Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Tuesday Links

As another Tuesday afternoon has arrived, here are some things going on:

From PJ Media, someone in Austin, Texas has created a very large campaign ad for Robert O'Rourke.

From The Daily CallerSpecial Counsel Robert Mueller obtained his first search warrant against Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in July 2017.

From Fox News, the Supreme Court rules that immigration authorities may detain illegal aliens who finish a prison sentence.  (The article uses the euphemism "undocumented immigrants".)

From Reuters, Fox Corporation names former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis) to its board.

From CNS News, at a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council, a speaker is censored as he identifies the rights-abusers in the room.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) and her chief of staff have been removed as governors of the Justice Democrats PAC.

From the Washington Examiner, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) is shocked by the defeat of an abortion bill.

From Townhall, O'Rourke leaves third trimester abortions up to "a decision that the woman makes".

From The American Conservative, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is finding some support among former Trump supporters.

From National Review, will any Democrat 2020 presidential candidate reject abortion extremism?

From FrontpageMag, a grand jury in New Mexico indicts five Muslims on terror-related charges.

From Morocco World News, protests resume in Algeria as President Abdelaziz Bouteflika postpones the country's elections.

From El País, the premier of Catalonia refuses to remove separatist symbols from government buildings.

From France24, is the "real" camembert cheese in danger?

From RFI, if you want to visit Paris, prepare to shell out the Euros.

From CBC News, Canadian Tories threaten budget disruption after Liberals shut down the SNC-Lavalin probe.

From Global News, Canada and the E.U. re-examine the approval they had given Boeing 737 Max airplanes.

From CTV News, the New Brunswick provincial government announces a surplus and debt reduction.

From the Express, could an obscure 50-year-old treaty be used to break the current Brexit deadlock?

From the Evening Standard, "yellow vest" protesters storm the U.K. Attorney General's office.

From the Independent, Prime Minister May admits that the U.K. is "in crisis".

From the Irish Examiner, according to Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and European Council President Donald Tusk, a no-deal Brexit would be bad for everyone.

From The Irish News, Tusk expresses his "strong and ongoing" solidarity with Ireland.  (Since Tusk is Polish, the term "solidarity" would be quite appropriate.)

From VRT NWS, yet another bomb goes off in Antwerp, resulting in a car catching fire.

From the NL Times, the Utrecht shooting suspect had no link to his victims.

From Dutch News, the Utrecht shooting suspect was awaiting a trial for rape.

From Deutsche Welle, a court in Münster rules that Germany must question U.S. drone strikes.

From Radio Poland, nobody from Russia will be invited to Polish observance of the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II.

From Radio Praha, the Lennon Wall in Prague gets some new artwork.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban meets a bunch of U.S. congresscritters.

From Hungary Today, Hungary opens a foreign trade office in Jerusalem.

From About Hungary, Foreign Minister Szijjarto reaffirms Hungary's refusal to carry out the E.U.'s migration compact.

From Russia Today, the Russian government will not destroy its 9M729 missile complexes.

From The Moscow Times, after 30 years in office, Kazakhstan's president resigns.

From Novinite, Bulgarian beer production is getting easier on the environment.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the Council of Europe says that Albania needs to strengthen its laws protecting minority rights.

From the Greek Reporter, U.S. human rights advocate Kerry Kennedy calls for the Parthenon marbles to be returned to Greece.

From Total Croatia News, the Croatian Jewish community will not attend this year's commemoration for the victims of the Jasenovac concentration camp.

From ANSA, 49 migrants on board the ship Mare Ionio will disembark at Lampedusa.

From the Malta Independent, or will they?

From Malta Today, a Gozitan university group justifies their opposition to the Malta-Gozo tunnel.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland destroys its last remaining cluster bombs.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan wants to restore his country's death penalty.

From Turkish MinuteErdoğan calls members of the Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party who fired at a mosque "godless" and "atheist".

From Rûdaw, Syrian Democratic Forces control the ISIS tent camp in Baghouz, Syria, but say that they are still short of victory.

From Arutz Sheva, the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet conducts its final major maneuver on its way to the moon.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli planes shoot at Gazans launching balloon bombs.

From The Jerusalem Post, IDF troops reportedly kill a terrorist who had carried out a shooting at the Ariel junction.

From YNetNews, "Israel's Gaza conundrum".

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt will get more metro lines.

From Egypt Today, (exported Egyptian) strawberry fields forever.

From Dawn, protests erupt in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir after a teacher dies in police custody.  (The site calls the area "Indian-occupied Kashmir".)

From The Express Tribune, India and Pakistan move closer to making a deal on the Kartarpur Corridor.

From Pakistan Today, the Taliban's second rising.

From Khaama Press, the U.S. embassy in Kabul warns of possible Afghan New Year attacks.

From Gatestone Institute, is Turkey Russian President Putin's ally in NATO?

From the New York Post, an Israeli animal rights groups treats a Gazan parrot.

And from the Mirror, a man who changed his name to "Michael Jackson" regrets doing so.  (via the New York Post)

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