As a very warm and sunny Friday hangs around, here are some more things going on:
From Free West Media, a migrant in Italy is filmed preparing an unusual food item.
From ANSA, the coronavirus R-rate in the Italian region of Veneto rises above 1.
From SwissInfo, with fewer cars and more cars, Switzerland fails to meet its carbon dioxide emission target.
From France24, French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe resigns.
From RFI, senior government official Jean Castex is named France's new prime minister.
From El País, two businessmen are caught flooding supermarkets in Barcelona with fake condoms.
From The Portugal News, travel in the future is uncertain for the Portuguese.
From The Sun, a British ISIS bride recalls her time in Syria.
From the Daily Mail, the U.K.'s first female suicide bomb plotter planned an attack on St. Paul's cathedral in London and wanted it to be like the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka.
From the Express, U.K. Brexit negotiators are reportedly close to a victory.
From the Evening Standard, Prime Minister Boris Johnson urges the British to be careful as pubs reopen.
From the (U.K.) Independent, terror charges are dropped against a former U.K. soldier who fought against ISIS in Syria.
From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland's new agriculture minister has a drunk driving conviction on his record.
From the Irish Examiner, according to Irish parliamentcritter John McGuinness, new Taoiseach Micheál Martin will not last his term.
From VRT NWS, the Belgian town of Halle puts a bust of King Leopold II back onto its pedestal.
From The Brussels Times, three parties negotiating to form a new government for Belgium include possible legislation permitting abortion.
From the NL Times, five police officers in Rotterdam, Netherlands are investigated for alleged racist statements.
From Dutch News, Amsterdam intends to wants to "weed out" cannabis-flavored products sold in tourist shops. (Is the "weed out" pun intended?)
From Deutsche Welle, the German parliament approves legislation to phase out the use of coal by 2038.
From Euractiv, Germany refuses to publicly disclose the terms of its phase out deal with coal-burning energy firms.
From the CPH Post, the stone on which the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen sits is vandalized with graffiti saying "racist fish". (If she is racist, which race is she racist against? Sharks? Crabs? Whales? Starfish? If you read Danish, read the story at Ekstra Bladet.)
From Polskie Radio, the Polish Senate approves legislation to abolish statutes of limitations on crimes committed by communists.
From Radio Prague, art students in Prague create new designs for Czech banknotes.
From The Slovak Spectator, a roundup of news in Slovakia, including a temporary wheel set up in Bratislava.
From the Hungary Journal, according to Prime Minister Orban, Hungary could come out of the coronavirus crisis stronger than ever.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian researchers find an alternative for lithium in batteries.
From Hungary Today, the first man to complete Hungary's Iron Bike 2020 tour sets off on a ride for charity. (If you read Hungarian, read related stories at Bringazas and Csodálatos Magyarország.)
From About Hungary, also according to Orban, Hungary must resist pressure to allow people to enter the country without proper controls.
From Russia Today, the first group of Russian coronavirus vaccine test volunteers report no adverse effects.
From Sputnik International, President Putin signs a decree to introduce the recently approved changes to the Russian constitution.
From The Moscow Times, a Russian court sentences a North Korean poacher to four years in prison for attacking Russian border guards.
From Romania-Insider, a bat colony is found in a wooden church in Zalnoc, Romania. (If you read Romanian, read the story at Agerpres.)
From Novinite, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov wants to make roads, factories and supercomputers, but not war.
From The Sofia Globe, traffic lines ease up at the border checkpoint between Kulata, Bulgaria and Promachonas, Greece.
From Radio Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Food Agency orders the destruction of 250,000 birds due to an outbreak of the bird flu on a farm in the town of Assenovgrad.
From Ekathimerini, a Greek court acquits 11 defendants accused of profiting from the purchase of Apache helicopters.
From the Greek Reporter, the first tourists arrive on the reopened Greek island of Mykonos.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, the E.U. secures housing for 2,700 people in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
From Balkan Insight, Romanian authorities dismantle three human trafficking operations in four days.
From Total Croatia News, Croatians infected with the coronavirus will be allowed to vote by proxy.
From Total Slovenia News, the mayor of Moravče, Slovenia reintroduces a coronavirus lockdown.
From the Malta Independent, 52 migrants are reportedly in distress in Maltese waters.
From Malta Today, Malta will discontinue its cash-for-passport program and replace it with a residency program that can lead to citizenship.
From EuroNews, six migrants on board the NGO ship Ocean Viking attempt suicide.
And from The Conservative Woman, give economically conservative Tory parliamentcritter Sir Keith Joseph (1918-1994) a plinth in Parliament Square.
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