Saturday, August 22, 2020

Saturday Stuff

On a warm cloudy Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to a new book, the mysterious symptoms experienced by American diplomats in Cuba were not caused by a sonic weapon.

From Townhall, former Vice President Biden and the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro have shared some of the same endorsers.

From The Washington Free Beacon, women in Detroit learn how to use the Second Amendment.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden is accused of plagiarizing a Canadian politician in his DNC nomination acceptance speech.

From The Federalist, fact-checkers admit that President Trump's claim that Democrats left "under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance was correct, but give it a "mostly false" anyway.

From American Thinker, Portland, Oregon continues to be a riot-plagued hellhole.

From CNS News, Biden admits that he would shut the country again over the coronavirus.

From NewsBusters, First Daughter-In-Law Lara Trump fields hostile questions on NBC's Today.

From Canada Free Press, Biden is not an "ally of the light".

From Global News, a look at the contenders for the leadership of Canada's Conservative Party.

From TeleSUR, a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court judge orders the Bolsonaro administration to revise its plan to stop the spread of the coronavirus among indigenous peoples.

From The Conservative Woman, Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon "tightens the straitjacket".

From the Evening Standard, the Tower Bridge in London has some technical difficulties.

From the (Irish) Independent, four men are arrested at a protest in Dublin against Ireland's coronavirus regulations.

From VRT NWS, coronavirus numbers in Belgium decrease for the sixth straight day.

From the NL Times, Dutch students plan protests against the high rents for their rooms.

From Deutsche Welle, Russian dissident Alexey Navalny is in "stable" condition at a hospital in Berlin.

From the CPH Post, the "silent language" in Denmark.

From Polskie Radio, Poland has no intention of threatening Belarus's territory.

From Radio Prague, a look at Czechoslovak exile scouting.

From The Slovak Spectator, exploring caves and caverns in Slovakia.

From Daily News Hungary, the biggest battles in Hungarian history.

From Russia Today, only about 42 percent of Russians are willing to take their country's "Sputnik V" coronavirus vaccine.

From EuroNews, President Alexander Lukashenko orders his army to defend Belarus's borders.

From Novinite, Bulgarians celebrate the 143rd anniversary of the Shipka Epopee.

From the Greek Reporter, a wildfire in the Greek region of Mani prompts the evacuation of five towns.

From Total Croatia News, a look at Croatia's Ludbreg Wine Road.

From Total Slovenia News, the latest from the Slovenian magazines Mladina and Demokracija.

From the Malta Independent, opposition leader Adrian Delia gives his opinion on why crime in Malta has increased.

From SwissInfo, can Switzerland accommodate over a million more people?

From France24, vandals write Holocaust-denying graffiti on a memorial in Oradour-Sur-Glane, France, where the Nazis carried out their largest massacre of civilians during World War II.

From The Portugal News, the Portuguese government plans to hire more doctors.

From Morocco World News, Moroccan students prepare to return to school amid the coronavirus.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey "slams" Greece's statement on the conversion of the Kariye (Chora) Museum into a mosque.

From Rûdaw, according to a Kurdish politician, repair at work the Rojava oilfields in northeastern Syria are "impossible" without U.S. support.

From Armenian News, Armenia drafts constitutional reforms that would merge two of its most important courts.  (via The Armenian Reporter)

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus sets the number of people who may be present at weddings and baptisms at 350.

From Arutz Sheva, incendiary balloons launched from Gaza ignite 35 fires in southern Israel.

From YNetNews, Israelis can get a look at Dubai.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt Sudan and Ethiopian review a dam draft agreement.

From the Saudi Gazette, all of Saudi Arabia's government employees will return to work on August 30th.

From The New Arab, Gulf states welcome the ceasefire announced in Libya.

From Radio Farda, Iranian hardliners get angry at the Tehran Municipality for omitting the word "Islamic" from a street sign.

From IranWire, is there any truth to Iranian Minister of Intelligence Mahmoud Alavi's claim that his ministry is benevolent?

From Dawn, in the future, your Samsung smartphone might be made in Pakistan.

From Khaama Press, three magnetic bombs explode in Kabul.

From the Hindustan Times, the India-China standoff in the region of Ladakh is discussed at a high-level security meeting.

From the Dhaka Tribune, only 10 percent of young women in rural areas in Bangladesh have access to the internet.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lanka government considers establishing a court to deal with child abuse.

From Maldives Insider, how to make tourism in the Maldive Islands "roar" again.

From Al-Bab, former Muslims observe International Apostasy Day.

From Swarajya, Twitter restores the account of a man who was blocked for quoting a Koranic verse.

From Sowetan Live, suspected Islamist terrorists kill 13 people in two villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From The Jakarta Post, fire engulfs the Indonesian Attorney General's Office building.  (If you read Bahasa Indonesia, read the story at Kompas.)

From The Straits Times, a new coronavirus cluster is detected in one of Singapore's largest dormitory.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia's Immigration Department detains nine foreigners, including two children, in a raid a group that was allegedly issuing fake temporary employment stickers.

From Vietnam Plus, visitors to Vietnam's Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex may go on kayak tours.

From The Mainichi, a folklore creature having the power to predict plagues is found in records from Japan's late Edo period.

From Gatestone Institute, Turkish President Erdoğan needs to get some new enemies.

From The Stream, how the extreme left and the extreme right are very much alike.

From The Daily Signal, the U.S. Postal service faces hurdles before a possible surge in mail-in ballots.

From Breitbart, protesters plan to "save" the U.S. Postal Service and call for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to resign.

From the Daily Caller, Democrat conspiracy theories about the Postal Service are "Russiagate 2.0".

From Fox News, House Democrats, led by congresscritter Rashida Tlaib (MI), call on President Trump to allow Lebanese nationals to stay in the U.S. due to the blast in Beirut.

From WVPI-TV, a pair of grandparents paint rocks for a park in Philadelphia.

And from the New York Post, just in time for the election, the Sweet Meteor Of Death is on its way.

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