As the shortened workweek gets underway, here are some things going on:
From Free West Media, according to a friend of his, the suspected Lyon package bomber "was not radical".
From Breitbart, the Lyon bomb suspect is reportedly an illegal alien from Algeria. (If you read French, read more at FranceInfo.)
From France24, French emergency room workers stage a five-minute walkout.
From RFI, a court in Baghdad, Iraq sentences two more French ISIS members to death.
From VRT NWS, what happens to the ballots after they've been counted?
From the NL Times, a transit strike leaves Dutch railroad stations empty, except for confused tourists.
From Dutch News, a housing association in Maastricht, Netherlands wants to keep a Moluccan neighborhood Moluccan. (I had previously thought that only President Jimmy Carter would favor anything like that.)
From Deutsche Welle, instead of Jews being told to remove their yarmulkes, Germans are urged to wear them in solidarity with Jews.
From the CPH Post, please do not ski - yet - on the incinerator in Amager, Denmark.
From Radio Poland, Poland wants to buy American F-35A fighter jets.
From The Slovak Spectator, a look at Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia, where yours truly once stayed.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungary's cabinet calls the persecution of Christians a "concealed humanitarian disaster".
From Hungary Today, will the Hungarian party Fidesz and the European Peoples Party "break up or make up"?
From About Hungary, Hungary supports admitting North Macedonia into the E.U.
From Russia Today, Russia will show its new drone, named Hunter.
From The Moscow Times, Chinese officials are reportedly searching the phones of Russian visitors.
From Euractiv, former Trump aid Steve Bannon finds himself under fire in Kazakhstan.
From Romania-Insider, Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila asks her party "to stop talking about justice".
From Novinite, Bulgaria becomes the first E.U. country to allow the sale of cannabidiol.
From Ekathimerini, police in Thessaloniki, Greece arrest four Pakistanis for holding two people for ransom.
From the Greek Reporter, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras rallies his party for the snap election scheduled for July.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, police in Kosovo arrest a number of people, including their own officials.
From EuroNews, in response to the Kosovo police operation, Serbia puts its own forces on alert.
From Total Croatia News, one official of the HDZ party thinks that Croatia is under attack from.......Pamela Anderson?
From ANSA, it's a mistake to build new walls, says a man who lives in an area surrounded by some very old walls.
From the Malta Independent, a Maltese court rules that there is enough evidence to indict two soldiers for the murder of a migrant from Ivory Coast.
From Malta Today, milkshake tossing will not win political battles.
From El País, will Madrid's new right-wing mayor get rid of the anti-pollution plan for the city center?
From The Portugal News, would anyone like some sardines?
From Morocco World News, Morocco will get a visit from U.S. President Trump's son-in-law.
From TeleSUR, two communist dictatorships strengthen their ties to deal with U.S. sanctions.
From CBC News, Malaysia will send back plastic shipped from Canada.
From Global News, according to Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, China refuses to talk about two Canadians detained in that country.
From CTV News, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen introduces a bill that would add a reference to the rights of indigenous people to Canada's citizenship oath.
From the Daily Mail, Somali parents in London send their children to Somalia because they think it's safer than London.
From the Express, the "shocking amount" of money which the U.K. provides to the E.U.
From the Evening Standard, a watchdog launches an investigation into alleged anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.
From the Independent, beware the no-deal Brexit, says the person who couldn't get a Brexit deal.
From the Irish Examiner, Irish Gardaí believe that a man shot dead in Dublin was an Iranian organized crime hitman.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish prosecutors issue arrest warrants for 100 people over suspected links to FETÖ.
From Turkish Minute, a Turkish pilot deployed to Afghanistan was reportedly falsely charged with flying in an aerial campaign during the 2016 coup.
From Rûdaw, Aramaic is in danger of becoming extinct in Maalula, Syria.
From Arutz Sheva, a Knesset committee approves a bill to dissolve the Knesset.
From The Times Of Israel, the Israeli Likud and Kulanu parties agree to a merger.
From The Jerusalem Post, negotiations between Israel and Lebanon to demarcate their land and maritime borders enter their final phase.
From YNetNews, in the Middle East, Ramadan has been good for Facebook and Google.
From Egypt Today, Egypt and Switzerland sign an agreement to provide clean drinking water in the Aswan region.
From Radio Farda, a female immigrant from Iran wins a seat in the Belgian parliament.
From IranWire, the excuse for raiding an Assyrian church in Tabriz, Iran was that the worshipers were drinking wine, something normally allowed.
From the Qatar Tribune, hardliners back the Sudanese army to keep sharia in place.
From Dawn, a Hindu veterinarian in Mirpurkhas, Pakistan is arrested for blasphemy.
From The Express Tribune, in South Waziristan, a law known as Section 144 is imposed, which temporarily bans things such as public gatherings, rallies and processions. (If you read Urdu, read the story at the Express News.)
From Pakistan Today, the daughter of a former Pakistani Prime Minister fires a "broadside" at the current one.
From Khaama Press, operations in Afghanistan's Paktiya province send dozens of Taliban terrorists to their virgins.
From The Hans India, the government of Lakshadweep prepares for the possible arrival of a boatload of ISIS terrorists sailing from Sri Lanka. (Lakshadweep is a group of islands west of mainland India, which form a Union Territory within that country.)
From the Hindustan Times, police arrest a man in Mumbai, India for reciting the triple talaq.
From ANI, six Bangladesh nationals are placed in police custody for having fake documents.
From the Daily Mirror, a team from India's National Investigation Agency arrives in Sri Lanka.
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka's government considers relief for musical groups affected by the Easter Sunday bombings.
From the Himalayan Times, deaths rise on Mount Everest as the Nepalese government issues more climbing permits.
From Gatestone Institute, the Jew-hatred in western Europe is not surprising.
From The Conservative Woman, a writer has some questions for the Brexit Party.
From National Review, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) proposes requiring DOJ clearance for state laws restricting abortion.
From Townhall, President Trump criticizes then-Senator Joe Biden's support for the 1994 crime bill, thus joining some Democrats.
From FrontpageMag, a Hezbollah sleeper agent, who had become a U.S. citizen, is convicted of plotting terror attacks.
From the Daily News, congresscritter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) will return to bartending for a day. (via The Washington Free Beacon)
From The Washington Free Beacon, SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas writes a "fiery condemnation" of eugenic abortion.
From the Washington Examiner, Missouri could become the first state to have no abortion clinics.
From The Federalist, "why Europe's shocking right turn is an opportunity for the United States". (The article notes that anyone in Europe who is to the right of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci is labeled "far-right".)
From American Thinker, when President Obama declared war on Donald Trump. (I don't refer to Trump as "President Trump" in this case, because when the war was declared, Trump was not yet president.)
From CNS News, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WS) does the math on illegal border crossings.
From The Bulwark, neocon writer Bill Kristol thinks that Trump is more vulnerable than ever to a primary challenge. (via Twitchy)
From NewBusters, YouTube restricts the documentary video #Borderless.
From the New York Post, Burger King's meatlesss "Impossible Whopper" appears to have boosted sales.
And from Newsweek, a weatherman tells people to stop complaining about tornado warnings interrupting The Bachelorette.
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