Saturday, November 2, 2019

Saturday Stories - Part 2

The the first Saturday of the month slips into evening, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, pro-Zwarte Piet campaigners, who had blocked buses carrying anti-Zwarte Piet demonstrators, have their sentences reduced.

From Deutsche Welle, German parties tell the AdD chairman of the Bundestag's legal committee to quit.

From the CPH Post, at the Burger King in the Copenhagen airport, would you like some racism with your fries?

From Polskie Radio, Polish prosecutors finish re-examining the wreckage of the 2010 plane crash in which Poland's president and 95 others were killed.

From Radio Prague, Czech Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček will visit the Vatican later this month.

From The Slovak Spectator, a new tower enables visitors to see some great views around Lipany, Slovakia.

From Daily News Hungary, Veszprém, Hungary becomes a UNESCO City of Music.

From Russia Today, an explosion on a Russian oil tanker kills three people.

From Sputnik International, a man rams a car into a monument to Czar Alexander III in Irkutsk, Russia.

From Romania-Insider, four people are injured when a crane falls onto a car in Bucharest, Romania.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarians launch a petition to spare the life of a bear which likes to swim in a spa.

From Ekathimerini, transport authorities in Athens plan to reactivate traffic surveillance cameras.

From the Greek Reporter, the mayor and residents of the Kos, Greece prevent 75 migrants from disembarking from a ship.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the U.N. agency for refugees will participate in Turkey's plan for resettling about 2 million Syrian refugees.

From Total Croatia News, after running for 142 days, the Metro of Split, Croatia shuts down.

From the Malta Independent, according to the aid group Alarm Phone, an Italian supply ship rescued 200 migrants from waters near Libya.

From SwissInfo, the races for some seats in the Swiss Senate are headed for runoffs.

From EuroNews, women's rights campaigners in Spain call for changes in the law after five men are acquitted of allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl.

From RFI, a French soldier in Mali is killed by a roadside bomb.

From VRT NWS, at a self-described "politically incorrect faculty evening" at Leuven University, homophobic and racist slurs abound.

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson hints at why he won't support an electoral pact with the Brexit Party.

From the Evening Standard, a musician is reunited with his violin worth £250,000 that he left in a train's luggage rack.

From the (U.K.) Independent, a man who raped a woman and stole her phone in London gets 15 years.

From the (Irish) Independent, a community of nuns in Dublin avoid a levy on vacant land.

From the Irish Examiner, 55 "separated children seeking asylum" are in government care in Ireland.

From The Conservative Woman, for the U.K.'s Remain media, the truth is a "hard-right" concept.

And from Snouts in the Trough, is the film Idiocracy science fiction, or the U.K.'s future?

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