Saturday Stuff

As the latest weekend is upon us, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a bunch of "own goals".

From Townhall, the mother of Democrat presidential candidate Julian Castro helped found an organization of racistas.

From The Washington Free Beacon, climate activists gather at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.  (The Chinese embassy can't be too far away, can it?)

From the Washington Examiner and the "believe it or not" department, the 9th Circuit rules in President Trump's favor on sanctuary cities.

From American Thinker, what George Orwell got right in 1984.

From LifeZette, New York's Mr. Bill says that his city will not cooperate with ICE.

From NewsBusters, according to Rush Limbaugh, the feud between congresscritter AOC (D-NY) and Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) is funny, but not the real story.

From Breitbart, how the media, looking for bigotry, invent the "hoaxtroversy".

From CBS News, Hurricane Barry hits Louisiana.

From Global News, a Canadian is detained in Yantai, China.

From the Express, the Brexit Party is now the second most popular party in the U.K.

From BBC News, according to Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, the Iranian tanker seized by the U.K. could be released if it doesn't take its oil to Syria.

From the Evening Standard, one Briton is among the 26 people people killed in a terror attack in Kismayo, Somalia.

From the (U.K.) Independent, two woman are removed from a plane after complaining about three Muslim men in prayer shawls.  (The plane was about to take off from Dalaman, Turkey.  The presence of Muslims, with or without shawls, should not be surprising on a plane that's taking off from a Muslim country.)

From the (Irish) Independent, a man from Cork, Ireland faces deportation from the U.S.  (He overstayed his original visa.)

From France24, 21 migrants from Africa are arrested after hundreds of them entered the Pantheon in Paris.

From VRT NWS, a man in Ostend, Belgium sets a world record for sitting on the toilet.

From Free West Media, a migrant from Africa beheads a woman in Kerkrade, Netherlands.

From Deutsche Welle, German Chancellor Merkel honors the would-be assassins of Hitler.

From the CPH Post, happy 50th to Denmark's Prince Joachim.

From Radio Praha, the Czech branch of Transparency files a slander suit against Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.

From The Slovak Spectator, a look at Belianska Cave, which you really should hear.

From the Hungary Journal, "take help where it's needed", says Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Organ meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang.

From Sputnik International, Moscow launches fireworks to celebrate the liberation of Vilnius, Lithuania from the Germans 75 years ago.

From The Moscow Times, Russia delivers more S-400 equipment to Turkey.

From Morocco World News, the Moroccan House of Councillors passes a law regulating sharia-compliant insurance.

From SwissInfo, climate activists protest at the Zurich airport.

From the Malta Independent, the wife of Malta's prime minister swims 14 kilometers for charity.  (She thus receives this blog's "badass" label.)

From Total Croatia News, the two most popular tourist destinations in Croatia are Dubrovnik and Split.  (Yours truly visited both in 2007.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Serbian opposition leader Dragan Djilas calls for a boycott of the country's elections.

From Ekathimerini, evidence of 4,600-year-old architecture is found on the uninhabited Greek islet of Daskalio.

From the Greek Reporter, swimmers at a beach in Chalkida, Greece kill a swordfish.

From Novinite, Bulgaria's finance minister seeks to include money for the purchase of F-16 jets in the country's budget.

From The Sofia Globe, an outbreak of swine fever occurs in Zidarovo, Bulgaria.

From Radio Bulgaria, a science center shows children how to design a non-powered airplane.

From Romania-Insider, Romanian tennis player Simona Halep wins Wimbledon.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey welcomes a proposal by the Turkish Cypriot president for a joint use of the area's hydrocarbons with the Greek side.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli politician Ehud Barak says that "there's not claim against me for any offense" in relation to Jeffery Epstein.

From The Times Of Israel, Gibraltar releases four crew members of the seized Iranian tanker on bail.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli Education Minister Rafi Peretz claims to have provided conversion therapy to gays.

From YNetNews, poems written by World War II-era Soviet Jews will be set to music.

From Egypt Today, coffins made of stone, pottery and wood are found near the pyramid of Pharaoh Amenemhat II.

From StepFeed, some places in Cairo which have stood the test of time.

From Radio Farda, the foreign ministers of the U.K. and Iran discuss the detained oil tanker and jailed dual citizens.

From IranWire, an Iranian man believed to have been involved in the 1979 taking of U.S. hostages is sentenced to prison for claiming that the 2009 presidential election was rigged.

From Dawn, traders in Pakistan go on strike.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president Maryam Nawaz liken each other to mafiosi.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan's railways minister claims that Nawaz "has destroyed her party".

From Khaama Press, it's another busy day for the good guys in Afghanistan.

From the Hindustan Times, meet the women behind India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft.

From ANI, the Indian state of Assam is hit by floods.

From India Today, the Indian parliament starts to consider a bill to make sex crime laws gender neutral.

From the Colombo Page, all Sri Lankans will be permitted to own land.

From Gatestone Institute, "Sweden is at war".

From The Spectator, Western governments abandon fighters who fought against ISIS.

From The Straits Times, Hong Kong protesters clash with police near Shenzhen.

From Free Malaysia Today, a committee is set up to investigate claims of birth control being forced on Orang Asli women.

From The Stream, politics, religion and chicken sandwiches.

From The Blaze, AOC is a "complete fraud", according to.........Democrats.

From the New York Post, Chevron spills huge amounts of oil and water in California.

From WPVI-TV, a man is arrested after spending 21 hours on top of the Bethlehem SteelStacks.

From The Washington Times, a Maryland police officer is caught using a slur.

And from Twitchy, according to National Geographic, the remake of The Lion King errs about feminism.