Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Tuesday Things

As another sunny but cool Tuesday rolls around, here are some things going on:

From Arutz Sheva, Turkey condemns Prime Minister Neyanyahu's affirmation of Israel as the Jewish nation state as "blatant racism".  (H/T Gadi Adelman for the Tweet)

From The Times Of Israel, police seal off the Temple Mount after a firebomb is thrown at some of them.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli police arrest the leaders of a "massive" cannabis distribution network.

From YNetNews, some Israeli politicians warm up to cannabis.

From the Egypt Independent, Egyptian security forces arrest a suspected smuggler of ancient mummified body parts.

From Rûdaw, the effort by Syrian Defense Forces against ISIS has become "a street war".

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey offers citizenship to Meskhetian Turks currently living in the U.S., where they are also citizens.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey detains 102 people for using ByLock.

From Ekathimerini, the IMF tells Greece to finish the economic reforms that they started.

From Novinite, according to Bulgarian Commissioner Mariya Gabriel, migration is a sensitive subject.

From Balkan Independent News Agency, contrary to rumor, says the government of North Macedonia, there will be no exchange of monuments with Greece.

From Total Croatia News, video footage shows Croatian policemen forcing detained migrants to chant "Dinamo Zagreb".  (If they were to detain me, I'd probably yell out "Go Hokies!"  If you read Croatian, read the story at Index.)

From ANSA, Italian Interior Minister Salvini warns everyone to be careful about the new "Silk Road".

From the Malta Independent, 13 migrants abscond from a reception center in Marsa, Malta.

From Malta Today, Malta closes its airspace to the Boeing 737 MAX.

From El País, in a single week, three migrant youth centers in Catalonia are attacked.

From France24, France and Germany close their airspace to the Boeing 737 MAX.

From RFI, French President Emmanuel Macron visits Djibouti.  (Djibouti was once a French possession under the name French Somaliland.)

From the Express, the U.K. House of Commons rejects the latest version of Prime Minister May's Brexit deal.

From the Evening Standard, the U.K. closes its airspace to the Boeing 737 MAX.

From the (U.K.) Independent, "what is the Irish border plan and why is it so controversial?"

From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland does not oppose delaying Brexit, but the U.K. must have a plan.

From the Irish Examiner, what's going on with Brexit?

From The Irish News, a group calling itself the "IRA" claims responsibility for parcel bombs sent to Britain.  (via the Independent)

From CBC News, four unanswered questions about SNC-Lavalin.

From CTV News, Canada has no plans to ground the Boeing 737 MAX.

From Mexico News DailyAeroméxico decides to temporarily ground its Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.

From VRT NWS, the airline TUIfly grounds its Belgium-based Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.

From the NL Times, Dutch policemen - 1, man who threatened them with a meat cleaver - 0.

From Dutch News, Islamic organizations call for board of Amsterdam’s Islamic high school to resign.

From Deutsche Welle, an Iraqi man confesses to murdering a 14-year-old German girl.

From Radio Poland, Poland is in talks with the U.S. to purchase F-35 fighter jets, says Polish President Andrzej Duda.

From Radio Praha, a look at the Czech army in its NATO missions.

From The Slovak Spectator, the number of British companies in Slovakia is at an all-time high.

From the Hungary Journal, EPP leader Manfred Weber gives a "vague" statement after meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Orban.

From Daily News Hungary, 61 million surveyed central Europeans reject migration.

From Hungary Today, as Weber arrives in Hungary, billboards depicting E.U. leader Jean-Claude Juncker and George Soros disappear.

From About Hungary, the European Commission wants to facilitate immigration from Africa through pilot projects.

From Russia Today, Russia shows off its new rocket engine.

From Sputnik International, an energy policy adviser to two U.S. presidents says that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is not a significant threat to U.S. gas.

From The Moscow Times, Russian doctors claim to have Europe's first surgery aided by exoskeletons.

From Radio Farda, the U.S. and Amnesty International condemn a 33-year sentence given to an Iranian rights defender.

From Dawn, women have the right to talk about everything they face.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan successfully test-fires a long-range "smart missile".

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan tells German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas that the world must take notice of atrocities in Kashmir.

From Khaama Press, after 16 days, the fifth round of talks between the U.S. and the Taliban comes to an end.

From Yahoo News, a mosque chairman in Singapore admits to embezzlement.

From the Dundalk Democrat, the Irish ISIS bride is described as being "vulnerable" and "naive".

From FrontpageMag, Fox News condemns Judge Jeanine Pirro for asking if congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-MN) if pro-sharia.

From National Review, a federal appeals court rules that Ohio can cut off funding for Planned Avoidance of Parenthood.

From Townhall, Trump is not the first president to sign bibles.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Southern Poverty Law Center is not living in poverty.

From the Washington Examiner, Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) roll out a conservative version of paid parental leave.

From The Federalist, if Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) believed her claims about Trump and Russia, she would move to impeach him.

From American Thinker, why South Africa deserves sanctions.

From CNS News, five "dire" predictions about the climate which never came true.

From LifeZette, Trump wants to bring in immigrants who won't be dependent on the government.

And from the New York Post, Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) blows out his birthday candles one by one.

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