Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Wednesday Links

Here in the middle of the week in the middle of the month are some things going on:

From Russia Today, Russian scientists warn that space junk could turn the sky dark.  (How much space junk comes from Russia is not stated.)

From Sputnik International, the first launch of a Soyuz MS spaceship on a Soyuz-2 rocket is planned for 2020.  (How much space junk will this launch create?)

From The Moscow Times, Russian scientists are developing a device that could pull space junk out of orbit.

From Daily News Hungary, a majority of surveyed Europeans believe that preserving Christian culture is important.

From Hungary Today, the Hungarian agriculture ministry welcome an E.U. bill about double standards in food labeling.

From About Hungary, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Hungary will buy natural gas from the Turk Stream pipeline.

From The Slovak Spectator, foreigners in Slovakia may apply online for a residence permit.

From Radio Praha, millions are spent every year on fire prevention for the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague.

From Radio Poland, Polish conservatives urge Poland to hold off on adopting the Euro.

From Deutsche Welle, despite international protest, a German AfD lawmaker will travel to Crimea.

From the NL Times, near Wouw, Netherlands, police find 114 kilos of MDMA in a car.

From Dutch News, the Dutch Supreme Court rules that the government was wrong to strip two jihadis of their Dutch citizenship.

From VRT NWS, are beguines ready to return to Flanders?  (My two visits to Bruges, Belgium included tours of the begijnhof area, in which beguines had lived in times past.)

From France24, restoring Notre Dame Cathedral will involve some tough decisions.

From RFI, by donating millions of Euros for the restoration of Notre Dame, French billionaires would receive large tax deductions.

From the Express, according to a British political commentator, May is no Thatcher.

From the Evening Standard, scores of policemen demand that climate protesters leave London's Parliament Square.  (As I have occasionally pointed out, since China was world's largest carbon dioxide producer in 2015, these protesters should go to the Chinese embassy.  If anyone knows of any more recent information which would indicate that the Chinese have significantly cut their emissions, please provide a link in a comment.)

From the (U.K.) Independent, according to opinion polls, Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party will do well in the upcoming European elections.  (If Brexit ever happens, Farage and his fellow U.K. MEPs will be out of a job and have to return home.)

From the (Irish) Independent, some Irish Presbyterians protest Jesus Christ Superstar.

From the Irish Examiner, almost 150 asylum seekers in Ireland have lived in direct provision centers for at least seven years.

From The Irish Post, in Dublin, Bono meets the Speaker.

From The Irish News, four pipe bombs turn up in Northern Ireland.

From CBC News, the Canadian federal government is called "Big Brother" for its carbon pricing law.

From Global News, police in Hamilton, Ontario spot an expired sticker and find drugs and an illegal weapon.

From CTV News, Alberta gets a new premier.

From El País, Spanish election officials suspend a debate that would have included a member of the Vox party.

From The Portugal News, due to a strike by hazardous goods truck drivers, Portuguese fuel stations are starting to run dry.

From Morocco World News, Moroccan and Spanish authorities team up to catch a suspected terrorist.

From the Malta Independent, Spain relents and allows NGO ships to deliver humanitarian aid.

From Malta Today, the planned Malta-Gozo tunnel get bipartisan support in Malta's parliament.

From ANSA, Italian Interior Minister Salvini claims to have the authority to decide on migrant landings.

From SwissInfo, why over 70 percent of inmates in Swiss prisons are foreigners.

From Total Croatia News, the U.S. State Department's Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues meets with Croatian officials.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Bosnia and Hercegovina sentences a former ISIS terrorist to prison.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek parliament votes to demand reparations from Germany over World War II.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece posts a surplus of €1.85 billion.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey detains 139 illegal irregular migrants in the province of İzmir.  (Yes, that is a dot over a capital "I".)

From Turkish Minute, Turkey's ambassador to Tunisia denies that Turkey has sent ISIS terrorists to Libya.

From Rûdaw, Raqqa, Syria rebuilds its water and sewer systems bit by bit.

From Arutz Sheva, recently reelected Prime Minister Netanyahu now gets to the real job.

From The Times Of Israel, Christians in Gaza still await permits to visit Jerusalem for Easter.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel has reportedly detained 1,600 Palestinians in 2019.

From YNetNews, President Trump's peace plan will be unveiled in June, by his son-in-law.

From Egypt Today, Egypt will hold a referendum proposed constitutional amendments this Friday.

From Radio Farda, a former Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard general claims that members of the organization were in Bosnia, disguised as aid workers.  (If they indeed were disguised as Red Crescent personnel, it would have been a war crime, thus earning them their recent terrorist designation.)

From Dawn, Taliban representatives "slam" a list of Afghan guests for their upcoming conference.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani Hajj pilgrims may undergo immigration processing in Karachi.

From Khaama Press, a suicide bomber in Afghanistan's Faryab province experiences premature detonation.

From The Jakarta Post, voters in Jakarta protest the presence of an Islamic flag at a polling station.

From The Straits Times, a bitcoin-rich couple could face the death penalty because of their "sea home" floating just outside Thailand's territorial waters.

From Gatestone Institute, the German government has become anti-Israel and pro-Iran.

From FrontpageMag, should Spartacus pay reparations to himself?

From National Review, some questions for supporters of "Medicare for all".

From Townhall, criticizing congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is not incitement.  (I would add that criticism of anyone is not incitement.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg's definition of "pluralism" is a bit selective.

From Twitchy, Buttigieg discusses assault rifles and lays down the male bovine waste.

From the Washington Examiner, two men in Maryland are charged with assaulting a robbing a man wearing a MAGA hat.

From The Federalist, what to expect from Democrats when the Mueller report comes out.

From American Thinker, how illegal aliens enter the U.S. as "ready-made Democrats".

From CNS News, some people celebrate the Notre Dame Cathedral fire.

From LifeZette, Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people includes both Brett Kavanaugh and his main accuser.  (I suppose you could call this being "even-handed".)

From WPVI-TV, the Trump administration announces new restrictions on remittances to Cuba.

From the New York Post, a robot helped partially save Notre Dame.  (If you read French, read a related story at FranceInfo.)

And from CBS Denver, the manhunt for a woman in Colorado, reportedly obsessed with the Columbine massacre, ends with her apparent suicide.

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