Saturday, September 14, 2019

Saturday Links - Part 2

As afternoon turns into evening and the colleges continue to play football, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, according to a study, over half of French people see migrants as a threat.

From France24, why does France's finance minister have a problem with Facebook's cryptocurrency?

From RFI, American leaker Edward Snowden wants to claim asylum in France.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese troops going to the Central African Republic "are prepared for the worst case scenario".

From SwissInfo, some Swiss inventions which have become iconic.

From EuroNews, Italy allows the Ocean Viking to disembark at Lampedusa.

From the Malta Independent, starting this Monday, gay men in Malta will be allowed to donate blood.

From Total Croatia News, the delivery service Glovo, after "conquering" Zagreb, wants to expand into Split.

From Ekathimerini, an elevator at the Acropolis Hill in Athens is shut down temporarily due to high winds.

From the Greek Reporter, a Classical-era shipwreck is found near the island of Alonnisos.

From Novinite, Bulgaria and Romania speed up modernizing their armed forces due to worries about Russia.

From The Sofia Glove, a "political storm" erupts after Bulgarian National Radio goes off the air for five hours.

From Radio Bulgaria, Orthodox Christians observe the Feast of the Cross.

From Sputnik International, Snowden talks about his life in Russia.

From The Moscow Times, Russia's first floating nuclear power plant arrives at its base.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban calls for Christian freedom.

From The Slovak Spectator, two caves near Banská Bystrica, Slovakia are not just homes for bats.

From Radio Prague, the Czech Republic's Communist Party asks the government to keep the statue of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev where it is.

From Radio Poland, the diary of the "Polish Anne Frank" will be published in the U.S.

From the CPH Post, a few brief items from Denmark, but brace your eyes for the first picture in the article.

From Voice Of Europe, police look for "two dark-skinned men" after a woman is allegedly raped in Luleå, Sweden.

From Deutsche Welle, thousands of climate protesters demonstrate at an auto show in Frankfurt, Germany.  (They all arrived by public transportation, didn't they?)

From VRT NWS, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker claims that the French language is "no longer tolerated" on Belgium's coast, so he speaks German.

From the Express, after being removed from the whip position for the Conservative Party, parliamentcritter Sam Gyimah defects to the Liberal Democrats.

From the Evening Standard, a solid gold toilet is stolen from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.

From the (U.K.) Independent, a Syrian stranded in a Greek refugee camp wants to travel to England so he can donate a kidney to his sick brother.

From the (Irish) Independent, hundreds of people attend a rally in Belfast, Northern Ireland to call for a second Brexit referendum.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish Taoiseach Varadkar tells the meat industry and beef farmers to resume their talks.

And from The Conservative Woman, a judge in Belfast sees through the antics of the Remainers.

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