Thursday Things

On a Thursday that started out wet but is now sunny, here are some things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, some European countries consider building border walls, to keep out diseased pigs.

From Deutsche Welle, police in Berlin seize paintings attributed to Hitler, because they might be fakes.

From the NL Times, Amsterdam says "no" to more Euronet ATMs.

From VRT NWS, 35,000 children in Brussels go truant for climate change.  (The report does not indicate whether any of them went to the Chinese embassy.)

From France24, a group of French "yellow vest" protesters will nominate candidates for the European Parliament elections.

From RFI, the recently arrested CEO of Renault resigns.

From the Express, please do not park your car on the sidewalk.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Business Minister Harrington tells Prime Minister Theresa May to go ahead and fire him.

From the Daily Mail, an Iraqi asylum seeker is charged in the rape and murder of two girls.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. starts returning boat-borne migrants to France.  (If this policy works on the English Channel, it should work on the Rio Grande, too, I would think.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, a no-deal Brexit would bring about a period of chaos.

From the Irish Examiner, the Irish government publishes plans for dealing with a no-deal Brexit.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese police inspect bananas and find cocaine.

From El País, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is pressured to recognize Venezuela's new president.

From Morocco World News, Spain deports a pro-separatist Polisario member to Morocco.

From SwissInfo, about 100 young people protest the economic conference in Davos, Switzerland.

From ANSA, the European Court of Human Rights rules that Italy violated American student Amanda Knox's right to defend herself.

From Malta Today, a Sicilian tribunal rules that judicial proceedings may begin against Italian Interior Minister Salvini.

From Total Croatia News, the Croatian Parliament will join in the observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

From Ekathimerini, 60 percent of polled Greeks oppose the deal to rename FYROM.

From the Greek Reporter, businesses in the Greek region of Macedonia are advised to register their trademarks ASAP.

From Hungary Journal, the European Commission starts an infringement action against Hungary's "stop Soros" laws.

From Daily News Hungary, opposition parties in Budapest urge local leader to not implement recent changes to the labor code.  (Opponents of these changes call them a "slave law".)

From Hungary Today, Hungary "finally" decides to improve its military.

From The Slovak Spectator, millionaires and people who are not millionaires are mostly bothered by the same things.

From Radio Praha, for Czech mountaineer Radek Jaroš, it's five of the Seven Summits down, and two to go.  (He thus receives the "badass" label, but must share it with someone else below.)

From Radio Poland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki tells the British to oddać nam naszych ludzi (give us back our people).

From CBC News, Canadian Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen launches a pilot program for attracting skilled immigrants to Canada's northern and rural areas.

From Global News, the Canadian government will not "cut corners" while reviewing the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

From Russia Today, Russian President Putin denounces "foreign interference" in Venezuela.

From Sputnik International, the Russian Duma passes a law against fake news.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan stands with Venezuelan President Maduro.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey's interior minister admits that police removes headscarves from detained woman.

From Rûdaw, while the U.S. releases an Iranian-born anchorwoman, Iran is criticized for mass arrests.

From Arutz Sheva, a church in Lithuania removes stairs made from Jewish headstones.

From The Times Of Israel, archaeologists in Qumran find more caves.

From The Jerusalem Post, the Middle Eastern origin of Maduro's support.

From YNetNews, Israel allows Qatari funds to be transferred to Gaza, but Hamas won't take the money.

From Egypt Today, Egypt discusses military cooperation with New Zealand.

From Radio Farda, despite a government crackdown, Iran's hijab protesters are not turning back.

From Dawn, Pakistan conducts a successful "training launch" of a ballistic missile.

From Pakistan Today, talks in Qatar between the U.S. and the Taliban reach their fourth day.

From Khaama Press, coalition forces in Afghanistan's Helmand province send a Taliban leader to his virgins.

From The Tundra Tabloids, Finnish police are forbidden to tell about crimes committed by asylum seekers.

From Premier, Pakistan's highest court will rule on a petition seeking to overturn their acquittal of Asia Bibi.  (via the British Pakistani Christian Association)

From Gatestone Institute, it's "time to tell the truth about the Palestinian issue".

From National Review, let's have some ideological diversity in the newsroom.

From Townhall, "the soft bigotry of liberal preconceptions".

From the Washington Examiner, the Senate kills both GOP and Democrat bills to reopen the government.  (Since it's a partial shutdown, they were really bills to reopen the remaining parts of the government.)

From The Federalist, 25 questions for new congresscritter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

From American Thinker, the Democrats don't have much to say about Venezuela's rejection of socialism.

From Twitchy, the "wealth tax" proposed by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) is un-American and unconstitutional.

From WPVI-TV, an Italian restaurant in New Jersey creates gender reveal lasagna.

And from the New York Post, a 90-year-old man in Italy still climbs mountains.  (He thus share the "badass" label with the younger Czech man above.)