Saturday, July 6, 2019

More Saturday Stories

Besides another earthquake in California, here are some things going on:

From Free West Media, four rape suspects in Mallorca turn out to be less Germanic than initially reported.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany urges Italy to allow migrant rescue ships into their ports.

From the NL Times, an explosion rocks buildings in Amsterdam.

From VRT News, in Belgium, a Dutch cyclist wins the first stage of the Tour de France.

From France24, in Belgium, a Dutch cyclist wins the first stage of the Tour de France.

From RFI, France hosts the world's wooliest sports championship.

From EuroNews, 74 French women have been killed by their partners this year.

From the Express, a tourist boat on the Thames smashes into the Westminster Bridge.

From BBC News, seven women receive medical degrees which they earned 150 years ago.

From the Evening Standard, London has its biggest Pride Parade ever.

From the Independent, the London Marathon waives the entry fee for runners called "fat" or "slow".

From the Irish Examiner, hundreds of people march in a Trans Pride parade in Dublin.

From CBC News, the Canadian who helped develop an Ebola vaccine says that more of it is needed in the D. R. Congo.  (The Democratic Republic of the Congo was once the Belgian Congo, and has also been known as Zaire.)

From Global News, climbers in Canada's Jasper National Park find a World War II-era explosive.

From Morocco World News, Moroccan police arrest a Palestinian accused of trading in Bitcoin for terrorist organizations.

From the Malta Independent, migrants which Malta had offered to receive land in the Italian port of Lampedusa.

From SwissInfo, an international maritime tribunal orders Nigeria to release a Swiss oil tanker.

From Total Croatia News, this weekend is very busy for the airport and seaport of Split, Croatia.  (I rode a ferry out of Split in 2007.  If you read Croatian, read the story at Splitski Dnevnik.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, at a summit in Poznań, Poland, the E.U. pledges support for western Balkan countries.

From the Greek Reporter, cliff divers compete in Agios Nikolaos, Crete.  (This activity shows that the boundary between "badass" and "stupid people" can be pretty thin.)

From Radio Bulgaria, a sand sculpture festival in Burgas, Bulgaria chooses "favorite children's characters" as its theme.

From Russia Today, the Russian officers killed in a fire on board a submarine are laid to rest.

From Sputnik International, Russia could bring back the ICBM known as Satan.

From The Moscow Times, people living around Shiyes, Russia against the construction of a garbage dump.

From Daily News Hungary, a body found in the Danube near Makád, Hungary is identified as a victim of the ship collision in Budapest.

From The Slovak Spectator, a look at Šariš Castle in eastern Slovakia.

From Radio Praha, Czech remember the reformer Jan Hus.

From Radio Poland, Poland's governing party holds a convention ahead of parliamentary elections.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey expands its laws against sports-related violence.

From Turkish Minute, a Turkish court rules that purge victims may become lawyers, if they're not currently facing prosecution.

From Rûdaw, unusual animals are for sale at a market in Kirkuk, Iraq.

From Arutz Sheva, former Isreali Prime Minister Ehud Barak names his new party

From The Times Of Israel, the Blue and White rules out merging with other parties.

From The Jerusalem Post, Jordan's parliament considers gun control.

From YNetNews, in an opinion column, those who shield BDS are complicit in it.

From Egypt Today, starting in August, visitors to Egypt's museums will be allowed to take pictures for free.

From Radio Farda, the Iranian government hardens its stance on enriching uranium.

From IranWire, leaks reveal the corruption in Iran.

From Dawn, a U.S. negotiator hails the talks with the Taliban, but denies any schedule for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

From The Express Tribune, the "Road to Makkah" project begins at the Islamabad, Pakistan airport.

From Pakistan Today, according to Pakistani politician Maryam Nawaz, the judge in her father's case was coerced into his decision.

From Khaama Press, Afghan security forces in the province of Zabul send ten terrorists to their virgins.

From the Hindustan Times, two Indians disagree on the significance of the "Jai Sri Ram" slogan.

From ANI, a man is arrested in Hyderabad, India for making a hoax bomb threat.

From India Today, a banner reading "Justice for Kashmir" over a cricket ground during a match between India and Sri Lanka.  (India would probably define "justice for Kashmir" as the withdrawal from the entire region by Pakistan, and Pakistan would probably define the phrase as the withdrawal from the region by India.)

From the Daily Mirror, according to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lankans should not depend on others to build their nation.

From Gatestone Institute, why wishing for President Trump to fail in dealing with Iran is not a good idea.

From The Jakarta Post, despite concerns about pollution, Jakarta still lacks air quality meters.

From The Straits Times, a new round of protests in Hong Kong is sparked by performers known as the "dancing aunties".

From the Borneo Post, Malaysians need to eat more fruit, says the WHO.

From Free Malaysia Today, police in the Malaysian state of Sabah search for fishermen whose fish bombs killed three divers.

From The Conservative Woman, a guide to the new Eurocrats.

From Snouts in the Trough, tear down the borders and let them all in.

From National Review, San Francisco decides to spend a million bucks to destroy a mural showing George Washington.

From Townhall, left-wing media lunacy about illegal immigration.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Democrats pay millions to a firm backed by a former Alphabet chairman.  (Alphabet is the parent company of Google.)

From the Washington Examiner, a Detroit music festival bases ticket prices on race.

From The Federalist, debunking three myths about the Betsy Ross flag.

From American Thinker, "the amazing deflatable Buttigieg".

From LifeZette, former Vice President Biden, after blasting "Medicare for all" from congresscritter AOC (D-NY), wasn't prepared for Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal).

From NewsBusters, the media's fake news on presidents, the 4th of July, and tanks.

From Twitchy, the media should eat crow over their false predictions for President Trump's July 4th event (but they won't).

From the Los Angeles Times, scientists announce an 11 percent chance of another earthquake in southern California.  (via the New York Post)

From Fox News, Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) introduce a bill requiring the federal government to purchase American flags made in America.

From ABC News, an explosion at a shopping center in Plantation, Florida injures 21 people.

And from The Peedmont, Richmond, Virginia does not need a Pompeii exhibit because of nearby Busch Gardens.

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