Today is one of the two days of the year on which the sun really does rise in the east and sets in the west, if you define those terms as due east and due west. The sun's rising and setting points will continue to move northward until the solstice, about three months from now. For us in the northern hemisphere, this means that the season of Spring has arrived. At various places in one hemisphere or the other, here are some things going on:
From Voice Of Europe, the European Commission is working to make its migration pact legally binding.
From Russia Today, a Senegalese man sets a school bus full of Italian children on fire. (The story comes via Voice Of Europe. If you read Italian, read the story at RaiNews.)
From Sputnik International, the U.S. Air Force confirms that B-52s have been flying near the Russian regions of Kaliningrad and Leningrad.
From The Moscow Times, President Putin reshuffles some of Russia's regional governors.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungary's ruling party Fidesz "voluntarily suspends" its activities in the EPP.
From Hungary Today, Hungarian Order of Merit recipient John O’Sullivan calls Europe a problem not a solution.
From About Hungary, Hungary and Poland discuss bilateral defense cooperation.
From The Slovak Spectator, Slovaks, please open your windows.
From Radio Praha, Czech anthropologists reconstruct the face of St. John of Nepomuk, a Czech patron.
From Radio Poland, the leaders of Poland's Law and Justice party and Spain's Vox party talk in Warsaw.
From Deutsche Welle, Germany's new budget has less cash for integrating refugees and asylum seekers.
From the NL Times, a third suspect has been arrested in connection with the Utrecht tram shooting.
From Dutch News, Dutch police arrest a Rwandan man in connection with the 1994 genocide in that country.
From France24, French military will be on hand to help deal with future "yellow vest" protests.
From RFI, a U.N. court in The Hague, Netherlands increases the sentence imposed on former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić to life imprisonment.
From the Express, at Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit talks, after Independent Group MP Chuka Umunna walks in, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn walks out.
From the Evening Standard, after two Independent Group MPs are voted off a Commons committee and replaced with Labour MPs, Corbyn is accused of a "purge".
From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. Home Office refuses an Iranian Christian convert's asylum claim by quoting violent-sounding biblical passages.
From the (Irish) Independent, Irish gardaí train for dealing with hatchet men and gasoline bombs.
From the Irish Examiner, Ireland's Taoiseach wants to "cut the British government some slack".
From CBC News, the crucifix in Montreal's city council chambers will not return when the rooms are renovated.
From Morocco World News, about 35 percent of Morocco's population speaks French.
From The Portugal News, Portuguese Gypsies want to be more engaged in politics. (The article uses the term "Gypsy", and not "Roma" which is what they call themselves.)
From SwissInfo, the Swiss parliament's decision to deport convicted terrorists generates criticism.
From ANSA, more on the above-mentioned school bus full of children set on fire. (The suspect is reportedly originally from Senegal, but is now an Italian citizen.)
From the Malta Independent, Maltese authorities seize €32.4 million worth of cocaine.
From Malta Today, victims of the New Zealand shooting are remembered at a mosque in Paola, Malta.
From Total Croatia News, Croatia welcomes the above-mentioned court decision against former Serb leader Radovan Karadžić.
From Ekathimerini, North Macedonia Prime Minister Zoran Zaev points out that his country's language is still called "Macedonian", which was accepted in the Prespes agreement.
From the Greek Reporter, those ancient Greeks could sure run their mouths.
From Hürriyet Daily News, the U.S. is set to deliver two more F-35s to Turkey.
From Turkish Minute, a Turkish lawyer is sentenced to 11 years in prison for membership in a terrorist organization.
From Rûdaw, although the fight isn't completely over, some Kurdish troops are celebrating their victory over ISIS.
From Arutz Sheva, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives in Israel.
From The Times Of Israel, a large fragment of a Bes-Vessel, from around 600 BC, is found in a parking lot dig in the City of David.
From The Jerusalem Post, UNIFIL confirms the existence of six tunnels running between Lebanon and Israel.
From YNetNews, in response to cell phone signals being jammed, Hamas inmates set fire to their mattresses.
From the Egypt Independent, King Tut sells 130,000 tickets in Paris. (As Steve Martin once sang, "Now if I'd known they'd line up just to see him, I'd taken all my money and bought me a museum.")
From Egypt Today, a court in Giza sentences 40 convicted human traffickers to prison.
From Dawn, a court in Lahore, Pakistan sentences a Czech woman to 8 years and 8 months for smuggling heroin.
From Khaama Press, Afghan border forces in Nangarhar province seize 40 rockets.
From The Unshackled, Erdoğan has an ominous warning for Australians visiting Turkey.
From Cleveland Jewish News, a Jordanian cleric urges Muslims to learn military skills.
From Breitbart, in Indonesia's Aceh province, six unmarried couples are caned for acting amorously.
From Gatestone Institute, "will Saudi Arabia leave the seventh century?"
From Townhall, don't forget CAIR's dirty deeds.
From FrontpageMag, even though their territory might be gone, ISIS is still a threat.
From National Review, President Trump wants the Mueller report to be publicly released.
From The Washington Free Beacon, in 1983, then-Senator Joe Biden (D-Del) called the idea of packing courts "bonehead".
From Reason, Biden voted for the Iraq war, but then-Representative Bernie Sanders (I-VT) did not.
From the Washington Examiner, Senator Kirstin Gillibrand (D-NY) wants to extend social security to illegal aliens.
From CNS News, as Christians die in Nigeria, the media go Sgt. Schulz.
From The Federalist, why the Democrats want to end the Electoral College.
From American Thinker, Islamophilia is a reaction against truth.
From Accuracy in Media, some journalists at The New York Times admit having an anti-Trump agenda.
From USA Today, Harvard University is sued for allegedly profiting from photos of slaves. (via The Blaze)
From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, a woman being sexually assaulted gives her attacker a black eye with her cell phone. (via the New York Post)
And from AP News, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's fans venerate him. (The story comes via NewsBusters, who note that even MSNBC regards Mueller prayer candles as being too much.)
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