As a very warm July 7th hangs around, here are some more things going on:
From Free West Media, in Radolfzell, Germany, five men from Nigeria allegedly sexually molest a girl at a train station and call policemen "racists".
From Deutsche Welle, due to the coronavirus, a trip to the store in Germany is no longer fun.
From EuroNews, a German court orders an end to a lockdown imposed on the district of Gütersloh due to a coronavirus outbreak at a meat plant.
From the NL Times, police discover an underworld torture chamber and prison Wouwse Plantage, Netherlands and arrest six suspects.
From Dutch News, Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge calls for an "annual debate" on migration levels.
From VRT NWS, Belgium will have a coronavirus contact tracing app for the entire country sometime in September
From The Brussels Times, when traveling on Belgian trains this summer, keep your mask on.
From the Express, the E.U. will start imposing full border checks with the U.K. staring on January 1st, 2021.
From the Evening Standard, remembering the victims of the 7/7/2005 bombing attack.
From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K.'s Conservative Party cancels their conference which was planned for this fall.
From the (Irish) Independent, Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin disagrees with Sinn Féin's calls for a border poll on a united Ireland.
From the Irish Examiner, mothers gather outside the Irish Dáil to call for an extension of maternity leave.
From France24, French feminists criticize the choices for the new justice and interior ministers due to allegations of rape and sexist comments.
From RFI, one French senator agrees with the feminists.
From El País, the Spanish region of Catalonia makes face masks mandatory, even with social distancing.
From The Portugal News, Lisbon and the Portuguese region of Tagus Valley register "stability" in the number of new coronavirus cases.
From SwissInfo, Swiss travel destinations seek tourists, but not crowds.
From Gatestone Institute, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance stifles free speech in Austria.
From ANSA, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte hails a simplification decree as a "springboard" for Italy.
From the Malta Independent, the Maltese parliamentcritters from the Nationalist Party start a meeting called by their leader Adrian Delia.
From Malta Today, footage shows the desperation of migrants aboard the Lebanese cargo ship Talia.
From Total Slovenia News, a wooden statue of U.S. First Lady (and Slovenia native) Melania Trump in Rožno, Slovenia is burned by unknown arsonists.
From Total Croatia News, earthquake-stricken Zagreb, Croatia comes back to life.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to Serbian official Ivica Dačić, Serbia will not apologize for the convictions of people who killed Serbs.
From Balkan Insight, Serbia convicts a former Bosnian Serb soldier for beating captured Bosniak civilians.
From Ekathimerini, police in Athens, Greece seize over 28 kilos of she-don't-lie.
From the Greek Reporter, Aegina is set to become the first Greek island to have no stray dogs. (I took a side trip to Aegina and its archaeological site during my first visit to Greece. I don't remember if I saw any stray dogs.)
From Novinite, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov meets with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Mayo.
From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian Health Minister Kiril Ananiev orders travelers arriving from the U.K., Portugal and Sweden to be quarantined for 14 days.
From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgarians protest against planned amendments to their country's Biological Diversity Act.
From Romania-Insider, Romania's largest free-roaming bison population adds two new calves.
From Russia Today, an advisor to the head of the Russia space agency Roscosmos is arrested for allegedly passing information to NATO intelligence.
From Sputnik International, an ISIS sympathizer who allegedly was planning a terror attack is detained by Russia's Federal Security Service.
From The Moscow Times, an E.U. carbon tax could cost Russia the equivalent of five billion euros per year in tariffs. (If you read Russian, read the story at RBC.)
From the Hungary Journal, the V4 foreign ministers meet in Wadowice, Poland.
From Daily News Hungary, a court in Szeged, Hungary sentences four illegal migrants to a year in prison for breaking through a border fence in the village of Röszke.
From Hungary Today, air pollution returns to Budapest after the end of its coronavirus lockdown.
From About Hungary, according to U.S. Ambassador David Cornstein, Hungary is attracting "a great deal of attention" from the U.S., Russia and China.
From The Slovak Spectator, Slovaks are divided in their opinions of the Bratislava Zhora wheel.
From Radio Prague, archaeologists search for the remains of Czech World War II resister Zdena Mašínová in a mass grave in Prague.
From Polskie Radio, Polish presidential candidates field questions in separate events.
From the CPH Post, the Danish parliament considers a bill to grant citizenship to people who have lived as legal residents in Denmark for ten years.
From Euractiv, the governments of the U.K., the Netherlands, Belgium and France sign a new version of the Eurostar treaty, which will streamline border checks and reduce travel time.
From The Conservative Woman, the lack of logic in the science "racism" protest.
And from Snouts in the Trough, 600,000 black slaves whom Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton could free.
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