Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Tuesday Links - Part 2

As a warm but not too warm Tuesday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, a German policeman who kneeled on a suspect will be investigated.

From Deutsche Welle, German and Israeli jets fly over the Dachau concentration camp.

From Euractiv, a German Bundestag committee will debate police brutality.

From the CPH Post, the Danish government unveils an early pension proposal.

From Polskie Radio, Polish Health Minister Łukasz Szumowski resigns.

From ReMix, a German-owned media outlet in Poland accuses Polish soldiers of "exterminating" Soviet POWs during the 1920 Battle of Warsaw.

From Radio Prague, long-distance hiker Jakub Čech walks around the Czech Republic's entire border.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia might have to celebrate this coming Christmas without honey.

From Daily New Hungary, what to expect this fall at Hungarian universities.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Eduline.)

From Hungary Today, the Chain Bridge in Budapest is illuminated in red and white in solidarity with protesters in Belarus.

From About Hungary, Hungary supports Poland's call for a repeat election in Belarus.

From Russia Today, according to Russian communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, things will get worse in Russia is Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is overthrown.

From Sputnik International, President Putin receives a bottle of "premium oil" from an oil field in Russia's Krasnoyarsk Kray.

From The Moscow Times, Lukashenko accuses the Belarusian opposition of trying to "seize power".

From Novinite, protesters block the Central Election Commission building in Sofia, Bulgaria.

From The Sofia Globe, British actor Ben Cross, who was based in Bulgaria, dies at age 72.

From Radio Bulgaria, protesters demonstrate against Bulgaria's cabinet.

From Ekathimerini, a brawl breaks out between two groups of French tourists in Hersonissos, Greece.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece will obtain 3 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Montenegro's National Coordination Body for Communicable Diseases accuses the Serbian Orthodox Church of spreading the coronavirus.

From Balkan Insight, former North Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev will resume his old job.

From Total Croatia News, Croatian pupils in the first four primary grades will not be required to wear masks in school.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian primary and secondary students will go back to school on September 1st.

From the Malta Independent, two men are arrested after running into an enclosure around a turtle's nest at Malta's Ghadira Bay.

From Malta Today, five hurdles faced by Nationalist Party leadership candidate Bernard Grech.

From ANSA, disco owners in the Italian region of Lazio appeal a government decision to close them.

From SwissInfo, a third of migrants who enter Switzerland leave within a year.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa helps rescue two women whose kayak had capsized.

From El País, the Spanish drug trafficker who wanted to be the next Pablo Escobar.

From France24, France's soccer season is postponed due to a coronavirus outbreak in the city of Marseilles.

From RFI, France requires face masks at work starting in September.

From EuroNews, femicides in France increased by 20 percent in 2019.

From VRT NWS, Belgian King Filip accepts the resignations of two parliamentary leaders.

From The Brussels Times, only half of Belgians returning from foreign "red zones" get tested for the coronavirus.

From the NL Times, Dutch customs authorities seize another 600 kilos of she-don't-lie at the port of Rotterdam.

From Dutch News, according to Prime Minister Mark Rutte, home gatherings in the Netherlands will be limited to six people.

From WestMonster, deaths in England and Wales are below the five-year average for the eighth straight week.

From the Express, the E.U. rejects U.K. demands that truckers have continued wide access after Brexit.

From the Evening Standard, the Kent County Council reaches its capacity to care for migrant children.

From the (U.K.) Independent, more asylum seekers are set to be deported from the U.K., despite concerns about safety and legality.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Active Retirement Ireland, new coronavirus restrictions are "disrespectful" to older people.

From the Irish Examiner, a photographer takes pictures of bioluminescence at a beach in Ireland's County Cork.

And from The Conservative Woman, why there should not be any Brexit negotiations over the U.K.'s fisheries.

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