Sunday, January 12, 2020

Sunday Stories - Part 2

As Sunday heads into evening, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, some big names in France signed a pro-pedophile petition in 1977.

From France24, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announces her run for re-election.

From RFI, French unions "determined" to stop proposed pension reforms will continue striking.

From The Portugal News, five more Portuguese companies are allowed to export pork to China.

From SwissInfo, what kind of year will 2020 be for the U.N.?

From the Malta Independent, Maltese Prime Minister-elect Robert Abela gives his first speech after winning his party's leadership.

From Malta Today, the international media looks at Abela's election.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian YouTuber Klemen Slakonja portrays FLOTUS (and Slovenia native) Melania Trump.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia's E.U. presidency presents a new chance for southeastern Europe.

From Ekathimerini, police remove anarchists from two squats in the Athens district of Koukaki.

From the Greek Reporter, Iran files a diplomatic complaint against Greece for its support of the killing of General Suleymani.

From The Sofia Globe, Plovdiv, Bulgaria hands the European Capital of Culture title over to Rijeka, Croatia and Galway, Ireland.

From Radio Bulgaria, Burgas, Bulgaria fights pollution by planting trees.

From Russia Today, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki admits that U.S. sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline could delay it but won't end it.

From Sputnik International, according to the CEO of GazProm, Russia can complete Nord Stream 2 without anyone's help.

From The Moscow Times, as a ceasefire comes into effect, Russia suspends its airstrikes in the Syrian region of Idlib.

From the Hungary Journal, according to Hungarian spokesman Csaba Domotor, European politics will be "teeming with disputes" in the near future.

From Daily News Hungary, a record number of passengers used Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt 's International Airport in 2019.

From The Slovak Spectator, a Slovak museologist discovers the story behind a painting at Bojnice castle.

From Radio Prague, Czech President Miloš Zeman welcomes human right commissioner Helena Válková's decision to not accept his nomination to the position of ombudswoman.

From Polskie Radio, a record number of bats spend the winter in western Poland.

From the CPH Post, a Danish jihadist is arrested in Turkey near the border with Syria.

From Deutsche Welle, German bomb disposal experts successfully detonate two bombs from World War II near the city of Dortmund.

From the NL Times, vandals in Wormerveer, Netherlands spray paints eight railcars silver.

From VRT NWS, a woman from the city of Herentals becomes Miss Belgium, despite having a wardrobe malfunction.

From EuroNews, Prince Harry will get to face his grandmother.

From the Express, the Donald and Boris the Spider prepare to talk trade.

From the Evening Standard, musician Elton John denies that Prince Harry and Meghan Markel told him about any plans of theirs.

From the Independent, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces calls to step up action on global warming.  (The world's leading carbon dioxide producer, China, does not appear to face such a call from its citizens, or from anyone else, as far as I know.)

From the Irish Examiner, a migrant group welcomes the closure of a provision center in Limerick, Ireland.

And from The Conservative Woman, a Labour peer observes the death of his party.

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