As a warm sunny Thursday hangs around, here are some more things going on:
From Free West Media, the Tour de France will no longer have pretty girls hand out winning jerseys at the end of each stage.
From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel offer a mediation led by the E.U. in Belarus.
From Euractiv, how French farmers were able to sell their products during France's coronavirus lockdown.
From El País, Spanish courts deal with workplace automation and human workers losing their jobs.
From The Portugal News, Portugal is placed on the U.K.'s air travel corridor list.
From SwissInfo, according to a poll, a right-wing proposal for Switzerland to discontinue an immigration deal with the E.U. is not all that popular.
From ANSA, Italy has its biggest daily count of new coronavirus cases since May 16th.
From ReMix, Italy's League party proposes a drastic response to a wave of alleged rapes by migrants.
From the Malta Independent, the Armed Forces of Malta saves 118 migrants from a sinking boat.
From Malta Today, the first cruise ship to dock in Malta since its coronavirus closure is expected tomorrow.
From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia has a second wave of the coronavirus, mostly among young people.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to a Serb member of the Bosnia and Hercegovina presidency, Republika Srpska will continue transporting migrants to the canton of Una-Sana.
From Balkan Insight, a court in Constanta, Romania refuses to extradite an accused war criminal to Bosnia and Hercegovina.
From Ekathimerini, six police officers and an undetermined number of detainees are placed in quarantine for 14 days after one of the latter tests positive for the coronavirus.
From the Greek Reporter, police on the Greek island of Mykonos break up a party of about 500 people and arrest a Spanish couple who allegedly broke their quarantine.
From Novinite, an accident renders half of Sofia, Bulgaria without electricity.
From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria expects a 40 percent decrease in tourists this coming winter.
From Radio Bulgaria, residents of Sofia counter-protest against blockades set up by protesters.
From Russia Today, the condition of Moscow protest leader Alexey Navalny has reportedly stabilized.
From Sputnik International, airport video footage shows an aide handing an allegedly "poisonous" drink to Navalny.
From The Moscow Times, six prominent Russians who were poisoned.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungary celebrates the anniversary of its founding in 1000 A.D.
From Hungary Today, who was Hungary's Saint Stephen and why was he important?
From About Hungary, a look at what Hungarians celebrate on today's date.
From The Slovak Spectator, the wine industry in Slovakia.
From Radio Prague, a look at Prague's Jewish Quarter.
From Polskie Radio, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announces Poland's new foreign and health ministers.
From the CPH Post, the number of daily new coronavirus cases is stabilizing in Denmark.
From Deutsche Welle, a German NGO sends a plane to Russia to bring Alexey Navalny to Berlin.
From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Turkish-born Armenian genocide denier is again a candidate for German Chancellor Merkle's party.
From the NL Times, Amsterdam reportedly has "multiple" coronavirus clusters, but no "super spread event".
From Dutch News, according to research by Bureau Beke, €600 million worth of bikes were stolen in the Netherlands in 2019.
From VRT NWS, Bever, Belgium confirms its first case of the coronavirus.
From The Brussels Times, Belgium's National Security Council decides against a uniform face mask requirement throughout the country.
From EuroNews, a top Belgian police official resigns after video from 2018 shows an officer at an airport sitting on a Slovak man who later died.
From the Express, E.U. Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier rejects a demand by U.K. negotiator David Frost that Britain may return illegal migrants to Europe.
From the Evening Standard, the BBC receives 8,000 complaints over its "insensitive" report on migrants crossing the English Channel.
From the (U.K.) Independent, the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber is jailed for life for his role in the terror attack.
From WestMonster, the Manchester bomber's brother refuses to face the families of the victims.
From the (Irish) Independent, Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin promises that schools will reopen as planned, including in Counties Laois, Kildare and Offaly.
From the Irish Examiner, the Irish government allocates €2.6 million to keep Bunratty Castle open until the end of 2020. (During my trip to Ireland in 1997, my tour group visited the adjacent Bunratty Folk Park and ate lunch at the nearby restaurant Durty Nelly's.)
And from The Conservative Woman, the cure for the coronavirus blues in faith.
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