Thursday Things - Part 2

As a sunny and warm Thursday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, the formation of coalition government by two Italian leftist parties results in Matteo Salvini no longer being interior minister.

From ANSA, Salvini blames Brussels.

From EuroNews, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte hints at a change in Italy's refugee policy.

From Swiss Info, a petition is filed against a trade deal between Switzerland and the Mercosur bloc.

From the Malta Independent, Spain urges the E.U. to help with 208 rescued migrants.

From Malta Today, Maltese local authorities are now able to sift through garbage to see who dumped it illegally.  (I believe that this sort of thing happened in Arlo Guthrie's song Alice's Restaurant.)

From El País, in Spain, most recyclable construction waste is instead being dumped illegally.  (In other words, there's even more garbage.)

From The Portugal News, Portuguese police arrest human smugglers.

From France24, members of the "far-right" group Generation Identity are given prison sentences for displaying a large anti-migrant sign in an alpine pass.  (I take the term "far-right" with a bit of NaCl, because in Europe, it seems to be applied to anyone who wants finite limits on immigration or wants it controlled by national governments instead of the E.U.  Although Generation Identity is a French organization, their sign, shown in a photo in the article, is in English.)

From RFI, a referee suspends a soccer game in Nice, France due to homophobic chants from spectators.

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister Johnson "throws down the gauntlet" to the E.U.

From the Evening Standard, police warn that anyone using drones to disrupt flights at Heathrow Airport could be facing "long jail sentences".

From the (U.K.) Independent, Boris the Spider faces a backlash over his efforts to suspend Parliament.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Ireland's Minister for European Affairs, the suspension of the U.K. Parliament makes a no-deal Brexit "more likely".

From VRT NWS, footsteps lead to wooden figures representing refugees.

From the NL Times, a Slovak traveler trying to go to Rotherham, England instead ends up in Rotterdam, Netherlands.  (I descend from Slovak travelers who found their way to the U.S.)

From Dutch News, a "hard" Brexit will reportedly hurt the U.K. more than the Netherlands.

From Deutsche Welle, why suspending parliament can't happen in Germany.

From the CPH Post, a Danish minister wants to increase the penalty for dangerous driving.

From Polskie Radio, U.S. President Trump cancels his visit to Poland as Hurricane Dorian heads toward Florida.

From Radio Praha, a billion-dollar tire factory opens in Žatec, Czech Republic.

From The Slovak Spectator, the Slovak National Uprising explained in a podcast.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban calls Matteo Salvini a "brother in arms".

From Daily News Hungary, will robots protect Hungary's borders?

From Hungary Today, the tomb of Hungarian King Andrew II may have been located.

From About Hungary, the U.S. State Department authorizes the sale of anti-aircraft missiles to Hungary.

From Russia Today, Russian supersonic jets land on a highway that's under construction.

From Sputnik International, 12 U.S. congressional staffers visit Russia.

From The Moscow Times, pro-government activists disrupt an LGBT play in Moscow.

From Romania-Insider, four Romanians and a German are arrested in connection with the "Projekt Maramures" slavery case.

From Novinite, an ancient necropolis is discovered at the Bulgarian archaeological site of Perpericon.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria sends the first of eight Soviet-era to Belarus for an overhaul.

From Ekathimerini, police bust a drug gang on the island of Mykonos.

From the Greek Reporter, members of the Greek anarchist group "Rubicon" throw leaflets at the German embassy in Athens.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Bulgaria takes another step toward the completion of the IGB pipeline.

From Total Croatia News, a petition against raising the Croatian retirement age to 67 collects a number of signatures sufficient to have a referendum called.

From The Conservative Woman, the immigrant determined to stop the U.K.'s "borders free-for-all".

From The Stream, a look at "straw wars".

From Accuracy in Media, CNN host Chris Cuomo tries to bully new White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany into calling President Trump a liar.

From the New York Post, the criminal case over the recently departed Jeffrey Epstein is now over.

From Breitbart, Hall of Fame kicker Morten Andersen offers to help soccer player Carli Lloyd to join the NFL, if that's what she wants.

From ESPN, an NFL free agent comes out as bisexual.  (via Fox News)

And from WPVI-TV, in the Philippines, a little boy's lost sandal is fetched by a duck.