Monday, August 12, 2019

Monday Mania - Part 2

Here on Monday, outside the U.S., are some more things going on:

From the South China Morning Post, after a woman is shot in the eye with a beanbag round, protesters call for a demonstration at the Hong Kong airport.  (via The Sun)

From The Mainichi, more on the protests at the Hong Kong airport.

From The Straits Times, still more on the protests at the Hong Kong airport.

From The Jakarta Post, yet still more on the protests at the Hong Kong airport.

From The Borneo Post, police in Malaysia set up a hotline for information on the missing Irish teenager.

From Free Malaysia Today, thieves blow up an ATM and steal its money in Ipoh, Malaysia.  (Attacking ATMs is not just for Belgians and Dutch people anymore.)

From the Daily Mirror, pictures from the Randoli Perahera parade.

From the Colombo Page, according to Sri Lanka's president, the Hajj "is a discipline to live in peace and harmony with other religions".

From The Hans India, according to police, Eid al-Adha prayers in Kashmir conclude without any violence.

From the Hindustan Times, according to former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, voices from Jammu and Kashmir must be heard.

From ANI, in Kurseong, West Bengal, India, a warning system is installed to prevent conflict between elephants and humans.

From India Today, Delhi's Indira Gandhi Airport receives a hoax bomb threat.

From Khaama Press, Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani sets free 35 Taliban prisoners as a peace gesture.

From Dawn, according to a Taliban spokesman, the latest round of talks with the U.S. has ended.

From The Express Tribune, the Eid is dedicated to Kashmiris who oppose India's changes to the region.

From Radio Farda, according to an Iranian spokesman, France has made no "definitive" proposals to ease tensions.

From IranWire, Baha'is are arrested in the Iranian province of Tehran.

From Rûdaw, "why is ISIS making a comeback in Iraq and Syria?"

From Arutz Sheva, a right-wing coalition in Israel decides on a name for itself.

From The Times Of Israel, in its largest exercise ever, the Israeli Navy prepares for a huge earthquake.

From The Jerusalem Post, what rabbis say about the Temple Mount.

From YNetNews, Israel's Ben Gurion Airport experiences technical difficulties.

From Egypt Today, more than 1,600 Egyptian prisoners receive a presidential pardon.

From In-Cyprus, thousands of old tires are removed from a quarry near Ayis Sozomenos, Cyprus.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey announces plans to rid the area east of the Euphrates of terrorists.

From Romania-Insider, NATO completes an upgrade of a missile defense system at the Deveselu base in Romania.

From Novinite, Bulgaria pays for the American F-16 jets, their weapons, and their equipment.

From The Sofia Globe, a mandatory culling of pigs begins in southern Bulgaria.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgarian Prime Minister Borissov meets with Russian Prime Minister Medvedev.

From Ekathimerini, police break up a teenage robbery gang.

From the Greek Reporter, ancient Mycenaean tombs are found near Nemea, Greece.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, various media groups are bringing democracy back to North Macedonia.

From EuroNews, Albania is at the "end of the beginning" of talks over its admission to the E.U.

From Total Croatia News, according to Croatia's foreign minister, both Serbs and Croats could be proud of Nicola Tesla.

From the Malta Independent, two migrants with medical conditions and their families are transferred from the NGO ship Open Arms to a Maltese Armed Forces vessel.

From Malta Today, uprooted trees are being replanted on private land in Dingly, Malta.

From Free West Media, over 400 migrants are at sea waiting for the E.U. to let them in.

From ANSA, archaeologists find a "sorcerer's treasure trove" at Pompeii.

From Euractiv, Italian Interior Minister Salvini's call for snap elections faces obstacles.

From SwissInfo, a German man is arrested for carrying fake bombs at a parade in Zurich.

From El País, the tombs of an Iberian prince and 24 aristocrats are found at the necropolis at Alarcos in the Spanish province of Ciudad Real.

From The Portugal News, an international pilgrimage begins in Fátima, Portugal.

From Morocco World News, the leader of Polisario says that he wants reconciliation with Morocco.

From France24, two French ministers want an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's activities in France.

From RFI, farmers in the French Pyrenees deal with bears.

From TeleSUR, Germany suspends money for Brazil due to deforestation.

From CBC News, liberals in the Canadian government propose aid to compensate for legal air cuts for refugees and immigrants by the Ontario government.

From Global News, a Quebec business lobby claims that the province needs more immigrants to meet its labor needs.  (Are there jobs that the Québécois won't do?)

From CTV News, at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, a truck driver from Quebec is arrested for allegedly carrying nearly 97 kilos of cocaine.  (He might become a Québécois who won't be available for normal work very soon.)

From Russia Today, a woman in Moscow wants the policeman who "punched her" to be prosecuted.

From Sputnik International, a U.S. spy plane is spotted near the Russian region of Kaliningrad.  (The Kaliningrad region is a piece of Russian territory located between Poland and Lithuania cut off from the rest of Russia.)

From The Moscow Times, what we know so far about the mysterious rocket explosion in northern Russia.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungary will regulate international tech companies.

From Daily News Hungary, a Hungarian man is attacked after being mistaken for an Arab.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at !!444!!!.)

From Hungary Today, one of two conjoined twins separated in Hungary is already awake.

From About Hungary, "the nine wonders of Hungary".  (Yours truly has visited three of them.)

From The Slovak Spectator, a Slovak-led team of paleontologists finds evidence of a viral infection in a 98 million-year-old cockroach.  (The age of 98 million years would indicate that cockroaches were around before, and then survived, the catastrophe that wiped out the non-bird dinosaurs.  This helps to confirm my belief that cockroaches will also survive whatever we humans do to wipe ourselves out.)

From Radio Praha, archaeologists in the Bohemian Paradise region of the Czech Republic unearth a brewery.

From Polskie Radio, Poland remembers victims of the Soviet secret police.

From Deutsche Welle, survivors recount the Nazi massacre of Italian civilians at Sant'Anna di Stazzema.

From the NL Times, a hand grenade is found in a home in Amsterdam.

From Dutch News, taking laughing gas while driving is not funny.

From VRT NWS, two parties agree to start talks on forming a government for the Belgian commune of Flanders.

From the Irish Examiner, Ireland's naval reserve loses all four of its motor launches due to their age.

From the Express, the U.K. will pull its diplomats out of Brussels this week.

From the Evening Standard, a women's health company blimp, which has a distinctly feminine design, has been banned from the Edinburgh Fringe.

From the Independent, the U.K. government decides not to admit the children of ISIS members.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.K. government appears to go easy on ISIS terrorists and hard on those who fought against them.

And from The Conservative Woman, why are we force-fed anti-family feminism?

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