Thursday, July 23, 2020

Thursday Links - Part 2

As a warm sunny Thursday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, will the death of caregiver Axelle Dorier in Lyon, France ignite an identity powder keg?

From France24, feminists pursue a legal case against French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who was once accused of rape.

From RFI, Darmanin faces new accusations of influence peddling and conflict of interest.

From El País, fruit growers in the Spanish region of Catalonia are torn between fear of the coronavirus and the need to make their harvest.

From The Portugal News, 204 vending machines for face masks have been vandalized in Cascais, Portugal since May.

From SwissInfo, is it time to discontinue watch straps made from reptile skins?

From ANSA, a military prosecutor in Verona, Italy investigates allegedly rogue Carabinieri.

From the Malta Independent, Malta's Nationalist Party continues to have internal dissension.

From Malta Today, Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia wants member of the party to decide his fate.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia ends its temporary ban on shopping on Sundays.

From Total Croatia News, a Croatian firm delivers education robots to the U.S.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Poslovni Dnevnik.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Bosnia and Herzegovina presidency member Milorad Dodik exploits a visit by Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić to Banja Luka, BiH.  (The small "i" in the acronym "BiH" is the word "and" in most, if not all, of the Slavic languages.)

From Balkan Insight, a Bosnian state court in Sarajevo is urged to convict three defendants accused of killing and falsely detaining Serb civilians in Trnovo, BiH in 1992.

From Ekathimerini, foreign residents of Greece and their children born in the country will have to wait up to five years to become Greek citizens.

From Novinite, protesters plan to block streets tomorrow on the Trakia Motorway into Burgas, Bulgaria.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov announces a reshuffle of his cabinet, which does not please the people protesting against his government.

From Radio Bulgaria, the protesters promise to keep protesting "until there are real changes".

From Romania-Insider, a modular hospital built by the Romanian army receives its first coronavirus patients.

From Russia Today, three Russian air traffic controllers are found guilty of criminal negligence in a 2014 crash that killed the CEO of the French oil company Total.

From Sputnik International, Russian authorities detain 22 alleged members of an Uzbek terrorist organization.

From The Moscow Times, I tawt I taw a putty tat - steal money in a bar in Anapa, Russia.

From EuroNews, the Baltic states and the U.S. accuse Russia of "rewriting history" to justify the Soviet Union's annexation of the Baltic states in 1940.  (I'm pretty sure that there are people in Russia who greatly resent the current NATO membership of these three former Soviet Socialist Republics.)

From Daily News Hungary, voyages on the Danube River restart in Hungary.

From Hungary Today, a protest against a proposed quarry in Pilismarót, Hungary leads to its mayor's resignation.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Átlátszó and a related story at Index.)

From About Hungary, Defense Ministers Tibor Benkő (Hungary) and Jaroslav Naď (Slovakia) meet to discuss regional defense.

From The Slovak Spectator, explore the Slovak region of Trenčin with Ľudovít Štúr, who codified the Slovak language.

From Radio Prague, a district in Prague weeks to reinstall a statue of Czech Field Marshal Josef Radecký, who served in the Austrian army.

From Polskie Radio, a rare painting is put in display as Poland observes the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw, in which the Polish army defeated the Russian Bolsheviks.

From Euractiv, the opposition party Civic Platform seeks an annulment and rerun of Poland's recent election, in which President Andrzej Duda was reelected.

From the CPH Post, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke reminds the Danish public to continue following hygiene guidelines.

From Deutsche Welle, a 93-year-old former SS concentration camp guard is convicted of being an accessory to murder in what might be Germany's "last" Holocaust trial.

From the NL Times, the Dutch public wants more enforcement of the rules requiring face masks on buses and trains.

From Dutch News, according to a study by the Dutch statistics office, most immigrant to the Netherlands come from other parts of Europe, come to work, and leave.

From VRT NWS, Belgium extends its coronavirus measures.

From The Brussels Times, what going for a beer will be like in Belgium starting this coming Saturday.

From the Express, E.U. Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier is warned that the "British public are running out of patience".

From the Evening Standard, social distancing doesn't seem to be working well at London's Heathrow Airport.

From the (U.K.) Independent, London Mayor Sadiq Khan claims that Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who once held Khan's job, hasn't talked to him in months.

From the (Irish) Independent, some "key points" from Ireland's coronavirus stimulus package.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish colleges and universities hope to open for first-year students in late September.

And from The Conservative Woman, the left wing's "long march through literature".

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