Saturday, December 7, 2019

Saturday Stuff - Part 2

As a chilly Saturday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, France rises up against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms.

From France24, the ongoing strike has everyone in Paris "very worried".

From RFI, more transport chaos looms ahead as French unions call for more strikes.  (The sign carried by the protester in the article's picture, if my admittedly limited knowledge of French is correct, says "Let them go look for me".)

From EuroNews, how successful was the strike in France done on December 5th?

From The Portugal News, Portuguese authorities detain the "main members" of a criminal gang that has been aiding illegal immigration and forging documents.

From SwissInfo, the International Criminal Court adds the intentional starvation of civilians to its definition of war crimes.

From the Malta Independent, the family of Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has a private visit with Pope Francis.

From Malta Today, the ban on political ads on Twitter is unlikely to affect Malta.

From Voice Of Europe, Italy's government allows two NGO ships to offload 121 migrants at the Sicilian ports of Messina and Pozzalo.

From Total Slovenia News, coins celebrate Slovenia's culture.

From Total Croatia News, Croats in Austria are urged to develop stronger bonds with other Croats.

From Ekathimerini, "constructive talks" between the E.U. and Turkey fail to ease worries about migration.

From the Greek Reporter, at a conference on the Pontian Genocide, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says "Greece has always overcome the storms of history".

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgarian jazz musicians gather at the Next Step project.

From Sputnik International, the "anti-Greta" become famous on the Russian Internet.

From The Moscow Times, the U.S. military believes that an unarmed drone was shot down in Libya by Russian air defenses.

From Daily News Hungary, a Syrian national is taken into custody for alleged human smuggling.  (As I've said before, migrants aren't merely migrating, but are being smuggled.)

From The Slovak Spectator, a lookout tower near Strečno, Slovakia gets a new set of stairs.

From Radio Prague, Czech Radio archives include recordings of the Nazi German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia.

From Polskie Radio, Poland sends a military reconnaissance to earthquake-stricken Albania.

From the CPH Post, foreign women talk about how it feels to live in Denmark and deal with differing standards of attractiveness.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany's Social Democrats vote on what they want from their coalition partners.

From the NL Times, drugs are stolen from a police car in Hilversum, Netherlands.

From VRT NWS, visitors to the Sint-Rombouts cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium will get to see the moon.

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister Johnson cancels an election event as a mob storms a market in Westhoughton, England.

From the Evening Standard, a strike and engineering work on England's South Western Railway are expected to cause misery for Christmas shoppers.

From the Independent, according to a poll, Remainers could vote tactically to deny Johnson a majority.

From the Irish Examiner, two men are arrested for allegedly conspiring to steal a double ATM from a market in Antrim, Ireland.

From The Conservative Woman, the upcoming U.K. election will be decide by Labour Leave constituencies.

And from Snouts in the Trough, is someone actually making fun of the Religion of Wonderfulness?

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