Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Wednesday Links - Part 1

As the middle of the first full week in November arrives, here are some things going on:

From National Review, The Donald and Fauxcahontas have more in common than you might think.

From FrontpageMag, "the Google archipelago".

From Townhall, the "good, bad, and ugly" results from last night's elections.

From The Washington Free Beacon, all four candidates in for Virginia prosecutor positions supported by George Soros win their races.

From the Washington Examiner, the number of illegal aliens has increased by 550,000 in 2019.

From The Federalist, how a Mexico-based smuggler brought six people from a terrorist hotbed into the U.S.

From American Thinker, President Trump keeps his promise by getting the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord.

From CNS News, congresscritters vote to strengthen border security in Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon and Jordan, but not the U.S.

From LifeZette, Republicans do well in most of yesterday's state elections, and Tuscon, Arizona rejects becoming a sanctuary city.

From NewsBusters, a new NBC series looks at "what matters", but only to Democratic voters.

From The Daily Signal, "Trump should take on the Mexican cartels".

From Canada Free Press, how socialism is deliberately misrepresented.

From CBC News, after a public outcry, the Quebec government backtracks on proposed limits to a student immigration program.

From Global News, a section of the Trans-Canada Highway near Gander, N.L. will be renamed to honor people who died in military operations.

From CTV, a look at one of the war brides who moved to Canada after World War II.

From TeleSUR, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro puts his country's richest oil wells up for sale to foreign companies.

From Morocco World News, retracing the steps of the Green March of 1975.

From Hürriyet Daily News, President Erdoğan claims that Turkey has captured the wife of recently departed terrorist al-Baghdadi.

From Turkish Minute, according to Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, Turkey has apprehended 371,000 illegal irregular migrants so far this year.

From Rûdaw, two protesters are killed in clashes in Karbala, Iraq.

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus's first snorkeling park includes giant-sized sculptures of sea shells.  (Say "she sells sea shells in Cyprus" three times fast.)

From The Syrian Observer, ISIS reportedly kills 15 Syrian and Kurdish fighters.

From Arutz Sheva, the Palestinian Authority calls Israel and ISIS "twins".

From The Times Of Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu hails Israel's teenager robotics team after their groundbreaking visit to Dubai.

From The Jerusalem Post, an Israeli missile has reportedly been delivered to Russia.

From YNetNews, a rare anti-Hamas protest takes place in Gaza.

From Egypt Today, according to Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi, human rights are not limited only to political matters.

From StepFeed, two men are arrested in Saudi Arabia after appearing to be kissing each other in a video.  (If you read Arabic, read the story at Sabq.)

From The New Arab, protesters occupy an important oil port in Umm Qasr, Iraq.

From Radio Farda, the U.S. and Europe "lash out" after Iran starts to inject gas into centrifuges.

From IranWire, the coach of Iran's national soccer team decides to leave his job after only six months.

From Dawn, the "Azadi March" will leave an imprint on Pakistan's political chessboard.

From The Express Tribune, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam arrive at Jati Umra, an area in the city of Lahore.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan's government and the organizers of the "Azadi March" are still at an impasse.

From Khaama Press, the Bollywood movie Panipat causes anger among the Pashtun people of Afghanistan.

From The Hans India, India plans to test-fire a K-4 nuclear missile from a submarine.

From the Hindustan Times, India shares with Pakistan concerns about threats posed by terror groups against the Kartarpur corridor.

From ANI, a procession of Sikhs leaves Amritsar, India and walks toward Pakistan to celebrate the 550th anniversary of the birth of the founder of Sikhism.

From India Today, the chief minister of the Indian state of Haryana says that his government will provide free travel to people going to Kartarpur, Pakistan.

From the Daily Mirror, the air pollution in Delhi, India may have found its way to Colombo, Sri Lanka.

From the Colombo Page, the next contingent of Sri Lanka Army personnel prepares to join the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali.

From The Telegraph, eight people, including four tourists, are stabbed at the archaeological site of Jerash in Jordan.

From CNBC, suspected separatist insurgents gun down 15 people in southern Thailand.

From Channel News Asia, 17 people are killed in an attack on a Tajikistan border post, which is blamed on ISIS terrorists trying to enter from Afghanistan.

From Gatestone Institute, should Europe welcome back people who left to fight for ISIS?

From The Stream, could the "whistleblower" and the West Wing spy possibly be the same person?

From the New York Post, North Korea slams the U.S. for plans to conduct military drills with South Korea.

From the Daily Caller, how then-private citizen Donald Trump saved the 1995 New York City Veterans Day parade.

From Fox News, read the transcript of the testimony from U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor.

From Reason, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) show his hypocrisy over impeachment.

From Twitchy, Kentucky libertarians point out how they, not Trump, are the reason Governpr Bevin (R) lost his bid for reelection.

And from CBS News, a Democratic candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates who lost two years ago when names were pulled out of a bowl wins this time around.

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