Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Wednesday Whatnot - Part 2

As the very warm weather continues on a Wednesday, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, a former Austrian vice chancellor and his party want to revive the "true values of freedom".

From ANSA, prosecutors in Bergamo, Italy quiz Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and two ministers about alleged delays in setting up coronavirus red zones in two towns in the region of Lombardy.

From the Malta Independent, a possible wartime shelter is found during road construction in Pieta, Malta.

From Malta Today, according to a survey, 89 percent of Maltese people believe that corruption is widespread in Malta.

From Total Slovenia News, a policeman robs a bank in Cankova, Slovenia and then commits suicide.

From Total Croatia News, tourism in the Croatian region of Istria picks up, but is still well below its extent in 2019.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, four left-leaning Slovenian opposition parties demand the resignation of Interior Minister Aleš Hojs.

From Balkan Insight, an improvised teddy bear bomb found in Libya included a Serbian mortar shell.

From Ekathimerini, two Greek police officers are charged with attempted murder for allegedly firing at a car driven by a smuggler and carrying migrants.

From the Greek Reporter, a U.S. court rules in Greece's favor in a dispute with Sotheby's over the sale of an ancient bronze horse.

From Novinite, Bulgarian Health Minister Kiril Ananiev announces that face masks will be mandatory on public transportation and only recommended in other places.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria lowers its VAT for restaurants, caterers, books and baby food.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgarian border police will check drivers for unpaid fines.

From Romania-Insider, according to a department head, Romania is preparing for second wave of the coronavirus.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at News(dot)Ro.)

From Russia Today, new data suggests that almost 14 percent of Russians have coronavirus antibodies.

From Sputnik International, American F-22s escort Russian TU-95Ms over neutral waters.

From The Moscow Times, Russian authorities detain three power plant workers over the recent spill of diesel fuel.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian police find and destroy four marijuana plantations.

From Hungary Today, Hungarians and Croatians will be allowed to cross at all seven border crossings between the two countries without undergoing quarantine.

From About Hungary, according to Hungary's Operational Group, the coronavirus does attack young healthy people.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia's national coronavirus emergency is scheduled to end on June 13th.

From Radio Prague, a Nazi German massacre in Lidice, Czechoslovakia leaves a legacy in Mexico.

From Voice Of Europe, the Czech Republic extradites an Afghan migrant to Germany, where he is accused of stabbing his girlfriend.  (If you read Czech, read the story at Novinky.)

From Polskie Radio, Polish officials prepare to mark the centennial of Poland's victory over the Russian Bolsheviks in Warsaw.

From the CPH Post, a roundup of business news in Denmark.

From Deutsche Welle, people in Göttingen, Germany deal with a coronavirus cluster.

From Euractiv, Germany relaxes its restrictions on seasonal farm workers.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a German judge releases a Chechen Islamist because the coronavirus made deportation impossible.

From the NL Times, the Dutch Council of State rules that the mayor of Rotterdam was within his rights to ban protests over the folk character Zwarte Piet.

From Dutch News, the trial of six men accused of planning a terror attack starts in Rotterdam.

From VRT NWS, a Belgian prostitute calls for her profession to be banned until September 1st.

From The Brussels Times, another statue of Belgian king Leopold II is vandalized.

From EuroNews, Prime Minister Johnson admits that the rate of coronavirus infection in the U.K. is not dropping quickly enough.

From the Express, trolls claim that a picture of the U.K.'s Prince Philip taken to mark his 99th birthday has been photoshopped.

From the Evening Standard, author JK Rowling refuses to back down from her comments about transgenderism.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the E.U. urges an extension for the Brexit transition.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish shoppers return to the department stores Brown Thomas and Arnotts as they reopen.

From the Irish Examiner, parties trying to form a coalition government for Ireland reach a sticking point over the export of live animals.

From France24, a work by British street artist Banksy that was stolen from the Bataclan in Paris is found in Italy.

From RFI, French officials launch an investigation of the shooting death of a brown bear the Pyrenees.

From SwissInfo, the Swiss parliament approves a carbon dioxide tax for airplane passengers.

From El País, Spain issues new guidelines for safely reopening schools in the fall.

From The Portugal News, Portugal reportedly recycles only 15 percent of its plastic waste.

From The Conservative Woman, how could police stand idle with anarchy going on?

And from Snouts in the Trough, some information for the blame game.

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