As the first Monday of November hangs around, here are some more things going on:
From Free West Media, politician Marine Le Pen and journalist Eric Zemmour are targeted by the French establishment.
From France24, French hunters take film director Luc Besson to court for refusing to allow them to hunt deer on his land.
From RFI, thieves use a tree trunk tied to a car to ram their way into a cathedral in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France.
From El País, protesters in Barcelona demonstrate outside an event involving the king of Spain.
From The Portugal News, Portuguese authorities seize food that contains drugs.
From SwissInfo, why the Swiss company Nestlé won't meet its pledge of zero-deforestation.
From ANSA, according to a fan of a rival soccer team, Brescia player Balotelli is "not fully Italian".
From Euractiv, Italy's new plastic tax proposal doesn't go over well in the country's packaging sector, largely based in the region of Emilia-Romagna.
From the Malta Independent, authorities at the Corradino Correction Facility in Malta find a stolen ring in a very stinky place.
From Malta Today, the European Court of Justice will hear a case on Malta's judicial appointments.
From Total Croatia News, the number of outdoor tables and chairs in downtown Dubrovnik, Croatia will be reduced by 10 percent. (Yours truly was there in 2007 and remembers no problem running into chairs or tables. If you read Croatian, read the story at HRTurizam.)
From Independent Balkan News Agency, the death penalty is officially removed from the constitution of Republika Srpska. (Republika Srpska is part of Bosnia and Hercegovina.)
From Ekathimerini, three ancient shipwrecks are discovered off the small Aegean island of Kasos.
From the Greek Reporter, in a routine inspection, 41 migrants are found "crammed" inside a truck in Xanthi, Greece.
From Novinite, the Bulgarian foreign ministry summons the ambassador from France.
From The Sofia Globe, a scorecard of Bulgaria's 2019 mayoral elections.
From Radio Bulgaria, more on Bulgaria's local elections.
From Romania-Insider, Romania's parliament votes in a new government lead by Prime Minister Ludovic Orban. (It might get interesting when he meets his Hungarian counterpart, who shares his last name. If you read Romanian, read the story at G4Media.)
From Russia Today, a report on the Russian "threat" to the U.K. is shelved until after the upcoming U.K. election.
From Sputnik International, Russia plans to launch a glass sphere into space to measure the earth's gravity field.
From The Moscow Times, Russians march to observe National Unity Day.
From the Hungary Journal, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Germany is a strategic ally and important economic partner.
From Daily News Hungary, southeastern European parliamentary speakers meet in Budapest.
From Hungary Today, the reconstructed monument to the victims of the Red Terror of 1919 is inaugurated by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and House Speaker László Kövér.
From About Hungary, remembering the "dark day" of November 4, 1956.
From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia sets the date for its next general election.
From Radio Prague, the Czech Republic's Pirate Party holds an online vote over whether to dismiss its deputy chairman.
From Radio Poland, the Polish national basketball team decides to keep its American coach.
From the CPH Post, Denmark tries to combat illegal gambling.
From Deutsche Welle, the protest that started the fall of East Germany.
From the NL Times, shelters for asylum seekers in the Netherlands are short by about 10,000 beds.
From Dutch News, the Dutch defense minister confirms that a bomb dropped by a Dutch jet in Iraq in 2015 killed 70 people, mostly civilians.
From VRT NWS, the Flemish education minister proposes that all Flemish kindergartners will be given a Dutch language test.
From EuroNews, the U.K. downgrades its terror threat to "substantial".
From the Express, in the House of Commons, it's out with Speaker John Bercow and in with Lindsay Hoyle.
From the Evening Standard, the Tories and the Brexit Party go at each other.
From the (U.K.) Independent, according to U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, Brexit can happen without "trashing" the economy of the National Health Service.
From the (Irish) Independent, "boil water", 600,000 Irish people are told.
From the Irish Examiner, Ireland's National Bus and Rail Union renews its call for a dedicated police unit after a string of attacks against drivers.
From The Conservative Woman, no U.K. party wants to address the biggest issue, which is immigration.
And from Snouts in the Trough, can you help Greta Thunberg with her problem?
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