Saturday, October 12, 2019

Saturday Stuff - Part 2

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

From Free West Media, an "Islamist hydra" is creeping into France's education system.

From France24, thousands of people in Europe protest against Turkey's offensive in Syria.

From RFI, DNA tests show that a man arrested at the Glasgow, Scotland airport is not a wanted man accused of murder.

From VRT NWS, members of Extinction Rebellion demonstrate near Belgium's royal palace amid a "big police presence".

From the NL Times, three people are shot at a McDonald's in Den Helder, Netherlands.

From Deutsche Welle, the German government bans arms exports to Turkey.

From Voice Of Europe, Norway, Finland and the Netherlands also ban military exports to Turkey.

From the CPH Post, the wind blows in Copenhagen.

From Polskie Radio, U.S. President Trump declares October 11th Casimir Pulaski Day.

From Radio Prague, a look at Europe's first live soccer broadcast, which occurred in 1926.

From EuroNews, Czech police arrest 31 unruly soccer fans before a match between the Czech Republic and England.

From The Slovak Spectator, get a look at the highest peaks of the Belianske Tatra in northeastern Slovakia.

From Daily News Hungary, investments make the Hungarian village of Hollókő, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, more popular.  (Yours truly visited the place in 2000.)

From Russia Today, according to Russian President Putin, Syria should be free of any foreign military presence.  (I guess that he'll withdraw Russia's troops after everyone else gets out.)

From Sputnik International, when Putin visits Saudi Arabia, so will an exhibition of Russian fine art.

From Novinite, about 5,000 runners participate in the Sofia Marathon.

From The Sofia Globe, Pope Francis elevates the Sofia exarchate to an eparchy.

From Radio Bulgaria, the Tomić Psalter, a prayer book in the Old Bulgarian language, is exhibited in Bulgaria for the first time.

From Ekathimerini, Greece's National Historical Museum celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence.

From the Greek Reporter, Athens celebrates the 75th anniversary of its liberation from Nazi Germany.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, IBNA's own journalists go to the Turkey-Syria border.

From Total Croatia News, a new type of traffic light in Zagreb, Croatia alerts pedestrians absorbed in their mobile phones.

From the Malta Independent, Maltese European Commissioner-designate Helena Dalli claims that a pro-life website "misrepresented" a speech she had made.

From SwissInfo, thousands of people in Zurich, Switzerland protest against Turkey's offensive in Syria.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese emigrants in Luxembourg find the situation with their consulate "intolerable".

From the Express, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage exposes the "real motive" behind Prime Minister Johnson's tactics.

From the Evening Standard, protesters from Animal Rebellion block a fish market in Billingsgate, England, with some getting arrested.  (Animal Rebellion is an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion.)

From the (U.K.) Independent, according to the U.K.'s culture secretary, prospects of a Brexit deal this month are "promising".

From the (Irish) Independent, a man accused of killing two soldiers in Northern Ireland in 1972 is denied bail.

From the Irish Examiner, recruits leave the Irish navy because they can't use their smartphones at sea.

From The Conservative, how did the BBC hire a white man?

And from Snouts in the Trough, exposing the bias and lies from the IPCC.

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