Starting with former London Mayor and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson being elected to serve as the U.K.'s next prime minister, here are some things going on:
From BBC News, Boris Johnson wins the race.
From the Express, Johnson puts together his "Brexit dream team".
From the Evening Standard, what Johnson has to say on Brexit, U.S. President Trump, and more.
From the (U.K.) Independent, the E.U. already shoots down Johnson's Brexit plan.
From the (Irish) Independent, what does the election of Johnson mean for Brexit, Ireland and the backstop?
From the Irish Examiner, Irish politicians give a mixed reaction to Johnson's election.
From Euractiv, according to Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland has "profound concerns" about Johnson.
From the NL Times, a woman from Rotterdam, Netherlands is released from custody in Turkey, but is still not allowed to leave the country.
From Dutch News, the Dutch government is asked to send a frigate to the Straits of Hormuz.
From Deutsche Welle, bamboo coffee cups aren't so great, says a German consumer group.
From Free West Media, riots at an asylum center in Bavaria disrupt traffic.
From the CPH Post, living in Copenhagen is gonna cost ya.
From EuroNews, over 150 Santa Clauses gather in Copenhagen. (Now that's what I call "Christmas in July".)
From Polskie Radio, Polish police arrest 36 people after attacks on LGBT marchers in Białystok. (Two days ago, I linked a related EuroNews story which indicated that 25 people were arrested.)
From Radio Praha, due to vandalism, Prague's "Lennon wall" will be more actively protected.
From The Slovak Spectator, the affluent town in Slovakia where support for neo-fascism is common.
From Daily News Hungary, according to a Hungarian prosecutor, a new lead has been found in the investigation of a Syrian man suspected of involvement in murders committed by ISIS.
From Hungary Today, ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine's Transcarpathia region fail to win any parliamentary seats.
From About Hungary, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, pro-migration forces want to make the U.N.'s migration compact mandatory.
From Russia Today, an LGBT activist is murdered in St. Petersburg.
From Sputnik International, South Korean fighter jets fire warning shots at a Russian military plane.
From The Moscow Times, the number of migrants entering Russia reaches a 10-year high.
From Romania-Insider, piranhas are reportedly found in the Firiza artificial lake in northern Romania.
From Novinite, Bulgarian President Rumen Radov vetoes a law ratifying contracts related to the purchase of U.S. F-16 fighter jets.
From The Sofia Globe, a Bulgarian industrial farm will receive compensation for the culling of 17,000 of its pigs.
From Radio Bulgaria, a stone stele dating to 255 A.D. is found in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
From Ekathimerini, a fugitive from Turkey is apprehended in Thessaloniki, Greece.
From the Greek Reporter, descendants of Greek Jews on Rhodes commemorate the Holocaust with a silent march.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, Bulgaria and North Macedonia sign an agreement to combat human trafficking.
From Total Croatia News, according to Interior Minister Davor Božinović, no talks have been held about Croatia taking in migrants from ships, and Boris Johnson used to hang out, with his bicycle, on the Croation island of Brač.
From the Malta Independent, SOS Méditerranée and Medecins Sans Frontières plan to relaunch their rescue operations in the Mediterranean.
From Malta Today, don't cut down trees just to widen roads.
From ANSA, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini will not "find peace" until all seven children taken from their families in Bibbiano are returned. (Salvini appears to opposed family separation that was imposed by social workers.)
From SwissInfo, the number of people immigrating to Switzerland decreases.
From France24, the French National Assembly approves a trade deal between Canada and the E.U.
From RFI, eight E.U. countries agree to a "solidarity mechanism" to resettle migrants.
From El País, on Tenerife, stop building stone towers.
From Morocco World News, Morocco shares its counter-terrorism expertise with European governments.
From CBC News, civil rights groups seek to appeal a judges refusal to freeze parts of Quebec's law on religious symbols.
From Global News, in British Columbia, two teenagers thought to be missing are suspects in a double murder.
From CTV News, Ontario Premier Doug Ford thinks that U.K. Prime Minister-elect Johnson will do a "great job".
From TeleSUR, Venezuela's government says that it's working to restore the power grid in Caracas.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey advances its naval buildup in the eastern Mediterranean.
