Friday, March 1, 2019

Stories To Begin March

As we march into March (pun intended), here are some things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, one in five migrants in Denmark blame women for being raped.  ("Rotten in Denmark", indeed.)

From Deutsche Welle, tensions grow in the German care sector as the number of foreign-trained workers increases.

From the NL Times, a Dutch court rules that police may force suspects to unlock their fingerprint-protected phones.

From Dutch News, Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge says that market forces in the healthcare system have gone too far.

From RFI, a majority of polled French people oppose the return of French jihadists.

From the Express, a former aide to U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May says that she never believed in Brexit.

From the Evening Standard, very young children are being targeted for grooming on Instagram.

From BBC News, former Labour peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham is charged with attempted rape.

From the (U.K.) Independent, according to a legal opinion issued by the German Bundestag, a delay of Brexit beyond two months could be illegal.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Ireland's Taoiseach, the seizure of two Northern Irish fishing boats was "an accident waiting to happen".

From the Irish Examiner, the Taoiseach also says that a no-deal Brexit is unlikely.

From El País, Spain plans to grant 400,000 Britons residency if there is a hard Brexit.

From Morocco World News, the Moroccan government drafts a law about their fishing agreement with the E.U.

From ANSA, migrant arrivals in Italy are down 95 percent in the two months of 2019 as compared to the same period in 2018.

From SwissInfo, Swiss customs officials seized twice as many illegal weapons in 2018 as in 2017.

From Total Croatia News, a migrant who falsely reported his daughter as missing is charged with making a false alarm.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, today is a painful anniversary for Bosniaks.

From Novinite, according to Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Bulgaria is not Russia's Trojan horse.

From Sputnik International, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meets with Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez today.

From Daily News Hungary, according to Hungarian interior ministry State Secretary Károly Kontrát, migration is still a threat.

From Radio Poland, Poland remembers its anti-communist fighters from just after World War II.

From CBC News, Canada announces extradition proceedings against Huawei executive Mang Wanzhou.

From CTV News, coastal Labrador goes on alert due to polar bear sightings.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey lifts restrictions on more than 51,000 passport.

From Rûdaw, Indonesians children are among the people fleeing the last holdout of ISIS.

From The Times Of Israel, as thousand of Gazans riot along the border with Israel, Israeli troops wound 21 of them.

From The Jerusalem Post, the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet completes another maneuver on its way the moon.

From Egypt Today, Oscar-winning Egyptian actor Rami Malek is in negotiations to play a villain in a James Bond movie.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan sends the captured Indian pilot home.

From The Jakarta Post, clerics from an Indonesian Islamic organization urge Muslims to avoid the word kafir.

From GDN, an Saudi scholar advises Muslim women against wearing colored contact lenses.

From ABC News (where "A" stands for "Australian"), a grave containing headless bodies is found near an ISIS stronghold.

From The Conservative Woman, the white farmer has become Africa's most endangered species.

From FrontpageMag, the real victims of fake hate crimes.

From National Review, another acquittal of a sexual assault defendant shows the need to believe evidence, not gender.

From Townhall, Democrats are getting out on a very left-wing limb.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump will expel dozens of Venezuelans loyal to President Maduro.

From The Federalist, West Virginia teachers and parents say that they are afraid of teachers unions.

From American Thinker, "Comrade" AOC (D-NY) has a list of insufficiently left Democrats.

From CNS News, Vice President Mike Pence says that the outrage of the border wall opponents is "manufactured".

From WPVI-TV, a woman in Delaware is arrested for allegedly dragging a policeman with her SUV.

From NewsBusters, a guest on CNN lauds President Bush the Elder for raising taxes.

From Twitchy, the HuffPost gets particular about the language of surviving cancer.

From the New York Post, scientists build a better mouse.  (Not a mousetrap, mind you, but a mouse.)

From Fox News, a top-ranking bridge player is suspended for using banned substances.

From The Roanoke Times, why Justin Hamilton as safeties coach is a "big time addition" for Virginia Tech's football team.

And from The Babylon Bee, for some reason, all of Google's self-driving cars are veering left.

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