Thursday, October 17, 2019

Thursday Things - Part 2

As Thursday slides into evening, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, the Frankfurt Book Fair has become one-sided.

From Deutsche Welle, a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard goes on trial in Hamburg.

From the CPH Post, tensions rise between Turks and Kurds - in Denmark.

From Polskie Radio, according to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the Brexit deal agreed to by the U.K. and the E.U. would protect the rights of Poles living in the U.K.

From Radio Prague, artifacts from the Terezín ghetto are found in the attic of a home in the Czech Republic.

From The Slovak Spectator, the Slovak parliament changes the method of calculating minimum wage.

From the Hungary JournalGergely Karacsony becomes the mayor of Budapest.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungary is selected to host an international military exercise intended to manage the migrant crisis.

From Hungary Today, drones disrupt operations at the Budapest airport.

From About Hungary, Christians in the Middle East will be the focus of a summit between Hungary and Russia.

From Reuters, according to Prime Minister Orban, Hungary would have to "use force" to defend itself from a new wave of migrants.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Russia Today, Russian President Putin presides over a missile launching exercise involving submarines, bombers and ground launch sites.

From Sputnik International, according to Russia's foreign ministry, U.S. diplomats were not detained in Severodvinsk, but got into a car and rode toward Moscow.

From The Moscow Times, two defendants on trial for "extremist activities" slit their wrists in court.

From Romania-Insider, Romanian diplomat Mircea Geoana takes over as NATO's deputy secretary general.

From Novinite, Laura Kovesi of Bulgaria is confirmed as the Prosecutor General of the E.U.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian authorities open an investigation on only one of the soccer fans accused of racist behavior.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria has yet to bear any consequences for the racist acts by fans against the English soccer team.

From Ekathimerini, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis calls for "Plan B" to deal with migration.

From the Greek Reporter, archaeologists on the Greek island of Naxos find evidence that early humans and Neanderthals reached the island about 200,000 years ago.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, E.U. leaders unanimously support the latest Brexit deal.

From Total Croatia News, according to Croatian Minister of the Interior Davor Božinovi, illegal migrants try to enter Croatia every day.

From the Malta Independent, the Maltese parliament will vote on declaring a climate emergency on October 22nd.

From Malta Today, the Malta International Airshow will return in 2020 after a two-year hiatus.

From ANSA, according to Euroskeptic League Party leader Matteo Salvini, a anti-government rally will be open to the group CasaPound, who have been accused of being "neo-fascist".

From SwissInfo, Bern, the capital city of Switzerland, makes more room for bears.

From El País, on the third day of unrest in Catalonia, 33 people are arrested, cars are burned, and riot officers are assaulted with petrol bombs and acid.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese police arrest 58 people and seize 88 vehicles in a large operation against vehicle crime.

From France24, a French associate of the late Jeffrey Epstein is accused of sexual harassment.

From RFI, French President Emmanuel Macron warns against stigmatizing Muslims as tensions over the headscarf deepen.

From VRT NWS, according to Belgian Asylum Minister Maggie De Block, a new crisis is looming.

From the NL Times, dozens of people are arrested at a protest in Rotterdam against the Turkish operation in Syria.

From Dutch News, hundreds of Dutch farmers camp out in The Hague, and plan to resume their protesting against legislation to cut nitrogen oxide and ammonia emissions.

From EuroNews, a brief summary of what happened today at the E.U. summit.

From Euractiv, electric fishing kills 57 percent of animals living on the sea bed.

From the Express, a brief summary of the Brexit deal and how to read the full document.

From the Evening Standard, why is Extinction Rebellion taking its protests to the London Underground?

From the Independent, the E.U. approving the new Brexit deal brings regret and relief.

From the Irish Examiner, words from the Nazi concentration camp slogan are seen over the entrance to a social welfare office in Cork, Ireland.

From The Conservative Woman, Boris the Spider's Brexit deal puts lipstick on a pig.

And from Snouts in the Trough, it's not the Pope who protects Christians, but the American president.

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