Sunday, September 15, 2019

Sunday Stuff - Part 1

On a sunny and too-warm-for-September Sunday, here are some things going on:

From the Express, how a "secret" alliance of Remainers intends to stop Brexit.

From the Evening Standard, 41 migrants, including two in kayaks, are intercepted by the U.K. Border Force.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K.'s Liberal Democrat party votes to adopt the position of abolishing Brexit.

From the (Irish) Independent, residents of Oughterard, Ireland protest against a proposed center for asylum seekers.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish beef farmers and meat producers reach a deal.

From The Conservative Woman, the U.K. National Health Service sets up eight centers for victims of FGM.

From RFI, the French city of Chartres celebrates the 75th anniversary of its liberation during World War II.

From Free West Media, the night of Friday the 13th turns out to be violent for migrants in Porte de la Villette, a section of Paris.

From VRT NWS, at least 43 people are arrested for attempting to hold a banned "far-right" march in Brussels.

From Polskie Radio, Warsaw hosts the world's largest hackathon.

From Radio Prague, several hundred people march in Prague for the "traditional family model".

From Daily News Hungary, a Hungarian wins three awards at the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 Competition.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Index.)

From Russia Today, the site of a mall fire which killed 37 children is turned into a memorial park.

From Sputnik International, the West seeks to oust Russia from its gas market.

From Romania-Insider, a Romanian TV host is fined for "extreme racism" for a statement about U.S. tennis player Serena Williams.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at CNCD.)

From The Sofia Globe, Sofia Central Synagogue celebrates its 110th anniversary.

From Ekathimerini, according to a former police inspector general in Greece, migration is "exploited for leverage".

From the Greek Reporter, in Autumn, Santorini's splendor will "fill your senses".  (Yours truly was there in Autumn, 2006.)

From Total Croatia News, for the first time, Croatian Tourism Days will be held in five Slavonian counties.  (Slavonia is the northeastern part of Croatia, adjacent to Serbia and Hungary.)

From the Malta Independent, Maltese President George Vella plans to meet with Pope Francis and with Italian President Sergio Mattarella.

From SwissInfo, the number of Turks seeking asylum in Switzerland has increased 130 percent since the failed coup of 2016.

From The Portugal News, police in London investigate the murder of a Portuguese man.

From EuroNews, was new European Commission leader Ursula von der Leyen the first to speak of a "European way of life"?

From TeleSUR, Cuba, Uruguay and Nicaragua reject enacting the TIRA treaty against Venezuela.

From CBC News, Canadian Conservative leader Andrew Scheer promises a tax cut.

From CTV News, Canadian People's Party leader Maxime Bernier discusses immigration, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, and other subjects.

From Canada Free Press, the four U.S. congresscritters known as the "Squad" prove that only left-wingers qualify as "woman of color".

From National Review, the latest allegation against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, from The New York Times, is "actually a dud".

From Townhall, will the Democrats first destroy themselves, or destroy the country?

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) calls banning private health insurance a "bad idea".

From the Washington Examiner, a former NFL player is charged with vandalizing his own restaurants in might be a fake hate crime.

From American Thinker, the left's three-pronged attack on Christianity.

From LifeZette, as Border Patrol agents "face constant danger", construction on the wall is "ramping up".

From NewsBusters, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) schools anchor George Stephanopoulos about the Democrat push for gun control.

From The Stream, the charges faced by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe pertain to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, not President Trump.

From the Daily Caller, the latest allegations against Justice Kavanaugh give conservatives a "unity moment" on Twitter.

From Fox News, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) is "laughably wrong" about predicting that climate change will drown Miami.  (Has she noticed that former President Obama just bought a house on Nantucket Island that appears to be only a few feet above sea level?)

From the New York Post, schools in New York City want to ban chocolate milk.

And from NBC News, vapers are fighting their addition to nicotine by returning to ordinary cigarettes.

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