Monday, June 17, 2019

Monday Links

As another Monday rolls around and the work week starts, here are some things going on:

From WTOP, there are an estimated 10,000 spies in Washington, DC.

From The Dallas Morning News, a man opens fire in a federal court building in Dallas, which turns out to be his last mistake.

From The Daily Wire, Harvard rescinds admission to young conservative Kyle Kashuv, over things he wrote at age 16.

From National Review, liberals have turned against investigating the CIA and the FBI since Trump became president.

From Townhall, infanticide as birth control is not new.

From FrontpageMag, read the essay "The Real History of Slavery".

From The Washington Free Beacon, the SCOTUS rules that private firms are not bound by the First Amendment.

From the Washington Examiner, a cop shoots a fatally shoots a black man in Mayor Pete's city.

From The Federalist, Senators should reject nominees who liken Christians to the KKK.

From American Thinker, how conservatives can beat Big Tech.

From CNS News, Bob O'Rourke would not repeal the law which makes illegal border crossings a criminal offense.

From LifeZette, some key cases for the SCOTUS.

From CBC News, last-minute changes to Quebec's bill on religious symbols raise fears of a "secularism police".

From Global News, five things to know about the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.

From CTV News, Toronto Raptors players are amazed by the love from their fans.

From TeleSUR, a triple suicide bombing kills over 30 people in Nigeria.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia's first-ever archaeology festival is held in Yogyakarta.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka's health minister won't allow the importation of cigarettes.

From the Colombo Page, according its commander, there are no racial, religious or caste differences in Sri Lanka's army.

From The Hans India, a statue of Mahatma Gandhi is vandalized in Balashore, India.

From ANI, Indian police search for 40 Maoists in the state of Telangana.

From India Today, 39 workers return from Saudi Arabia to Telangana.

From Khaama Press, in Helmand and Farah provinces, 40 roadside bombs are destroyed and 10 Taliban terrorists are sent to their virgins.

From Dawn, two policemen in Karachi, Pakistan are killed by gunmen on motorbikes.

From The Express Tribune, Kashmiri leaders in both the Indian and Pakistani sections urge the two countries to resume talks.

From Pakistan Today, a blogger is killed in Islamabad, Pakistan.

From Radio Farda, Iran will increase its supply of enriched uranium.

From IranWire, according to an Iranian journalist, the Afghan media is controlled from Tehran.

From Rûdaw, a car bomb explodes in Qamishli, Syria.

From Arutz Sheva, the U.S. will not invite Israel to its conference in Bahrain.

From The Times Of Israel, Fatah calls off a strike previously intended to protest the conference in Bahrain.  (Fatah was a terrorist group whose founders included Yasser Arafat.)

From The Jerusalem Post, funds from Qatar given to Hamas were not given to poor families.

From YNetNews, Hamas claims that a "new phase of understanding with Israel" is underway.

From the Egypt Independent, former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi dies in court.

From Egypt Today, no recent injuries have been found on Morsi's body.  (The two Egyptian sites spell the former president's name differently from each other.)

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey will host a defense delegation from Greece.

From Turkish Minute, a boat carrying migrants from Turkey to Greece sinks, killing 12 people.

From iNews, the U.K. TV show Top Gear protests Brunei's death penalty for gay sex by painting rainbows on their cars.

From the Business Standard, a church in Niger is torched after an imam is arrested.

From Gatestone Institute, Palestinian leaders crack down on anti-corruption activists.

From The Conservative Woman, Tories vying to become the next prime minister "do their worst".

From Snouts in the Trough, Ramadan is over, but the murders aren't.

From the Express, police in Peterborough, England probe suspected election fraud.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. charities demand an end to greyhound racing, after almost 1,000 of them died last year.

From the (U.K.) Independent, authorities took "too long" to let paramedics treat victims of the London Bridge attack.

From the Irish Independent, Ireland's Green Party accuses the Irish government of "fudging" its climate action plan.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Taoiseach Varadkar, the government will "nudge people to change behaviour" to tackle climate change.

From France24, a Chad rebel leader is arrested for alleged crimes against humanity - at his home in Paris.

From RFI, two French street artists create the largest mural in Europe.

From the NL Times, Dutch customs officers seize over 800 kilos of cocaine in Rotterdam.

From Dutch News, thousands of migrants are stranded in the Netherlands because their home countries won't take them back.

From Deutsche Welle, German federal prosecutors take over a murder case.

From CPH Post, Danish farmers battle the worst case of a fungus that attacks wheat in over 30 years.

From Radio Poland, Polish President Andrzej Duda continues his U.S. tour by visiting Google and YouTube.

From The Slovak Spectator, a spy allegedly involved in the detention of Russian journalist Ivan Golunov is reportedly active in Slovakia.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungary's governing Fidesz party will try to stop the handing of anonymous E.U. debit cards to migrants.

From Daily News Hungary, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, the E.U. must make a U-turn on migration in order to be successful.

From Hungary Today, by reaching the top of Denali in Alaska, a Hungarian lawyer completes the Seven Summits.

From About Hungary, Szijjarto says that Hungary is committed to fighting terrorism.

From Russia Today, Russian SU-27 fighter jets intercept American B-52s above the Black and Baltic Seas.

From Sputnik International, Russia will put more troops on its western border in response to more American troops being in Poland.

From The Moscow Times, a German student is expelled from Russia after writing an article about environmental protests.

From Novinite, Bulgaria joins NATO's cyber defense center.

From the Sofia Globe, the European supercomputer will be built in Sofia, Bulgaria.

From Ekathimerini, the E.U. may suspend its customs union talk with Turkey over its drilling in the eastern Mediterranean.

From the Greek Reporter, the world's first museum of Atlantis opens on an island thought to possibly have been its location.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Serbia and Montenegro agree to high-level police cooperation.

From Total Croatia News, the Croatian opposition party MOST wants a constitutional amendment protecting the right to have drinking water.  (In the Slavic languages, most means "bridge".)

From SwissInfo, a delegation of university rectors from Iran visits Switzerland.

From ANSA, according to Interior Minister Salvini, Italy is the most credible interlocutor of the U.S. in the E.U.

From the Malta Independent, fish heads, fish heads, rolly polly fish heads.

From Malta Today, a Maltese homeowner goes NIMSY.  ("Not In My Side Yard")

From El País, the conservative Popular Party regains the mayoralty of Madrid, with help from the "far-right" Vox party.

From Morocco World News, Morocco will inaugurate the world's largest desalinization plant in 2021.

From CNN, two people are arrested after a reported shooting at or near the Toronto Raptors NBA championship parade.

From NBC News, Bill Cosby still claims to be "America's Dad".

From LifeNews, a baby thought to be disabled is born healthy.

From WPVI-TV, non-alcoholic "wine water" may now be purchased in the U.S.

From the New York Post, a Connecticut man at the JFK airport acts like a real bird-brain.

And from The Babylon Bee, to flush all that solid waste, San Francisco installs a giant toilet handle.

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