Sunday, April 21, 2019

Links For Easter Sunday

As Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, here are some things going on:

From the Express, British veterans don't appreciate Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn calling SAS soldiers "lawless".

From BBC News, deputy Labour leader Tom Watson says that his party "must" support a second Brexit referendum.

From the Evening Standard, happy 93rd birthday to a famous World War II-era truck mechanic.

From the (U.K.) Independent, how upcoming elections are dividing the E.U. parliament over Brexit.

From the (Irish) Independent, two stolen ATMs have been recovered after being burnt.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish President Michael Higgins leads a commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising.

From RFI, musicians put on a benefit concert to raise funds for the repair of Notre Dame Cathedral.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland deports rejected asylum seekers at a far greater rate than the E.U.

From the Malta Independent, Pope Francis denounces the "cruel violence" in Sri Lanka.

From Malta Today, Maltese Catholics celebrate Easter by running with statues.

From Total Croatia News, at a Croatian church in Munich, Germany, the Easter mass gets an Islamic interruption.  (It's not terrorism, the guy is mentally ill, so the article states.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, North Macedonians calmly hold a presidential election.

From Ekathimerini, souvlaki is gonna cost ya more, pilgrim.

From the Greek Reporter, police and anarchists clash in the Exarchia district of Athens.

From Novinite, Orthodox Christians celebrate Palm Sunday.

From Russia Today, a comedian wins the Ukrainian presidential election.

From Sputnik International, a man goes to the roof of the Venezuelan embassy in Moscow.

From Daily News Hungary, over 5,700 Hungarians register to vote in the European elections from outside Hungary.

From Hungary Today, the people of Kéthely, Hungary really are the eggmen.

From Radio Praha, some Easter music from the Czech band Hradišťan.

From Radio Poland, Poles attend church services on Easter Sunday.

From VRT NWS, a Belgian woman living in Sri Lanka narrowly escapes the attacks.

From Global News, Canadian security officials ask their U.S. counterparts for help.

From CTV News, police search for two people who stole over $6,200 in toothbrushes.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey's ruling party appeals to have the vote in Ankara cancelled.

From Turkish Minute, police shown harassing the mothers of hunger striking prisoners are investigated.

From Rûdaw, an Iraqi court sentences four ISIS terrorists to death.

From Arutz ShevaSri Lankan emergency teams responding to today's terror attack had been trained in Israel.

From The Times Of Israel, four gunmen with possible ties to ISIS attack Saudi policemen and end up dead.

From The Jerusalem Post, the ties between Passover, Easter and the Last Supper.

From YNetNews, on Passover, global warming hits the Golan Heights.

From the Egypt Independent, Copts celebrate Palm Sunday.

From Egypt Today, Egyptians vote in the second day of their constitutional referendum.

From Pakistan Today, at the Chaman border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, everyone will be given anti-polio drops.

From Khaama Press, in Afghanistan's Zabul province, 28 terrorists are sent to their virgins.

From Graphic Online, the chief imam of Nigeria, who turns 100 in two days, joins a Catholic Easter Mass in Accra.

From Gatestone Institute, other Nigerian Muslims haven't been so kind to Christians.

From The Conservative Woman, Christians must fight against persecution.

From National Review, the church - and I don't just mean the building - will be rebuilt.

From Townhall, how Jesus changed the world.

From the Washington Examiner, an armed member of a civilian border group is arrested in New Mexico.

From American Thinker, what the media ignored in the Mueller report.

From NewsBusters, one reporter won't leave Mueller alone - as he comes out of his church.

From Legal Insurrection, a statue worth getting rid of.

From Fox News, at an amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri, a fight involving 300 teenagers breaks out.

From the New York Post, a modern good Samaritan pulls a woman out of the East River.

And from the Hill Reporter, in a Tweet, President Trump vastly overestimates the death toll in Sri Lanka.

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