Saturday, February 1, 2020

Stories For The Start Of February - Part 2

As the first day of February heads toward evening, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, drug trafficking in Marseille, France is openly run by people from northern Africa.

From France24, how to survive being quarantined for the coronavirus - French style.

From RFI, France's interior minister hails the decrease in the number of deaths on French roads.

From VRT NWS, a group of Belgians evacuated from Wuhan, China will be quarantined at Melsbroek military base near Brussels.

From The Brussels Times, Belgium's defense ministry finds problems with the F-35 fighter jet.

From the NL Times, a WiFi network in Amsterdam is reportedly "extremely vulnerable" to hackers.

From Deutsche Welle, now that Brexit has taken place, the geographic center of the E.U. shifts to the small German village of Gadheim.  (Looking on GoogleMaps, I found both Gadheim and Gädheim, which names are pronounced differently from each other, due to the umlaut or lack thereof over the "a".  From what I can tell, the article refers to the former.)

From the CPH Post, Denmark had a record low number of teenage mothers in 2018.

From Breitbart, a left-wing Swedish legislator calls on Swedes to hide illegal migrants and bogus asylum seeker.

From Polskie Radio, Poland and other eastern E.U. states consider filing a lawsuit against proposed new regulations on trucking.

From Radio Prague, "the Cold War in Czechoslovakia".

From The Slovak Spectator, a look at some of Slovakia's islands in the Danube.

From Daily News Hungary, passengers from China will be tested for the coronavirus at Budapest's Liszt Ferenc International Airport.

From Russia Today, a meteor produces a fireball over the Ural Mountains in Russia.

From Sputnik International, due to concerns about the coronavirus, Russia suspends work visas and visa-free tourists for Chinese citizens.

From The Moscow Times, according to news agencies, Russian military aircraft will be used to evacuate Russian citizens from China.

From Novinite, a team of military medical specialists will assist in the evacuations of Bulgarians out of China.

From Radio Bulgaria, black vultures will be reintroduced into the Bulgarian section of the Rhodope Mountains.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek government continues to defend its plan for a floating barrier in the Aegean Sea.

From the Greek Reporter, the day when European powers forced Greece to choose between northern Epirus and dozens of islands in the Aegean.

From Total Croatia News, renovations will soon begin for a promenade in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and for the botanical garden on the nearby island of Lokrum.  (If you read Croatian, you can read the corresponding articles in Morski, about the promenade and the botanical garden.  When I visited Croatia in 2007, I stayed for a few days in Dubrovnik and took a trip to Lokrum.)

From Total Slovenia News, Croatian police stop a Slovenian and a citizen of Bosnia-Hercegovnia trying to smuggle 481 kilos of marijuana near the Croatia-Slovenia border.

From the Malta Independent, Lydia Abela, wife of Malta's prime minister, resigns from her secretarial position in the Labour Party.

From Malta Today, NGOs demand that Prime Minister Robert Abela rein in Malta's infrastructure agency, for "lawless" operations.

From SwissInfo, a Swiss humanitarian channel to bring food and medicine to Iran starts up with a trial run.

From The Portugal News, a Portuguese program in the European Space Agency is intended to detect marine litter.

From EuroNews, Scotland asks the E.U. to "leave a light on".

From Euractiv, according to China's ambassador to the E.U., panic could become a more fearful enemy than the coronavirus.

From the Express, eight of the worst E.U. laws that the U.K. was forced to accept.

From the Evening Standard, a look at the anti-virus facility where Britons are quarantined.

From the Independent, a pensioner is arrested for allegedly beating a seagull to death in Rhyl, Wales.

From the Irish Examiner, protesters from opposing sides clash at a rally against free speech legislation.

And from The Conservative Woman, why won't Prime Minister Boris Johnson use his power to set the British people free?

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