Saturday, December 21, 2019

Stories For The Winter Solstice - Part 1

As the year reaches its shortest day, here are some things going on:

From National Review, one of its columnists responds to another about the impeachment of President Trump.

From Townhall, Franklin Graham responds to Christianity Today's call to remove Trump from office.

From The Washington Free Beacon, some Christmas gift ideas.

From the Washington Examiner, unions, technology and dairy are among the big winners with the new USMCA trade deal.

From American Thinker, there seems to be something in common between the current impeachment and the one which happened 21 years ago.

From LifeZette, seven frivolous laws that impinge on our freedom.

From NewsBusters, actor Robert DeNiro has a proposal for the president and solid waste.

From Canada Free Press, for the first time, an Israeli civilian tells the U.N. Security Council about living every day under the threat of terrorism.

From CBC News, a group of teenagers from Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada returns from the climate conference in Madrid.

From Global News, in British Columbia, a passenger gets a DUI charge.

From CTV News, two men in Quebec are arrested for threatening Prime Minister Trudeau and Muslims.

From TeleSUR, in Chile, a citizen is crushed between two armored cars, which is caught on live TV.

From The Mainichi, a Japanese agricultural cooperative produces the world's first blood orange wine.

From the Borneo Post, suspected smugglers shoot a Malaysian Customs Department boat 50 times in the state of Sabah's territorial waters.

From Free Malaysia Today, a group of Muslims in Kajang, Malaysia stage a silent protest over the mistreatment of the Uighurs in China outside a "Beautiful Xinjang" cultural show.

From The Straits Times, protesters and police face off with each other in several malls in Hong Kong.

From The Jakarta Post, the government of Indonesia's province of North Sumatra spends 5 million rupiah to bury pigs dead from swine fever.

From the Daily Mirror, U.K. Prince Charles denounces the Easter Sunday terror attacks.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan Navy rescues 32 people stranded by floods.

From The Hans India, students at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi protest against the Citizenship Act.

From the Hindustan Times, India and China try to settle their border dispute.

From ANI, people protesting against the Citizenship Act set a police station on fire in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.  (The same thing was done in the city of Meerut yesterday.)

From India Today, fear of violence from protests against the Citizenship Act causes a decrease in tourism to the city of Agra.  (The world-famous Taj Mahal is located in Agra.)

From the Khaama Press, Afghanistan's saffron is ranked first in the world for the eighth consecutive year, even with a war going on.

From Dawn, a court in Multan, Pakistan sentences a former academic lecturer to death on blasphemy charges.

From The Express Tribune, according to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, several Muslim countries are trading in gold and through bartering.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani politician Maryam Nawaz files another petition to remove her name from the country's Exit Control List.

From Radio Farda, the son of an Iranian ayatollah claims to have access to a tape that reveals the "Islamic republic's biggest crime".

From StepFeed, protests in Iraq give rise to graffiti and street art.

From Hürriyet Daily News, the Turkish parliament ratifies a motion on the memorandum of understanding between Turkey and Libya.

From Turkish Minute, the UEFA fines Turkey and reprimands soccer players for giving military salutes at matches.

From Rûdaw, human rights organizations condemn vetoes by Russia and China of a Security Council resolution to deliver aid to Syrians.

From In-Cyprus, according to Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides, there could be developments in reaching an intergovernmental agreement on the EastMed pipeline in 2020.

From Arutz Sheva, over 255,000 immigrants have arrived in Israel in a decade.

From The Times Of Israel, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem puts on an exhibit comparing Egyptian hieroglyphics to today's emojis.

From The Jerusalem Post, the lesser-known part of the Holocaust carried out by Nazis invading the Soviet Union.

From YNetNews, for the first time, the Armenian Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem has a public Christmas tree.

From the Egypt Independent, Egyptian churches prepare to celebrate Christmas.

From Egypt Today, in Khartoum, Sudan, a new phase of dam negotiations gets underway.

From Morocco World News, Morocco is recognizes as one of the top five countries implementing human rights recommendations from the U.N. Human Rights Committee.

From The Stream, Christmas is "more than just feelings".

From SFGate, California Govern Gavin Newsome (D) defends South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) and "wine caves".  (via Legal Insurrection)

From the eponymous site of Sharyl Atkisson, according to a poll, most people believe that the impeachment hurts Democrats the most.

From Twitchy, former Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) engages in some whataboutism involving former President Obama.

From Fox News, congresscritter James Clyburn (D-SC) comes up with an excuse for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) not handing the impeachment over to the Senate.

And from the New York Post, a government watchdog decides that U.S. immigration officials were not to blame for the deaths of two migrant children.

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