Sunday, May 12, 2019

Stories For Mother's Day

To all the women who have given birth and/or adopted a child, happy Mother's Day.  On your day, here are some things going on:

From CNN, gunmen kill six people attending Catholic mass in Dablo, Burkina Faso.

From Breitbart, Germany considers a "mosque tax", analogous to its "church tax".

From The Daily Caller, "break up Facebook", says........Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal)?

From Fox News, a 70-something man says that three other 70-somethings are too old to be president.

From Scott Adams' Blog, Episode 527, featuring summer fake news, Iran, and the wall.  (That last one is not the Pink Floyd album.)

From National Review, to the radical left, children are not our future, but the enemies of our future.

From Townhall, "it's no fun being an illegal alien".

From The Washington Free Beacon, PetSmart sues PETA.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) points out how immigration law loopholes are bad for immigrants.

From American Thinker, what's cooking, Senator Harris?

From LifeZette, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) works to declassify a "document" about the Steele Dossier.

From The Conservative Woman, how the E.U. has played the British people for fools.

From Free West Media, illegal migrants riot at asylum centers in Regensburg, Germany and Rennes, France.

From the Express, a former U.K. prime minister weighs in on Brexit and gets slapped down.

From the Evening Standard, the U.K. Border Force rescues 26 migrants off the coast of Kent.

From BBC News, according to U.K. Education Secretary Damian Hinds, the European elections are a chance for the "ultimate protest vote".

From the (U.K.) Independent, according to a senior shadow minister, cross-party Brexit talks "are not getting very far".

From the (Irish) Independent, in Ireland, even the gardai must obey traffic laws.

From France24, a debate over a future spire for Notre Dame gets controversial.

From RFI, environmental protesters in Paris express themselves with (fake) blood.

From The Portugal News, Portugal's fuel truck drivers' union and association reach an "agreement in principle".

From Morocco World News, Morocco's crackdown on illegal migrant networks has reduced the pressure on Spain.

From SwissInfo, a Swiss woman and her horses enjoy life in Canada.

From Total Croatia News, "antifascists" from four countries ask Austrian authorities to ban a gathering near Bleiberg.  (I use quotes around "antifascists" because these people are trying to deny someone else the right of peaceful assembly, and are thus themselves acting like fascists.)

From Euronews, protesters take to the streets in Tirana, Albania, as some of them hurl petrol bombs at the prime minister's office gate.

From Independent Balkan News AgencyStevo Pendarovski is inaugurated as the president of North Macedonia.

From Ekathimerini, Greece responds to a Turkish statement on islands in the Aegean Sea.

From the Greek Reporter, petrol bombs are thrown at the SYRIZA party offices in Athens.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarians love to visit Transylvania.

From Radio Poland, a pro-E.U. parade passes through Warsaw.

From Deutsche Welle, U.N. climate change chief Antonio Guterres decries the "fading" efforts to deal with climate change.

From the CPH Post, "everything you need to know about the E.U. elections".

From VRT NWS, 15,000 people participate in a "Silent March" against sexual violence in Antwerp, Belgium.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey accuses Greece of abusing NATO's mission for migrants in the Aegean Sea.

From Turkish Minute, a mayoral candidate in Istanbul withdraws from the city's re-run election.

From Arutz Sheva, 100 terrorists who were released in the Shalit deal have returned to terrorism.

From The Times Of Israel, a man living in northern Israel is arrested for allegedly poisoning vultures in the Golan Heights.

From The Jerusalem Post, congresscritter Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) gets a history lesson from a knessetcritter.

From YNetNews, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu chooses the location for a settlement named Trump.

From Egypt Today, the U.S. hits Egypt with a travel ban - for dogs.

From Rûdaw, at night in Kirkuk, Iraq, please avoid short pants and motorcycles during Ramadan.

From Radio Farda, Iran's president says that sanctions the country currently faces are worse than what it faced during the war with Iraq.

From the Qatar Tribune, 16,000 residents of Qatar benefit from Qatar Charity's Ramadan projects.

From Dawn, a roadside iftar feeds thousands of people in Karachi, Pakistan.

From The Express Tribune, a Chinese fake marriage and human trafficking racket is discovered in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region.  (If you read Urdu, read the story at the Express News.)

From Khaama Press, airstrikes send 14 Taliban and ISIS terrorists to their virgins.

From the Hindustan Times, two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists are killed in Jammu and Kashmir.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan Catholics go to church again.

From Gatestone Institute, a look at the persecution of Christians in February, 2019.

From The Jakarta Post, more than half of the 539 fishing boats sunk by Indonesian authorities came from Vietnam.

From CBC News, why is the Canadian economy in blue skies, but Prime Minister Trudeau gets rained on?

From CTV News, when driving in Canada, please refrain from ramming into the court houses.

From TeleSUR, Ecuador's government reportedly agrees to deliver Julian Assange’s personal materials to the United States.

From Twitchy, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) exposes congresscritter Adam Schiff's (D-Cal) hypocrisy on executive privilege.

From the New York Post, in the Byron Nelson tournament, one golfer uses his better half.

And from CHEEZburger, paybacks are a bitch.

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