As the shortened workweek reaches its last day, here are some things going on:
From Free West Media, six jihadists are sentenced to prison by a court in Pristina, Kosovo.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, Kosovo and North Macedonia remove barriers against the trade in some of their products.
From Ekathimerini, the Technical Chamber of Greece prepares some proposals to protect Greek buildings from earthquakes.
From the Greek Reporter, a Byzantine-era settlement is discovered on a small Greek island.
From Novinite, the Roma in Bulgaria do not trust the police or justice system.
From Radio Bulgaria, a special exhibition to commemorate Bulgarian unification opens in Plovdiv.
From Romania-Insider, a Bulgarian-Canadian tennis player makes it to the U.S. Open final.
From Russia Today, a man armed with a stun baton attacks the chief of the Russian Central Election Commission in her home.
From Sputnik International, a walk through some of Russia's abandoned places.
From The Moscow Times, some "potentially dangerous" objects are found near the site where an accident released radiation last month.
From Daily News Hungary, two Kosovan nationals receive suspended sentences for damaging Hungary's border fence.
From Hungary Today, the Hungarian State Railway adds Hungarian place names to signs for cities formerly within Hungary.
From About Hungary, the Hungarian government extends its mass migration "state of crisis".
From The Slovak Spectator, according to a survey, Slovak teenagers would not want political extremists as neighbors.
From Radio Prague, the Czech automaker Škoda launches an e-scooter service in Prague. (I find the name "Škoda" interesting, because it resembles the Polish word szkoda, which can mean "injury" or "harm". Maybe the Czech equivalent has other less unpleasant meanings.)
From Polskie Radio, a new book "sets the record straight" about the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939.
From Voice Of Europe, according to a study done by Statistic Norway, the children of migrants are more likely to commit crime than the migrants themselves.
From CPH Post, a new company intends to help Danes fight alleged unfair parking tickets.
From Deutsche Welle, the German Environmental Ministry drafts a bill to ban plastic bags entirely.
From the NL Times, the Netherlands sends two naval ships to provide help in the Bahamas.
From Dutch News, the Dutch weather bureau will join the U.K. and Ireland in naming storms.
From VRT NWS, British people stock up on Belgian food and drink to prepare for Brexit.
From the Express, the E.U. finally agrees to listen to U.K. Prime Minister Johnson's plan for the Irish backstop.
From the Evening Standard, a bill intended to stop a no-deal Brexit pass the House of Lords.
From the Independent, Johnson does not rule out resigning.
From the Irish Examiner, Ireland will allegedly lose more young nurses after Brexit.
From France24, dozens of French mayors ban pesticides.
From RFI, the website Disclose wins the Visa d'Or award for its investigation of French arms being used in Yemen.
From El País, the Spanish national government calls on regional governments to prepare for Brexit.
From The Portugal News, Portugal reportedly "welcomes" the possible enlargement of the E.U. as Brexit looms.
From SwissInfo, Morocco seeks Swiss expertise on road and rail infrastructure.
From the Malta Independent, a German NGO files a judicial protest asking Malta to take in migrants now aboard the Alan Kurdi.
From Malta Today, NGOs claims that "ongoing" detention of migrants for medical reasons is unlawful.
From ANSA, a man falls to his death from a cliff in Sardinia after taking pictures. (The picture in the article is not from Sardinia, but from Polignano-a-Mare on the east coast of the Italian mainland. How do I know? Because I stayed there in 2012, in the Hotel Covo dei Saraceni seen above the cliff in the left side of the pic. Go to this blog's archives for September of that year.)
From Euractiv, the new Italian coalition government is sworn in and promises to not quarrel with the E.U.
From EuroNews, a movie in Slavic Esperanto premiers at the Venice film festival.
From Total Croatia News, a former Croatian diplomat disputes accusations of xenophobia.
From The Conservative Woman, take the warnings about a no-deal Brexit with a good amount of NaCl. (If the warnings get more hysterical, a trip to the Dead Sea area to visit Mrs. Lot might be in order.)
From National Review, yes, gun ownership, as in self-defense, is a God-given right.
From FrontpageMag, how the left aids and abets Islam's victimization of Western women.
From Townhall, Democratic congresscritters launch an investigation into Vice President Pence's stay at a Trump hotel in Ireland.
From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) "inaccurately" claims to have sued ExxonMobil.
From the Washington Examiner, former Vice President Biden gets handsy again.
From The Federalist, the left-wing bias in the media goes international.
From American Thinker, in sanctuary cities, ICE apprehends human rights violators and war criminals.
From CNS News, in the first 11 months of Fiscal Year 2019, the U.S. has admitted 40 percent more refugees than for the same period a year earlier, with most being Christians.
From LifeZette, five reasons why Americans are not shouldering a big burden due to President Trump's tariffs on China.
From NewsBusters, most of the media skips over Biden's bloody eyeball.
From The Stream, what one Boston law professor wishes people would understand about atheism in America.
From WPVI-TV, hundreds of people are feared to be trapped on the North Carolina island of Okracoke.
From the New York Post, the firefighters who arrived early at the World Trade Center on 9/11 could now have a higher risk of heart problems.
From Twitchy, a journalist is "shocked" to learn that there really is a Manhattan in Kansas.
From CheckYourFact, Muhammad Ali never said the quote about the "impossible" which has been attributed to him.
And from BBC News, good riddance, you racist piece of [bleep].
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