Sunday, November 3, 2019

Sunday Stuff - Part 2

As a cool Sunday slips into evening, here are some things going on:

From Free West Media, French President Emmanuel Macron congratulates Algerians for their bloody uprising against France.

From France24, French Resistance figure Yvette Lundy dies at age 103.

From RFI, ISIS claims responsibility for an attack in Mali that kills 50 people, including a French soldier.

From SwissInfo, the former Swiss ambassador to Mozambique is hailed as the creator of that country's peace deal.

From Malta Today, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's trust rating falls after the riot by migrants.

From Total Croatia News, Klis Fortress in Zagreb, Croatia logs its 100,000th visitor in this year.

From Ekathimerini, most unaccompanied minor migrants in Greece are not housed in secure shelters.

From the Greek Reporter, Greek citizens revolt against migrants being temporarily resettled in their communities.

From Novinite, the mayor of Sofia, Bulgaria wins reelection in a runoff.

From The Sofia Globe, more Bulgarian mayoral election results.

From Russia Today, according to the Russian foreign ministry, the story of Russians allegedly harassing a sick American is "fake news".

From Sputnik International, Russia Cosmonaut Sergey Krikalev wins Japan's Order of the Rising Sun.

From the Hungary Journal, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Hungary and Russia are committed to protecting Christian culture.

From Daily News Hungary, scenes from a Nazi-themed film are shot at Keleti railroad station.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at 444.)

From The Slovak Spectator, artifacts from Slanec castle near Košice, Slovakia are returned.

From Radio Prague, China has reportedly tried to recruit Czech intelligence agents.

From Polskie Radio, according to the new ambassador from Israel, Poland is not anti-Semitic.

From the CPH Post, Denmark should guard against a false sense of security.

From Deutsche Welle, would anyone like some soup?

From the NL Times, the largest teachers union in the Netherlands announces a strike for this coming Wednesday.

From VRT NWS, police arrest an Irish conman whom they had been seeking for two years.

From EuroNews, according to Belgian and U.K. authorities, ISIS fighters should be put on trial in Iraq and Syria.

From the Express, the realities of E.U. membership was kept from the people of the U.K. for 30 years.

From the Evening Standard, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage decides against running in the U.K.'s general election in December.

From the Independent, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologizes for failing to deliver Brexit by October 31st.

From the Irish Examiner, an attempt by an Irish Defence Forces team to bring ISIS woman Lisa Smith and her daughter back to Ireland reportedly faces complications.

And from The Conservative Woman, the upcoming U.K. election is the most important one since 1945, and the most unpredictable.

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