Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Wednesday Links

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

From Free West Media, Germany fights the patriarchy of the bike paths.

From Deutsche Welle, asylum seekers in a refugee center in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany have endured "inhumane" conditions.

From the CPH Post, the (U.S. Coast Guard ship) Eagle has landed in Denmark.

From Radio Poland, according to the head of the World Jewish Congress, Poles should not be blamed for the locations of the Nazi concentration camps.

From The Slovak Spectator, the Slovak parliament rescinds a ban on foreign national anthems.

From the Hungary Journal, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Prime Minister Orban and U.S. President Trump share some similar approaches.

From Daily News Hungary, in the European elections, Hungarian opposition party Jobbik proposes a guard to oversee migrant workers in Hungary.

From Hungary Today, according to Hungary's defense minister, the security of the western Balkans in a priority for Hungary.

From About Hungary, according to Orban, his meeting with Trump "was a good day for Hungary".

From Russia Today, people protesting the rebuilding of a church in Ekaterinburg, Russia get violent.

From Sputnik International, a U.S. surveillance drone flies near the western border of Russia.

From The Moscow Times, Russia is still having problems with contaminated oil.

From Romania-Insider, anti-government protesters who were present at the ruling party's rallies could be facing investigation.

From Novinite, "have you seen the bigger piggies?"

From Ekathimerini, anarchists attack police officers guarding an event held by the political party New Democracy.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece plans to restore the palace where Alexander the Great was born.

From Independent Balkan News AgencyTurkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu claims that Cyprus's natural gas should be transported through Turkey.

From Total Croatia News, two Croatian ministers will attend the controversial commemoration of the victims of the Bleiburg tragedy.

From ANSA, eight migrant children get to ride the popemobile.

From the Malta Independent, a Facebook post asks if migrants in Malta should be allowed to vote, and receives mostly negative responses.

From Malta Today, the Sea-Watch 3 rescues 65 migrants off the Libyan coast.

From Morocco World News, Morocco calls for a census of the refugees in the Tindouf camps.  (Tindouf is in western Algeria and borders with Morocco.)

From The Portugal News, Portugal rejects lowering its voting age to 16.

From El País, Spain's acting prime minister faults Catalan separatists for blocking a Socialist from being designated as a Senator.

From France24, French President Macron and New Zealand Prime Minister Ardern will host a summit meeting against online extremism.  (Will extremism be defined equally for both sides of aisle?  Yeah, I know.  I won't hold my breath waiting for that sort of thing.)

From RFI, French politician Marine Le Pen is "on the spot" as "anti-immigrant" parties gather in Estonia.  (If you want immigration into your country regulated by the elected representatives of your own government, instead of your country being forced by E.U. bureaucrats in Brussels to take in everyone who is rescued from a rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea or manages to sneak into Greece or Bulgaria across their land borders with Turkey, you might be "anti-immigrant".)

From VRT NWS, a proposal by the Flemish party N-VA to raise the retirement age draws reaction from other parties.

From the NL Times, a Dutch court rules that a newspaper is not allowed to publish the name of a professor under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct.

From Dutch News, the village of Giethoorn reinforces its bridges because tourists renting canal boats keep bumping into them.  (I was in Giethoorn two years ago, but did not rent any canal boats.  Thus, I plead "not guilty" to causing any damage to their bridges.)

From the Express, Brexit-supporting Tory MP Peter Bone pulls out a letter signed by other Tories asking Prime Minister Theresa May to resign.

From the Evening Standard, a crate of bananas from Costa Rica opened in Netherfield, Nottinghamshire, England includes one of Kermit's relatives.

From the (U.K.) Independent, a 16-year-old refugee from Syria sues British activist Tommy Robinson.

From the (Irish) Independent, U.S. President Trump plans to visit Ireland "within weeks".

From the Irish Examiner, Irish farmers and food producers defend their climate change roles.  (One of them points out that while there are electric cars, there is no "electric cow".)

From Hürriyet Daily News, nine Turks are acquitted of terror-related charges in a Greek court.

From Turkish Minute, two people with alleged terror links are arrested after trying to force their way into the Turkish parliament.

From Rûdaw, the U.S. pulls its "non-emergency" personnel out of Iraq.

From Arutz Sheva, "the good, the bad and the ugly" about the Eurovision contest going on in Tel Aviv.

From The Times Of Israel, Gazans hold Nabka Day protests "without major incident".

From The Jerusalem Post, NASA finds the crashed Israeli spacecraft Beresheet.

From YNetNews, the man who should be blamed for the Nabka.

From Egypt Today, Egypt reportedly blacklists 600 people for funding the Muslim Brotherhood.

From Radio Farda, U.K. Prime Minister May is "deeply concerned" about Iran's jailing of a British Council employee.

From IranWire, this year 57 million Iranians will live in poverty.

From the Qatar Tribune, Qatar will capitalize due to the global demand for natural gas.

From Dawn, a 20-year-old student in the Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir is killed by allegedly "unprovoked" shooting by Indian troops across the Line of Control.  (Pakistanis call the part of Kashmir controlled by their country "Azad Kashmir", the word azad meaning "free".)

From Pakistan Today, 93 Pakistanis deported from the U.S. are detained upon their arrival at the Islamabad airport.

From Khaama Press, a would-be suicide bomber in Afghanistan's Maidan Wardak province is shot dead before reaching his target.

From The Hans India, an Indian woman stuck in Muscat, Oman is saved by the Indian embassy.

From the Hindustan Times and maybe the "no good deed goes unpunished" department, a Muslim man defies a curfew and drives his pregnant Hindu neighbor to a hospital.

From the Daily Mirror, a man is arrested with a stockpile of weapons in Dehiwala, Sri Lanka.

From Ahval, a Turkish theologian is under fire for "converting" an Armenian boy to Islam on TV.

From UCA News, a 15-year-old Pakistani Christian girl is raped and forcibly converted to Islam.

From Gatestone Institute, the Palestinian leadership cracks down on freedom of expression.

From CBC News, Canada is being invaded by wild pigs.

From Global News, the number of asylum seekers entering Canada illegally "irregularly" has declined from a year ago.

From CTV News, Oxfam Canada demands universal government-funded childcare.

From TeleSUR, left-wing activists occupying the defunct Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C. receive food from a very famous left-wing activist.

From National Review, when did the left stop supporting a defendant's right to legal counsel?

From Townhall, one important aspect of the story about Russians hacking two Florida counties will be buried.

From FrontpageMag, the terrorist training camp found in Alabama has connections to the one found in New Mexico.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a group of U.S. lawmakers want Poland to resolve Holocaust-era claims before Fort Trump is built.

From the Washington Examiner, Virginia plans to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway.

From The Federalist, five crazy things that the transgender activists want to teach your kids.

From American Thinker, the left's definition of "hate".

From CNS News, Trump honors a police officer who was allegedly killed by an illegal alien.

From LifeZette, how an abortion affects a man 20 years afterwards.  (Perhaps this might explain what's wrong with the "no uterus, no opinion" argument.)

From the New York Post, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) signs a bill that would ban just about all abortions.

And from The Peedmont, Dominion Energy hires rapper Ja Rule as an environmental consultant for the Riverrock Festival.

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