From Turkish Minute, the bodies of 25 illegal migrants are exposed when snow melts on the Turkey-Iraq border.
From Rûdaw, excavation work begins at three mass graves found in southern Iraq.
From Arutz Sheva, evangelical leader Laurie Cardoza-Moore suggests that U.S. congresscritters Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) enter Israel through tunnels.
From The Times Of Israel, according to U.S. envoy Jason Greenblatt, peace won't be based on "fictions of international consensus".
From The Jerusalem Post, Prime Minister Netanyahu tells Arab journalists that Israel prevents the Middle East from collapse.
From YNetNews, Israeli nurses strike over pay and work conditions.
From Egypt Today, a handwritten copy of the 1953 declaration which abolished Egypt's monarchy.
From StepFeed, an Arab family is kicked off a Romanian flight over a misunderstanding.
From Radio Farda, Iran will be a major challenge for the U.K.'s new prime minister.
From IranWire, a female Iranian pilot makes her first flight as captain.
From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan thanks U.S. President Trump for the hospitality.
From The Express Tribune, Imran Khan is accused of suffering from Nawaz phobia.
From Pakistan Today, Trump accepts an offer to visit Pakistan.
From Khaama Press, the Kabul Air Brigade starts flying Black Hawk helicopters.
From The Hans India, according to the Indian government, terror incidents have decreased.
From the Hindustan Times, U.K. Prime Minister-elect Johnson promises to build on his personal ties with Indian Prime Minister Modi.
From ANI, two Indian zoos exchange white tigers.
From India Today, the Indian Army allows family members of deceased personnel to wear their medals in homage ceremonies.
From the Daily Mirror, a man is rewarded for informing authorities about explosives in two safe houses.
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena defends his administration from accusations over the Easter Sunday terror attacks.
From DC Dirty Laundry, here's congresscritter Ilhan Omar's arrest report for trespassing. ("Kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down.......")
From CultureWatch, mosques are not quite like churches.
From Gatestone Institute, "eat Iran's lunch before they have us for dinner".
From The Jakarta Post, Palestine requests more tariff exemptions from the Indonesian government.
From The Straits Times, the former Chinese Premier known for his crackdown in Tiananmen Square dies at age 90.
From The Borneo Post, good kitty!
From Free Malaysia Today, 173 Orang Asli return home to Kampung Kuala Koh after a 36-day quarantine.
From The Mainichi, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi will start training for a mission aboard a new U.S. spacecraft.
From The Conservative Woman, soon-to-be-former U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May regards children as "things that hold women back".
From National Review, "our democracy is not in crisis".
From FrontpageMag, the U.K. wants to snuff out the fighting spirit represented by Tommy Robinson.
From Townhall, according to congresscritter Ilhan Omar, the U.S. has a responsibility to provide abortions for illegal aliens. (Have I picked on Omar enough for one day? Or not enough?)
From The Washington Free Beacon, green activists having ties to China advised the Obama state department on the Paris agreement. (You know, China, the one country that as of 2015 was producing more carbon dioxide than the U.S.)
From the Washington Examiner, Congress approves funding for a permanent 9/11 victims fund.
From The Federalist, the left needs to deal with the excesses of the trans movement.
From American Thinker, the civil rights movement ain't what it used to be.
From CNS News, House Democrats practice for their hearing with Special Counsel Robert Mueller tomorrow.
From LifeZette, China should be regarded as the bully that it is.
From NewsBusters, Twitter suspends a writer who Tweets to congresscritter AOC (D-NY) about "illegal immigrants".
From the Daily Caller, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will not be watching Mueller's testimony.
From Computer World, is a ZipNostic pilot program the future of low-cost health care?
From Reason, regulators in the E.U. can't detect the gene-edited crops which they banned.
From Breitbart, Maryland Democrats and businessmen try to abolish "single family zoning" to encourage an inflow of immigrants, employees and renters. (Overall, we're very blue in Maryland, including our Congressional delegation and our state legislature, but occasionally we elect a Republican governor.)
From LifeNews, the state of New York, which allows babies to be aborted up until birth, bans the declawing of cats.
From the New York Post, a look at New York City's slowest bus.
And from The Peedmont, a Virginia tax payer is upset at having to pay a whole $3 to use a state park.
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