Sunday, July 21, 2019

Sunday Stuff

As the sun and the heat continue, here are some things going on:

From Free West Media, Berlin has about 8,500 open arrest warrants.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany's ambassador to India visits a "Nazi-inspired" Hindu group.

From Polskie Radio, Poland calls on Iran to release the U.K. oil tanker.

From EuroNews, police in Białystok, Poland arrest 25 people for allegedly attacking LGBT marchers.

From Radio Praha, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš supports the creation of a national security advisor position.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian MEP Balazs Hidveghi finds remarks from new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen "promising".

From Daily News Hungary, a Catholic Church in Atia, Romania is rebuilt with support from Hungary.

From Russia Today, the party formed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gains a parliamentary majority.

From Sputnik International, Russian military experts complete their mission in Venezuela.

From Novinite, a Bulgarian industrial farm is hit with swine fever.

From Ekathimerini, U.S. diplomat Philip T. Reeker begins a visit to Greece and North Macedonia.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece deals with more wildfires.

From Total Croatia News, a problem with tourism in Croatia is shown in two photos.

From Malta Today, "are you being enslaved?"

From SwissInfo, Switzerland's "most dangerous jihadist" is captured in Baghuz, Syria.

From Morocco World News, Jordan reiterates its support for Morocco regarding the Western Sahara conflict.

From The Portugal News, 85 members of Portuguese opposition parties seek judicial review of a law on gender identity.

From France24, a sign bearing the Sackler family name is removed from the Louvre's Oriental Antiquities wing.

From RFI, this year's heatwave takes a toll on French wine production.

From VRT NWS, about 100,000 watch Belgium's National Day military parade.

From the Express, the U.K. sends a nuclear sub to the Persian Gulf.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Chancellor Philip Hammond will not stay in that job if Boris Johnson become Prime Minister.

From the Independent, according to a government minister, a no-deal Brexit will plunge the Tories into opposition for a long time.

From the Irish Examiner, a car is driven into a crowd of people at a cemetery in Dundalk, Ireland.

From CBC News, two Canadian brands of ice cream are recalled due to possible metal content.

From Global News, 29 former Canadian parliamentcritters are looking to retake their old jobs.

From CTV News, Japanese Canadians meet to discuss action, not just an apology, over internment camps during World War II.  (As an American, I'm familiar with similar actions by the U.S., but did not know that Canada did anything like this.)

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey and the U.S. will discuss a possible safety zone in Syria.

From Turkish Minute, the chief prosecutor accuses Turkey's main opposition leader of insulting President Erdoğan.  (If insulting the president were a crime in the U.S., 99.99 percent of us Yanks would be in jail either for insulting Trump or for insulting Obama.  For that matter, you'd probably have to go back to George Washington to find a U.S. president whom very few people insulted.)

From Rûdaw, a Syrian rebel returns from Germany.

From Arutz Sheva, former Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked takes control of the New Right party.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wants to keep ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer in his position for another year.

From The Jerusalem Post, Presidents Trump (U.S.) and Macron (France) plan to visit Israel to observe the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

From YNetNews, girls from religious schools are reportedly not given the same support and preparation to join the IDF as their male and non-religious counterparts.

From the Egypt Independent, Algerian soccer fans riot at the Cairo Airport because their planes are delayed.

From Egypt Today, a look at the new city of Tiba, in the Governate of Luxor.

From StepFeed, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are slowly relying less on oil and more on AI.

From Radio Farda, the U.K. claims that the ship seized by Iran was in Omani waters.

From Dawn, a protest rally set of by Pakistani politician Maryam Nawaz is blocked by police in Faisalabad.

From The Express Tribune, at least nine people were killed in an attack on a police checkpoint and a suicide bomber at a hospital.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan's prime minister seeks investment from U.S. businessmen.

From Khaama Press, it's another premature detonation for the Taliban.

From The Hans India, Indian scientists warn against launching any space mission during Rahu Kaalam.

From the Hindustan Times, how the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 will keep its date with the moon.

From ANI, police in Sukma, India diffuse three IEDs.

From India Today, the new countdown for the Chandrayaan-2 is "going smoothly".

From the Daily Mirror, 12.35 million Sri Lankan Rupees are paid to the families of the victims of the Easter Sunday attacks.

From the Colombo Page, according to Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, new anti-terrorism laws will be introduced.

From the Pakistani Christian Post, a ten-year-old Christian boy working in a scrap factory is reportedly raped and killed by his employers for demanding his full wage.

From Gatestone Institute, the persecution of Christians during May 2019.

From The Conservative Woman, if Boris Johnson gets to be the U.K.'s next prime minister, how long will he stay in office?  (You get to vote.)

From National Review, "abortion continues to not make sense".

From Townhall, students don't know what to make of President Obama's immigration policies.

From The Washington Free Beacon, China has been persecuting the Falun Gong for two decades.

From The Federalist, the site's own David Marcus discusses heartland voters on Fox & Friends.

From American Thinker, the heresy of antinomianism, its author, and its modern day manifestations.

From LifeZette, President Trump's adviser Stephen Miller points out how Americans are "tired" of being "talked down to" by the media and the left.

From The Stream, what five women who regret getting an abortion want other women to know.

From Twitchy, liberals go nuts because Ivanka Trump bought her daughter a white-furred puppy.  (Apparently, people can be racist even about animals.)

From WPVI-TV, Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello won't seek reelection.

From Fox News, the "unexpected legacy" of Justice John Paul Stevens.

From the New York Post, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wants the FAA to require that flight medical kits to include EpiPens.

And from KMOV4, at a coffee shop in Vermont, no shoes, no shirt, no anything, no problem.

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