Saturday, February 15, 2020

Saturday Links - Part 2

On a cold Saturday, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, the European Court of Human Rights rules that illegal migrants can be rejected at the E.U.'s borders without an asylum check.

From The Portugal News, more cases of FGM are were identified in and around Lisbon in 2019.

From France24, France announces the first coronavirus death outside of Asia.

From RFI, French President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform plans literally get on a slippery slope.

From SwissInfo, six aspiring astronauts go ice-diving in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

From Voice Of Europe, a migrant from Senegal stabs himself to stage a fake "racist" attack in Sulmona, Italy.  (If you read Italian, read the story at Il Giornale.)

From the Malta Independent, reservoirs almost 500 years old are discovered during excavation work for a housing project in Cospicua, Malta.

From Malta Today, according to Maltese politician Adrian Delia, the people surrouding Prime Minister Robert Abela have failed Malta.

From Total Slovenia News, what the Slovenian magazines Mladina and Demokracija are saying this week.

From Total Croatia News, a new port is planned for Korcula, Croatia.  (Korcula is located near the eastern end of an island having the same name.  I stayed on the island, but not in the city, during my 2007 visit to Croatia.)

From Balkan Insight, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik repeats his demand for a secession referendum for Republika Srpska.

From Ekathimerini, according to Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis, Greece has sped up its asylum application process.

From the Greek Reporter, a look at the "floating monastery" of Saint Nicholas, near Porto Lagos, Greece.

From Novinite, Bulgaria returns 54 more containers of waste to Italy.

From Radio Bulgaria, European aurochs return to the Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria.

From Russia Today, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Europe needs to stop regarding Russia as a threat.

From Sputnik International, Russia rebuts Turkish President Erdoğan''s claim that private Russian military companies are operating in Libya.

From Daily News Hungary, how to make four kinds of Hungarian főzelék.

From The Slovak Spectator, Levoča, Slovakia will get a new lookout tower.

From Radio Prague, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo may attend events marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Plzeň, Czechoslovakia.  (Plzeň is the birthplace of Pilsner beer, and is now in the Czech Republic.)

From Polskie Radio, Pompeo announces U.S. support for countries in the Three Sea Initiative.

From Deutsche Welle, at a protest against the Munich Security Conference, a man from Iraq tries to set himself on fire.

From EuroNews, one person is killed and four others injured by "unknown people" outside a music venue in Berlin.

From the NL Times, schools in Arnhem, Netherlands become concerned about students smoking cannabis during school time.

From VRT NWS, Belgian politician Koen Geens gives up on forming a government.

From The Brussels Times, losses for the port of Antwerp due to the coronavirus will not be made up during this year.

From the Express, London's Euston railroad station is evacuated.

From the Evening Standard, the U.K. braces for Storm Dennis.  (In a related story, Storm Dennis has already become very interesting for a carpenter named Storm Denniss.)

From the (U.K.) Independent, two burglars who broke into a gay bookstore in London are caught by police after they stayed inside to drink the prosecco that they found there.

From the (Irish) Independent, Asians in Ireland endure being wrongly blamed for the coronavirus.

From the Irish Examiner, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald blasts other Irish parties for not including her party in the next government.

And from The Conservative Woman, the left comes up with another myth about racism.

No comments:

Post a Comment