Saturday, October 19, 2019

Saturday Stories - Part 2

As a sunny Saturday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, foreign funding for another mosque in Strasbourg, France is questioned.  (If you read French, read a related story at Dernières Nouvelles D'Alsace.)

From RFI, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe accuses striking rail workers of disregarding ordinary people.

From VRT NWS, Belgium's Federal Police release CCTV images of a grenade attack which happened in Antwerp.

From Deutsche Welle, despite Chancellor Merkel's promise, Germany will not totally ban weapons exports to Turkey.

From Gatestone Institute, does Merkel really deserve a prize for Zionism?

From the CPH Post, how immigration into Denmark has changed "drastically".

From Polskie Radio, the Polish city of Gdańsk wins Spain's Princess of Asturias Award.

From Radio Prague, a new book tells the history of Czechs in America.

From The Slovak Spectator, some places to hike in the Small Carpathians.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian diplomat Tristan Azbej meets with 217 Christian students from the Middle East.

From Russia Today, 15 people are killed after a dam collapses at a gold mine in Siberia.

From Sputnik International, Russian pranksters posing as Ukrainian officials troll the governor of Alaska.

From Radio Bulgaria, Saint Ivan Rilski is Bulgaria's "most revered" saint.

From Ekathimerini, 13 undocumented migrants are injured in a road accident near Kornofolia, Greece.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece receives the most child asylum requests in the E.U. relative to its population.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, North Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev promises parliamentary elections as soon as possible.

From Total Croatia News, several thousand people protest in Zagreb, Croatia against sexual violence.

From the Malta Independent, according to a study by the World Bank, almost a quarter of Maltese people have emigrated from Malta.

From Malta Today, Kurds in Malta protest Turkey's operation in Syria in front of the Turkish embassy.

From SwissInfo, Swiss voters are expected to shift the country's parliament slightly leftward, due to support for Green party candidates.

From El País, Catalan protesters target police in their fifth consecutive night of violence.

From EuroNews, why haven't European countries stopped exporting arms to Saudi Arabia?  (Although not mentioned by the article, I wonder if the reason is black, liquid, and normally located underground.)

From the Express, the U.K. parliament votes to delay Brexit again.

From the Evening Standard, Prime Minister Johnson tells his fellow MPs that he will tell the E.U. that "delay is not a solution".

From the (U.K.) Independent, a reported "one million" protesters march in London to demand a second Brexit referendum.

From the (Irish) Independent, on Ireland's National Slow Down Day, a driver is caught going 181 km/hour.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, any new requests for a Brexit extension would have to be approved by all 27 E.U. member countries.

From The Conservative Woman, the U.K. parliament has its "day of reckoning".

And from Snouts in the Trough, an "almost Brexit-free" blog post.

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