Sunday, December 30, 2018

Sunday Links

Here on the last Sunday of the year are some things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, the 2019 European Parliament elections may be a battle between globalists and populists.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany's three foreign policy problems in 2019.

From Radio Poland, Poland sends 188 tons of humanitarian aid to refugees encamped in Greece.

From Hungary Journal, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, E.U. leader Juncker "has not been a Christian democrat".

From Daily News Hungary, according to the opposition party Jobbik, the 2019 E.U. elections will have a significant effect on Hungary.

From Novinite, German police arrest a Syrian man suspected of planning a terror attack.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, the U.S. and Russia are already talking about Kosovo.

From Ekathimerini, a bomb threat at a Greek TV station turns out to be a hoax.

From the Greek Reporter, 69 more migrants are rescued from the Aegean Sea.

From Total Croatia News, many Americans have been searching the internet trying to find out where Croatia is.  (Yours truly visited the country in 2007, so I'd be happy to point out its location.)

From the Malta Independent, some of Malta's newest citizens include very rich Turks and Russian businessmen.

From Malta Today, 69 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean will be brought to Malta.  (Despite the same number of migrants, this is not, as far as I can tell, the same story as that in the Greek Reporter, linked above.)

From SwissInfo, their most-read articles of 2018.

From RFI, a petition against French climate inaction gathers two million votes.

From VRT NWS, the ban on most gasoline-burning cars in Belgium's capital region will be extended.

From the Sunday Express, the landing of a dinghy carrying migrants is caught on video.

From the Evening Standard, a man is charged with racially abusing a soccer player.

From the Independent, in response to migrants crossing the English Channel, Home Secretary Sajid Javid cuts short his Christmas break.

From the Mirror, U.K. spies make progress hunting for the "white widow".

From CBC News, more unaccompanied minors are entering Canada as refugees.

From Global News, a Canadian man who had twins via a surrogate in Kenya is not allowed to bring them to Canada.

From CTV News, lawyers worry about proposed changes to Canada's criminal trial system.

From Hürriyet Daily News, for New Year's Eve, Istanbul rolls out the security personnel.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey's justice minister claims that U.S. prosecutors will travel to Turkey to discuss the extradition of Fethullah Gülen.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Brazilian President-elect Bolsonaro visit a synagogue in Rio.

From The Times Of Israel, Netanyahu speaks to Brazilian Evangelicals and is given his own stamp.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to Netanyahu, Brazil moving their embassy to Jerusalem is "only a question of time".

From Rûdaw, 30 children of ISIS terrorists fly from Iraq to Russia.

From AhlulBayt News Agency, U.S. troops withdraw from a military warehouse in Syria.

From The Express Tribune, police in Karachi, Pakistan foil a terrorist attack planned for New Year's Eve.

From Al Arabiya, days after she is appointed, Iraq's minister of education resigns over her ties with ISIS.

From Gatestone Institute, Turkey conducts a war against Christian missionaries.

From Fitnaphobia, World Hijab Day ignores women forced to wear hijabs.

From Townhall, due to alleged election fraud, one seat in Congress will be empty when they are sworn in.

From The Washington Free Beacon, California Governor Jerry Brown (D) faults rural people for not supporting tax increases to combat climate change.  (Am I imagining something, or do proposals for combating climate change always seem to involve either a new or increased tax?)

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump finds a good model for his wall currently surrounding the home of his predecessor.

From The Washington Times, a defective bracket has been found on a jet bridge that collapsed at BWI.

From American Thinker, why leaving your doors open is not always a good idea.

From Campus Reform, the five most insane free speech controversies of this year.

From The Seguin Gazette, an observant witness and an off-duty cop prevent a potential church shooting.  (via The Blaze)

From Twitchy, journalist Brit Hume drops a truth bomb on Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

From the New York Post, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that he will decide early next year whether to run for president.

And from CBS Sports, the NCAA championship game will be a rematch.

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