As we get to the end of the first full workweek in August, here are some things going on:
From Free West Media, a court in Paderborn, Germany rules that a bank may not terminate the account of the Identitarian Movement.
From Deutsche Welle, the U.S. might withdraw some troops from Germany.
From the CPH Post, a round-up of what's going on in Denmark.
From Polskie Radio, Polish sejmcritters elect their new speaker. (A sejmcritter is the Polish equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter.)
From Radio Praha, the Czech Environment Ministry warns that the rodenticide Stutox-II will kill lots more than rodents.
From The Slovak Spectator, you can reset your head in Slovakia's Veľká Fatra mountains.
From Daily News Hungary, all you need to know about the yurts which the ancient Magyars lived in.
From Hungary Today, Hungarian opposition party Jobbik wants the government to follow Austria's way of dealing with housing problems.
From About Hungary, according to Hungarian official Tamás Deutsch, the success of the Maccabi games shows that Budapest can host the Olympics.
From Russia Today, nine people are injured in a new explosion at a Siberian ammo dump.
From Sputnik International, the Russian Foreign Ministry slams the Japanese government for putting the southern Kuril Islands on a map of Japan.
From The Moscow Times, Russian protesters hurt by policemen in Moscow seek redress in court.
From Romania-Insider, dinosaur nests with eggs are found in Romania's Tara Hategului region.
From Novinite, additional security measures against swine fever are taken in Bulgaria's Shumen region.
From The Sofia Globe, the U.S. Navy ship USS Porter visits the port of Varna, Bulgaria.
From Radio Bulgaria, a report on Bulgaria's "swine crisis".
From Ekathimerini, an Iranian migrant is arrested for allegedly biting a police officer's leg.
From the Greek Reporter, a "trove" of ancient artifacts is found on the Greek island of Tinos.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, Kosovo decides to not recognize Serbian passports.
From Total Croatia News, the Croatian city of Poreč lowers its carbon dioxide output by 4 percent. (If you read Croatian, read the story at Morski.)
From the Malta Independent, actor Richard Gere visits migrants aboard the ship Open Arms.
From ANSA, Italy's League party present a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.
From SwissInfo, young climate activists march through Lausanne, Switzerland. (Wouldn't the Chinese embassy be located in Berne, which is Switzerland's capital?)
From El País, remembering the Spanish who died at Germany's Mauthausen concentration camp.
From The Portugal News, the Portuguese environmental group Zero call for two coal-fired power plants to be decommissioned by 2023. (The picture in the article shows what I think is a nuclear power plant.)
From France24, the rescue ship run by the French organization Doctors Without Borders picks up 85 migrants off the Libyan coast.
From RFI, French teenagers launch a campaign against discarded cigarette butts.
From VRT NWS, at the Pairi Daiza animal park in Belgium's province of Hainaut, twin pandas are born.
From EuroNews, a guest wearing blackface is seen during a party on the grounds of Belgium's Africa Museum.
From the NL Times, an ATM in Waalwijk, Netherlands is blown open by a bomb.
From Dutch News, the first 50 Konik horses leave the Oostvaardersplassen reserve in the Netherlands for a new home in Belarus. (The name "Konik" appears to related to various Slavic words meaning "horse" such as koń in Polish.)
From the Express, U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab warns that the E.U. will have to take responsibility for a no-deal Brexit.
From the Evening Standard, the U.K. Border Force rescues 30 migrants off the coast of Kent.
From the (U.K.) Independent, a small earthquakes strikes in the English county of Cornwall, but fails to knock over anyone's beer.
From the (Irish) Independent, one of Ireland's first tram drivers, originally from Nigeria, tells about the racial abuse he has suffered.
From the Irish Examiner, according to the head of the Irish Farmer's Association, Irish beef farmers are among the most carbon-efficient beef producers in the world.
From The Conservative Woman, Boris the Spider's adviser on "Islampphobia" would pretty much ban free speech.
From Snouts in the Trough, are American leftists "taking idiocy to a new ludicrous level?" (This American right-winger would answer with an emphatic "yes", and possibly even a "you don't know the half of it".)
From National Review, "immigration restriction is not hate".
From FrontpageMag, a test for determining if a Trump supporter is racist.
From Townhall, ICE's raids in Mississippi are not an outrage. (I would disagree somewhat. There's nothing outrageous about going after people in the U.S. illegally. What might be an outrage is that none of the Americans who may have knowingly hired illegal aliens weren't also rounded up.)
From The Washington Free Beacon, the European Union is poised to mandate warning labels for products made by Jews in settlements.
From the Washington Examiner, according to congresscritter and shooting victim Steve Scalise (R-LA), a "red-flag" law would not have stopped his attacker.
From The Federalist, the El Paso and Dayton mass shooters don't seem to have much in common - at first.
From American Thinker, what happens when only one side is allowed to define hate?
From CNS News, according to Candace Owens, black Americans are harmed not so much by white supremacy but by liberal supremacy.
From LifeZette, President Trump supports "very meaningful background checks" on gun purchases.
From NewsBusters, Twitter restores the account of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
From Reason, no probable cause is required for police to access user data on popular apps.
From Fox News, Comcast directors have nothing to say about the controversy over The Hunt.
From the Daily Caller, these 10 celebrities have the most fake social media followers.
From Accuracy in Media, CNN shows their double standards when it comes to reporting gaffes made by politicians.
From the New York Post, an armed commuter chases after the bus he missed.
And from Twitchy, a black GOP candidate for Kentucky attorney general is told to "stop eating the coon flakes" by a civil rights attorney.
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