Thursday, August 22, 2019

Thursday Tidings - Part 1

As another Thursday hangs around, here are some things going on:

From Free West Media, the NGO ship Open Arms might face sanctions from the Spanish government.

From El País, one migrant formerly on Open Arms claims to have not wanted to become a refugee.

From SwissInfo, researchers in Switzerland decipher the structure of a cell receptor related to the metastasis of certain cancers.

From ANSA, France offers to take some migrants now aboard the Ocean Viking.

From the Malta Independent, the E.U. starts taking initials steps in relocating the migrants on the Ocean Viking.

From Total Croatia News, Slovenia puts up some more fencing on their border with Croatia.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Kosovo's National Assembly votes to dissolve itself.

From Ekathimerini, food delivery workers attack hospital workers.

From the Greek Reporter, skeletons found near a lake in India are believed to have had Greek origins.

From Novinite, the Black Sea is getting more plastic waste.

From The Sofia Globe, according to Eurostat, Bulgaria produced 435 kilos of municipal waste per person in 2017.

From Romania-Insider, the U.S. and Romania sign a memorandum of understanding on 5G technologies.

From Russia Today, Russian air defense forces destroy a simulated attacker in a drill.

From Sputnik International, a U.K. network will create a documentary about Russian President Putin.

From The Moscow Times, the Russian government "jabs" at U.S. President Trump's idea of purchasing Greenland.

From the Hungary Journal, the Hungarian government rejects criticism from Sweden.

From Daily News Hungary, the Siamese twins separated by Hungarian doctors are now in stable condition.

From Hungary Today, Hungarian animal protection organizations plan nationwide demonstrations against animal cruelty for this coming weekend.

From About Hungary, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Hungary's gas supplies through 2020 are already secured.

From The Slovak Spectator, under a proposed law, only vaccinated children will be allowed to attend Slovak kindergartens.

From Radio Praha, Poland is ready to negotiate a border dispute with the Czech Republic.

From Polskie Radio, Poland's foreign minister will chair a U.N. debate on religious freedom.

From the CPH Post, the number of female conscripts in the Danish military increases.

From Deutsche Welle, why is Trump ignoring Germany?

From EuroNews, a Syrian man is given nine and a half years in prison for fatally stabbing a man in Chemnitz, Germany.

From the NL Times, parts of the 12th century wall of Utrecht, Netherlands have been uncovered.

From the Dutch News, the Netherlands is willing to send a single naval ship into the Straits of Hormuz, in the context of the E.U.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at De Telegraaf.)

From VRT NWS, fewer migrants are arrested in West Flanders.

From France24, French "yellow vest" activists join others for a "G7 counter-summit".

From RFI, ahead of the G7 summit, Indian Prime Minister Modi meets with French President Macron.

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister Johnson gets a surprise Brexit boost from Macron.

From the Evening Standard, Johnson is challenged to find an alternative to the Irish backstop in 30 days.

From the (U.K.) Independent, asylum waiting times in the U.K. are at a record high.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Ireland's garda commissioner, police cooperation between the U.K. and Ireland will "fall away" after Brexit.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Irish Tánaiste Simon Coveney, Europe is more united behind small countries because of Brexit.

From CBC News, "Jihadi Jack" has the right to go to Canada, but getting in might not be very easy.

From Global News, the U.S. is not alone in its interest in Greenland.

From CTV News, police in Toronto, Canada are finding more modified guns.

From TeleSUR, Bolivia contracts a Boeing 747 supertanker to be used against forest fires.

From The Conservative Woman, is teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg the victim of child abuse?

From National Review, what could bring about President Trump's defeat in 2020?  (In my opinion, if the president wishes to identify the one person above all others who could defeat him, he needs a mirror.)

From FrontpageMag, how the left misunderstands the poem on the Statue of Liberty.

From Townhall, the problem isn't plastic but people.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveils his version of the Green New Deal.

From the Washington Examiner, one-term congresscritter Joe Walsh (R-IL) decides to challenge Trump in the 2020 Republican primary.

From The Federalist, in the "1519 Project", Spanish explorers take down a mass-murdering cult.

From American Thinker, we must keep the "1619 Project" out of schools.

From CNS News, according to the DOJ, 64 percent of federal arrests in 2018 were of non-U.S. citizens.

From LifeZette, a Democratic aide faults congresscritter AOC (D-NY) for ignoring her own constituents.

From NewsBusters, conservative leaders Facebook's "insulting" response to their concerns about bias.

From The Stream, why do candidates espousing socialism, when it's really theft?

From the Daily Caller, why former President Obama dropped former Vice President Biden.

From the New York Post, the leader of the Proud Boys admits that their intent is to brawl and waste the public's money.

From Breitbart, according to Tammy Bruce, China wants a foothold in Greenland.

From NumbersUSA, support for the Trump administration's efforts to close immigration loopholes.

And from Fox News, Fox host Jedediah Bila's recipe for chicken and veggie shish kabobs.

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