Thursday, October 24, 2019

Thursday Links - Part 1

As a sunny and mild Thursday hangs around, here are some things going on:

From Free West Media, illegal migrants who can't qualify for residency in Italy find another way in.

From ANSA, former Italian Interior Minister Salvini has his own Russiagate.

From the Malta Independent, Malta inaugurates a new hate crime and speech unit.

From Malta Today, the Maltese government evaluates alternate locations for a new migrant center.

From Total Croatia News, the German state of Bavaria thanks Croatia for protecting the E.U.'s border.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, green activists are outraged by the expansion of a LNG terminal in Świnoujście, Poland.

From Ekathimerini, police in the Greek region of Attica arrest five members of a gang which is reported to ram stolen cars into stores before looting them.

From the Greek Reporter, as sanitation workers in Athens go on strike, the garbage piles up.

From Novinite, according to the WHO, health in Bulgaria is improving.

From The Sofia Globe, the mayor of Nessebur, Bulgaria is accused of vote-buying.

From Romania-Insider, the Bucharest city council bans some cars and passes a tax on others, depending on the E.U. pollution rating.

From Russia Today, Russia might use lie detectors in recruiting cosmonauts.

From Sputnik International, Russia considers a tax break for that drill for gas or oil off its Arctic coast.

From The Moscow Times, a Russian commission urges Presiding Putin to pardon a Norwegian spy, in hopes for a swap.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarians celebrate a national holiday.

From Daily News Hungary, according to Hungarian MEP Tamás Deutsch, a new wave of migrants coming from Turkey should be prevented.

From Hungary Today, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, eliminating illegal migration is the most effective way to fight terrorism.

From About Hungary, Hungarians believe that aiding developing countries helps manage migration.

From The Slovak Spectator, in 1907, 15 people in Černová were killed for consecrating a church.  (Today, Černová is in Slovakia.  Back then, it was in Hungary, along with the rest of modern Slovakia.)

From Radio Prague, a Czech company works to install water-cleaning facilities in Peru.

From Polskie Radio, Polish right-wingers go on alert over "Rainbow Friday".

From the CPH Post, a Danish beer producer is in hot water for using satirical religious cartoons in its labels.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany's Free Democrat party is in hot water over ads that include a Nazi slogan.

From the NL Times, after a missing teenage girl is found in Middelburg, Netherlands, two people are arrested for human trafficking.

From Dutch News, as more migrants come to the Netherlands, Dutch refugee centers are full.

From VRT NWS, officials in Zeebrugge, Belgium launch an investigation about the truck trailer in which 39 people were found dead in England.

From Voice Of Europe, in Belgium, a gang of armed Sudanese migrants allegedly attack a group of Eritrean migrants.  (If you read Flemish, read the story at SCEPTR.)

From the Express, under the latest Brexit extension, the U.K. could leave the E.U. by November 30th.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Prime Minister Johnson launches a bid for a general election in December.

From Euractiv, according to incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the U.K. must nominate a new E.U. Commissioner.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the 39 people found dead in the truck in Essex were Chinese.

From the (Irish) Independent, the Irish company which owns the truck says that it's "shellshocked" over people being found dead inside it.

From the Irish Examiner, several groups of children from Eritrea are found in Belfast, North Ireland, allegedly having arrived in a shipping container.

From France24, the French comic strip Asterix gets a new female lead character.

From RFI, France reopens access to an ancient tomb in Israel.

From SwissInfo, an international group of judges hold hearings for exiled Colombians in Geneva, Switzerland.

From El País, the remains of the late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco are transferred from the Valley of the Fallen monument to a cemetery in Madrid.  (This should mean that as far as anyone can tell, he's still dead.)

From EuroNews, according to acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the exhumation and transfer of Franco's remains is a "step toward reconciliation".

From The Portugal News, the Portuguese government approves armed security for Portuguese-flagged ships.

From Morocco World News, a Moroccan oil company secures a deal with the Russian Development Bank to build a refinery.

From Egypt Today, Russian President Putin claims to be ready to help resolve the dam dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia.

From Arutz Sheva, the Palestinian Authority's news agency accuses Israeli police of desecrating a mosque in Jerusalem.

From The Times Of Israel, after being attacked from a hilltop, the IDF razes two structures near the settlement of Yitzhar.

From The Jerusalem Post, the IDF demolishes the home of a terrorist - for the second time.

From YNetNews, Hamas police arrest dozens of Gazan activists in an attempt to deter more protests.

From The Syrian Observer, a report alleges that U.S. President Trump and Russian President Putin orchestrated events in Syria.  (Is this more Russian collusion?)

From In-Cyprus, according to a Eurobarometer report, 40 percent of Cypriots would not mind having a gay president.

From Hürriyet Daily News, President Erdoğan slams the E.U. for its policy against Turkey.

From Turkish Minute, an aide to Erdoğan slams a French magazine for calling him "the eradicator".

From Rûdaw, Turkey claims to have "neutralized" two senior members for the Kurdistan Workers Party in the Iraqi province of Duhok.

And from StepFeed, young Arab women live their "best life", which can come with a "hefty price".

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