Thursday, October 31, 2019

Stories For Halloween

As a mild but wet last day of October hangs around, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the House passes a resolution advancing the impeachment inquiry against President Trump.

From FrontpageMag, Turkey, as you would expect, doesn't like the U.S. resolution acknowledging the Armenian genocide.

From Townhall, making a military dog a national hero is "pure Donald Trump", says Trump's daughter-in-law.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the photoshop of Trump giving the dog a medal has the media "howling".

From the Washington Examiner, former congresscritter Katie Hill (D-Cal) brings out her excuses.

From The Federalist, former President Obama helped create the "cancel culture" that he now criticizes.

From American Thinker, former FLOTUS/Senator/Secretary of State/presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's health comes up again.

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R=Cal), the impeachment effort is not just an attempt to overturn the last election, but also to influence the next one.

From LifeZette, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is a victim of leftist propaganda.

From NewsBusters, according to a CNN anchor, the U.S. doesn't collect tariffs.

From Canada Free Press, "Trump's pledge to American workers".

From CBC News, how Trudeau the Elder survived a minority government, and how Trudeau the Younger can do the same.

From TeleSUR, Chile's public prosecutor investigates 840 alleged human rights violations.

From Morocco World News, the Polisario Front threatens to walk out of a U.N.-led political process.

From The Portugal News, the headquarters of a lithium-mining company is vandalized with a swastika.

From El País, the leader of the Spanish party Vox in Madrid faces a real estate scandal.

From RFI, angry crowds greet French President Emmanuel Macron as he visits a disaster area in Rouen.

From Voice Of Europe, migrants in the English Channel refuse rescue by the French navy so they can go to the U.K.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland and the U.K. sign an agreement to maintain social security rights in case of a no-deal Brexit.

From Free West Media, 11 jihadists are arrested in raids across Switzerland.

From ANSA, according to Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conti, a migration deal between Italy and Libya can be "improved".

From the Malta Independent, a Libyan man who resides on the Maltese island of Gozo is charged with committing a sexual act with a young girl.

From Total Croatia News, the U.S. approves the sale of two Black Hawk helicopters to Croatia.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the Greek parliament votes on a new asylum framework.

From the Greek Reporter, ten female activists disrupt an OXI day parade.  (The "X" is not the Latin letter "x" but the Greek letter often transliterated as "ch" but pronounced like "kh".  The Greek word OXI is thus transliterated ochi in the Latin alphabet.)

From Novinite, according to Russia President Putin, the TurkStream pipeline through Bulgaria will be ready in 2020.

From Romania-Insider, an NGO wants to rebuild Romania's biggest children's hospital.

From Russia Today, Russia plans more Soyuz missions after NASA requests more rides up to the International Space Station.

From Daily News Hungary, a Syrian man attacks personnel at the Budapest airport.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Index.)

From The Slovak Spectator, some advice for Slovak millionaires.

From Radio Prague, according to an E.U. legal advisor, the Czech Republic's stance on refugee quotas violates E.U. law.

From Polskie Radio, a truck carrying nine tigers formerly stranded on the Polish-Belarusian border takes them to a zoo in Poznań, Poland.  (Whoever said "you can't drive around with a tiger in your car" might have been wrong.)

From the CPH Post, a roundup of large spiders and other things in Denmark.

From Deutsche Welle, a German court dismisses a climate change lawsuit against Chancellor Merkel.

From the NL Times, five people are arrested after an ATM is blown up in Dordrecht, Netherlands.

From VRT NWS, Belgian police detain 28 migrants in Antwerp.

From the Evening Standard, pro-Brexit protesters march in London on the day it was due to take place.

From EuroNews, what happened to Brexit in October?

From The Conservative Woman, what should Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage do next?

From the Irish Examiner, plans to house asylum seekers in Achill, Ireland are postponed due to protests.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to President Erdoğan, Turkey's operation in Syria was to prevent the establishment of a terrorist state.

From Rûdaw, according to a Kurdish official, 412 SDF fighters have been killed in Turkey's offensive in northern Syria.

From In-Cyprus, the mayor of Limassol, Cyprus announces €35 million worth of anti-flooding projects.

From The Syrian Observer, the Syrian constitutional committee holds its first meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.

From The Times Of Israel, a rocket is fired from Gaza toward Israel.

From Egypt Today, Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia look forward to reaching a dam agreement.

From StepFeed, will Lebanese woman who dominate the streets eventually dominate the government?

From The New Arab, as elections loom, Iraq's prime minister is "willing to resign".

From Radio Farda, over 400,000 Afghans have reportedly returned from Iran and Pakistan.

From Dawn, 73 people have been killed in a train collision and resulting fire near Liaquatpur, Pakistan.

From Khaama Press, an explosives-laden vehicle detonates prematurely, killing 15 Taliban terrorists and two civilians.

From the Hindustan Times, what is means for Jammu and Kashmir to become one union territory and Ladakh to become another.

From the Colombo Page, postal voters in Sri Lanka are warned against posting pictures of their ballots online.

From Palestinian Media Watch, the Palestinian prime minister regards a mother of six terrorists as a role model.

From Gatestone Institute, what are the Palestinian leaders afraid of?

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesian President Joko Widodo proposes banning the niqab in government offices.

From The Straits Times, Singaporean police arrest three teenagers for posting a video online showing one of them wielding a chopper at another.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia wants the U.S. to a billion dollars worth of assets recovered from fugitive financier Low Taek Jho.

From The Mainichi, the Japanese government pledges to rebuild Shuri Castle on Okinawa after most of it burned down earlier today.

From The Stream, the drag queen "abortion" video shows the stakes for which America plays.

From AP News, scientists say that about a quarter of the world's pigs could die of swine fever.  (via the Daily Caller)

From the New York Post, former Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind releases a video promoting his upcoming court battle against congresscritter AOC (D-NY).

From the Daily Caller, three fourths of the "Squad" rally around recently resigned congresscritter Katie Hill (D-Cal).

From CNN, a group of climate activists sailing to a climate summit in Chile learn that it's been canceled.  (via Twitchy)

From Accuracy in Media, media transparency falls short as the Democrats push toward impeachment.

And from Fox News, what a New York train rider thought were suspicious packages were in reality devices used to detect suspicious packages.

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