hungarians in Transcarpatia.

From Russia Today, the number of inmates in Russian prisons hits a record low.

From Novinite, Sweden offers to sell Bulgaria 10 Gripen fighter jets.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Kosovo's parliament votes to create an army.

From Total Croatia News, the Croatian parliament adopts a declaration on the status of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From Ekathimerini, people protesting against the Greece-FYROM name deal scuffle with police.

From the Greek Reporter, according to New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek parliament will not ratify the name deal.

From ANSA, an Italian reporter shot in the Strasbourg attack has died.

From Hürriyet Daily News, President Trump and President Erdoğan have a phone conversation about Syria.

From Rûdaw, ISIS is not defeated, but is transforming.

From Iraqi News, according to the mayor of al-Qaem, Iraq, ISIS terrorists are holding 3,500 Iraqis in prisons in Syria.

From Arutz Sheva, Palestinians clash with IDF soldiers looking for terrorists.

From The Times Of Israel, Palestinian security forces uses batons against Hamas protesters in Hebron.

From AhlulBayt News Agency, Iran welcomes agreements between warring sides in Yemen.

From The Express Tribune, according to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, the U.S. and the Taliban will talk next Monday.

From Khaama Press, a Taliban executioner in Afghanistan's Zabul province gets droned.

From The Tundra Tabloids, the media and police hide the Muslim identity of a would-be rapist, who also kicked a puppy.

From The Spectator, "an interview with Asia Bibi's lawyer", now living in the U.K.

From FrontpageMag, an Algerian refugee calls a German cathedral "Allah's enemy".

From National Review, American diversity is not as new as you might think.

From Townhall, the American Revolution and its civil rights movement are more connected than you might think.  (Didn't Dr. King say something about America living out "the true meaning of its creed"?)

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) has apparently come to her senses.

From The Federalist, the riots in Paris prove that Mike Pompeo was right in his E.U. speech.

And from The Babylon Bee, Eminem is the latest to announce that he will not be Trump's White House chief of staff.

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