Saturday, December 21, 2019

Stories For The Winter Solstice - Part 2

As the day of the winter solstice hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, the delusions of France's equality minister.

From France24, France's foreign minister "calls for stronger ties between Europe and Latin America".

From RFI, the Storm Fabian hits France's southwest coast.

From The Portugal News, one in ten babies born in Portugal in 2018 were to foreign mothers.

From El PaĆ­s, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange suspected that a Spanish security company was spying on him when he was in London.

From SwissInfo, Swiss scientists identify the bow string used by the Iceman.

From the Malta Independent, two members of Malta's Labour Party oppose having a foreigner as a police commissioner.

From Malta Today, bird trappers in Malta illegally trap birds at night.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian forest management deals with climate change.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia goes into an election silence.

From Ekathimerini, according to its vice president, the European Commission will propose a new migration deal.

From the Greek Reporter, for the second time in a week, unknown vandals burn a Christmas tree in the Athens neighborhood of Exarchia.

From Radio Bulgaria, a monument to Captain Petko Voyvoda, who fought against the Ottomans in the Russo-Turkish war of 1878, is unveiled in Sofia.

From Bare Naked Islam, CAIR calls on the House of Representatives to sanction Indian government officials who enacted the Citizenship Act.

From ABC News, a man from Qatar attacks a policeman in Arizona, thus making his last mistake.

From Russia Today, the Russian Foreign Ministry slams U.S. sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project.

From Sputnik International, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slams Russia and China for vetoing a U.N. resolution to provide humanitarian aid to Syria.

From The Moscow Times, a Russian electronic musician brings church bells to the dancing public.

From Euractiv, Russian energy company Gazprom pays $2.9 billion to Ukraining company Naftogaz to settle a longstanding dispute.

From Daily News Hungary, how did Hungary get that name?

From Polskie Radio, the Christmas rush starts in Poland.

From Gatestone Institute, why integration is failing in Denmark.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany and the E.U. decry U.S. sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project.

From EuroNews, a Christmas market in Berlin, where a terror attack occurred in 2016, is evacuated by police.

From VRT NWS, a fourth koala in 18 months dies at the Pairi Daiza animal park in the Belgian province of Hainaut.

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson promises a "complete break" from E.U. laws when Brexit happens.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Prince Philip spends a night in a hospital because of a "pre-existing condition".

From the Independent, scientists in Scotland claim to have developed the first "unbreakable" encryption system.

From the Irish Examiner, a man from the Irish county of Kerry is award the Freedom of London, and has a baaaaad idea of what to do with it.

From The Conservative Woman, the ideal combination is a man and a woman.

And from Snouts in the Trough, the story of Brexit, humorously set to music.

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