Friday, July 24, 2020

Friday Fuss - Part 1

As a Friday starts out rainy and then turns sunny, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Covington, Kentucky high school student Nicolas Sandmann settles his defamation suit with the Washington Post.

From FrontpageMag, a look at "socialist distancing".  (I can support one type of "socialist distancing", as in staying clear of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the Kims, the Castros and Che, to name an obvious few.)

From Townhall, people aren't happy about Dr. Fauci's (literally) unmasked hypocrisy.  (He also throws a ceremonial first pitch worse than former President Obama).

From The Washington Free Beacon, federal authorities arrest a Chinese researcher who took refuge in the Chinese consulate in San Francisco for leaving information off her visa application.

From the Washington Examiner, according to U.S. intelligence, three countries are trying to influence the 2020 election.

From The Federalist, how Memphis, unlike other cities, kept its protests peaceful.

From American Thinker, former Vice President Biden and his fellow Democrats can't win by insulting Americans.

From CNS News, President Trump cancels the Jacksonville, Florida part of the Republican National Convention.

From LifeZette, Trump's former rival accuses him of being "indifferent" to the suffering caused by the coronavirus.

From NewsBusters, according to a survey by the Cato Institute, 62 percent of Americans are afraid to share their political views.

From Canada Free Press, the abandoned residents of nursing homes are the forgotten casualties of the coronavirus.

From CBC News, the Toronto Blue Jays will play the "majority" of their home games in Buffalo, New York.

From Global News, overstuffed garbage bins in parks in the Canadian province of Alberta become dangerous to both man and beast.

From CTV News, according to opposition leader Andrew Scheer, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should resign due to the WE Charity scandal.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza accuses Uruguay of becoming a "satellite" of the U.S.

From The Portugal News, the 21 migrants intercepted in Faro, Portugal will be transferred to the Linhó Prison.

From El País, coronavirus data from 10 regions in Spain.

From France24, France will require on-the-spot coronavirus tests for travelers arriving from 16 countries, including the U.S.

From RFI, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has a new book out, written during while under coronavirus lockdown.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Figaro.)

From SwissInfo, a new wolf pack is identified in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

From ANSA, 30 migrants from Tunisia break out of a reception center in Brindisi, Italy.

From Euractiv, Austria's law on online "hate speech" raises questions about "overblocking".  (I put "hate speech" in quotes because its definition can be very subjective.)

From the Malta Independent, a party at a hotel in Malta results in six new coronavirus cases.

From Malta Today, two NGOs file a complaint with the U.N. accusing Malta and Italy of violating the rights of migrants.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia and Austria will try out a joint border surveillance system including cameras and drones.

From Total Croatia News, the Croatian government agrees to pay for 60 percent of the post-earthquake reconstruction in Zagreb.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the "invisible heroes of Greece", who took in an estimated 20,000 children from Republika Srpska during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From Balkan Insight, the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey officially reopens as a mosque.

From EuroNews, Greeks protest the conversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque.

From Ekathimerini, President Katerina Sakellaropoulou commemorates the 46th anniversary of the restoration of democracy in Greece.

From the Greek Reporter, according to University of Toronto archaeologist Sarah Murray, women may have produced fine pottery during ancient Greece's Iron Age.  (The article links to an article in the American Journal of Archaeology, which may be purchased online.)

From Novinite, Bulgaria's National Assembly accepts the cabinet changes made by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov.

From The Sofia Globe, Borissov and members of his staff test negative for the coronavirus.

From Radio Bulgaria, anti-government protests in Bulgaria keep on going.

From Romania-Insider, eight European bison arrive in Armenis, Romania, on their way to their new home in the Southern Carpathian Mountains.

From Russia Today, it's a submarine, it's a tank, it's both.

From Sputnik International, reindeer herders find woolly mammoth fossils in Pechevalavato Lake in western Siberia.

From The Moscow Times, according to Health Minister Mikhail Murashko, Russia plans to vaccine medical personnel against the coronavirus in August.  (If you read Russian, read the story at Interfax.)

From the Hungary Journal, the Hungarian government secures €3 billion in additional funding at the E.U. summit.

From Daily News Hungary, a Hungarian surgeon is convicted for demanding increasing amounts of tips after operations.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Index.)

From Hungary Today, speaking of Index, after it's editor-in-chief is fired, its journalists start quitting.  (If you read Hungarian, read a related story at Media1 and a staff announcement at Index.  The staff's open letter opposing the editor-in-chief's firing may be read in English.)

From About Hungary, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Hungary's dispute with George Soros "has nothing to do" with his religion.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovaks traveling to England and Scotland will not have to self-isolate starting on July 28th.

From Radio Prague, Health Minister Adam Vojtěch announces new coronavirus measures across the Czech Republic.

From Polskie Radio, Warsaw, Poland prepares to observe the 76th anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw uprising.

From Free West Media, a Swedish broadcaster edits an interview to hide knife violence by immigrants.  (If you read Swedish, read the story at NyaTider.)

From the CPH Post, Denmark warns against traveling to Bulgaria.

From Deutsche Welle, German airports will offer free coronavirus tests to returning travelers.

From the NL Times, the Netherlands reports the highest number of new coronavirus cases since June 12th, but also a "sharp" decline in hospitalization.

From Dutch News, 13 homes in Kerkrade, Netherlands are evacuated because the ground they're on collapses from being above a mine shaft.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at De Volkskrant.)

From VRT NWS, taking your mask off your mouth in Belgium is gonna cost ya.

From The Brussels Times, Erpe-Mere, Belgium is terrorized by an eagle owl.

From the Express, the U.K. might require people to wear gloves due to the coronavirus.

From the Evening Standard, in the Camden area of London, after a 12-year-old boy is seen with toy gun in his living room, he is taken from his house by policemen with guns.

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson admits that mistakes were made.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish ISIS suspect Lisa Smith is given a new charge of financing terrorism.

From the Irish Examiner, the number of illegal aliens immigrants ordered to leave Ireland almost doubles.

From The Conservative Woman, the coronavirus epidemic is "running out of steam".

From Snouts in the Trough, would Africans south of Egypt have invented the wheel?

From The Stream, how do voters choose between flawed candidates?

From the New York Post, the Staten Island district attorney promises to not prosecute police who kneel on the necks of arrested suspects.

From the Chicago Tribune, Mayor Lori Lightfoot orders two statues of Christopher Columbus to be removed from two parks in Chicago.

From The Daily Wire, the CDC sides with President Trump about children returning to school.

From Breitbart, neighbors in Kansas City, Missouri raise $115,000 for a woman who donated her lottery winnings to a policeman who was shot in the line of duty.

From Fox News, according to White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Trump would like a legislative solution for DACA and favors "merit-based immigration".

And from CheckYourFact, no, coronavirus test trucks do not bear the symbol of the ancient Egyptian deity Anubis.

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