Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Stories For Mardi Gras - Part 2

As a cool rainy Mardi Gras hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, what is known so far about deaths from the coronavirus in Italy.

From ANSA, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Lombardy Governor Attilio Fontana argue over who is to blame for the spread of the coronavirus in Italy.

From the Malta Independent, a passenger who arrived in Malta from Bergamo, Italy tests negative for the coronavirus.

From Malta Today, according to Malta's health ministry, no coronavirus cases have been reported in the country.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian railway construction workers find the bones of a rhinoceros that lived at least 120,000 years ago.  (If you read Slovenian, read the story at Delo.)

From Total Croatia News, more than 90 Croatian athletes are expected to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Albania's National Emergency Medical Center gives out instructions on the coronavirus and increases the country's hospital budget.

From Balkan Insight, Croatia confirms its first coronavirus case.

From Ekathimerini, nineteen organizations appeal to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to protect unaccompanied underage migrants.

From the Greek Reporter, the Greek government unveils its measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

From Novinite, a woman from Plovdiv, Bulgaria might be infected with the coronavirus.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria cancels indoor military events planned for March 3rd, due to the coronavirus.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria takes "full-scale" measures to prevent a coronavirus outbreak.

From Romania-Insider, Romania quarantines 17 people for possible coronavirus infection, but as yet has no confirmed cases.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at News(dot)ro.)

From Russia Today, traffic police in Moscow impound the Batmobile.

From Sputnik International, a magnitude-4.9 earthquake strikes off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

From The Moscow Times, a Russian government TV channel broadcasts the names of 13 million Soviet soldiers who died in World War II.

From Daily News Hungary, three places in Hungary which have prehistoric fossils.

From Hungary Today, Hungary puts coronavirus checkpoints at two airports and some of its border crossings.

From About Hungary, a response to an opinion piece by a left-wing Swedish MEP.

From The Slovak Spectator, which parties pay the most attention to Slovakia's economic challenges?

From Radio Prague, a Czech biochemist is involved in the development of a possible treatment for the coronavirus.

From Polskie Radio, according to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland is ready to fend off the coronavirus.

From Deutsche Welle, the man who drove his car into a Carnival parade in Volkmarsen, Germany is detained for suspicion of attempted murder.

From Voice Of Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party Christian Democratic Union plans to elect a new leader in April.

From the NL Times, according to Dutch justice minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus, the Jewish caricatures in the carnival parade in Aalst are "totally wrong".

From Dutch News, Schiphol Airport tests a device that limits the speeds of e-bikes.

From VRT NWS, despite Brexit, the replica of Big Ben will remain at the Mini-Europe attraction in Brussels.

From The Brussels Times, 25 percent of Belgian military personnel have not passed their physical test.

From France24, France confirms two new cases of coronavirus infection, including one person who travelled to Italy.

From RFI, the French government tells children returning from Italy to stay away from school.

From Euractiv, could France's pesticide problem be solved by using robot weeders?

From SwissInfo, Switzerland confirms its first coronavirus case, in the canton of Ticino.

From El País, nearly a thousand people at a hotel in the Canary Islands are placed in isolation after one of them tests positive for the coronavirus.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese authorities arrest a suspected drug trafficker and seize 5,000 doses of illegal drugs.

From EuroNews, Scotland is ready to be the first country to offer all women subsidized free sanitary products.

From the Express, according to an Italian MEP from the Liga party, a successful Brexit could inspire another country to leave the E.U.

From the Evening Standard, during renovation work at Buckingham Palace, workers find newspapers from the 1950s.

From the (U.K.) Independent, four men are sent to prison for smuggling 29 Vietnamese people into the U.K.

From the (Irish) Independent, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald meets with "frustrated" Irish residents hit by flooding.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, talks to form a coalition government for Ireland could take weeks, but a left-wing alliance is "unlikely".

From The Conservative Woman, net zero carbon dioxide emission would have a "mind-boggling" cost.

From Snouts in the Trough, somewhere in Europe, Christian worshipers find that their church sounds like a mosque.

And from the Daily Star, in the Australian state of New South Wales, a baboon appears determined to keep his masculinity.

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