Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Tuesday Tidings - Part 1

On a warm sunny Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, homicide rates in 20 of America's largest cities increase by 37 percent in one month.

From FrontpageMag, the sanctuary city of Noo Yawk establishes its own border patrol.  (The state is New York, the city is Noo Yawk.)

From Townhall, did you hear about the white guy shot and killed by police in Phoenix this past May?

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate Amy McGrath (D-KY) was penalized for failing to pay property taxes six times.

From the Washington Examiner, Republicans and the media adopt new positions on executive orders.

From The Federalist, why Democrats have started to give in about reopening schools.

From American Thinker, people who hate President Trump realize that there are some things worse than him.

From CNS News, the group CatholicVote calls on former Vice President Biden to condemn attacks on churches, statues and beliefs.

From LifeZette, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) has her own opinion of Trump's executive orders.

From NewsBusters, "Meathead" tries to read white supremacy into Trump possibly making his nomination acceptance speech at Gettysburg.

From Canada Free Press, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) and former Governor John Kasich (R-Ohio) will speak at the Democratic national convention.

From CBC News, Canada names its sixth and final Arctic patrol ship after World War II naval veteran Lt. Robert Hampton Gray.

From Global News, the police board of Toronto, Ontario, Canada will consider reforms intended to combat anti-black racism.

From CTV News, the province of Ontario reports its lowest number of new coronavirus cases in 146 days.

From TeleSUR, Colombia starts investigating President Ivan Duque for alleged campaign finance violations.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese police seize 375 kilos of she-don't-lie.

From El País, a judge in Madrid calls for several leaders of the left-wing Spanish party Podemos to testify in court in a case involving a former lawyer for the party.

From France24, according to Prime Minister Jean Castex, coronavirus infection rates in France are going in the wrong direction.

From RFI, French Polynesia sees an increase in coronavirus cases since its quarantine was abolished.

From SwissInfo, according to a study, free trade deals have saved Swiss consumers billions of francs.

From ANSA, 64 migrants at a center in Pozzallo, Sicily test positive for the coronavirus.

From the Malta Independent, according to BirdLife Malta, a Maltese falcon was illegally shot and injured in the island of Gozo.

From Malta Today, the problem Malta has with migration and the E.U.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia reports 17 new coronavirus cases and one death, but is still regarded as "very safe".

From Total Croatia News, Croatian Railways starts its largest individual project.  (If you read Croatian, read related stories at Poslovni Dnevnik and Vecernji List.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, more meetings are needed between North Macedonian leaders Zoran Zaev and Ali Ahmeti in order to form a government.

From Balkan Insight, will Serbia and Kosovo open up their respective secret military archives?

From Ekathimerini, police at Greece's Kalamata Airport arrest dozens of foreigners traveling with forged documents.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece issues a €2 coin to commemorate the battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.

From Novinite, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov claims to have solutions for Bulgaria's current crises which will calm people down.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria reports 5,073 active coronavirus cases and 12 deaths.

From Radio Bulgaria, anti-government protesters in Bulgaria keep protesting.

From Russia Today, Russia receives orders for a billion doses of its new coronavirus vaccine from 20 countries.

From Sputnik International, according to President Putin, Russia has registered the world's first coronavirus vaccine.

From The Moscow Times, what we know so far about Russia's coronavirus vaccine.

From EuroNews, Belarusian opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya flees to Lithuania.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian police attribute eleven deaths to a new designer drug.

From Hungary Today, participants in Hungary's Plastic Cup competition remove 8.2 tonnes of waste from the River Tisza.

From About Hungary, Prime Minister Orban briefs the Hungarian parliament on the results of the E.U. summit held in July.

From ReMix, according to an opinion column, Orban is right to regard migrants as a health risk.  (If you read Hungarian, read the column at Magyar Hírlap.)

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia expels three Russian diplomats for allegedly violating the Vienna Convention on diplomacy.  (If you read Slovak, read the story at Denník.)

From Radio Prague, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Tomáš Petříček commemorate the liberation of western Bohemia by the U.S. military in 1945.

From Euractiv, more on Pompeo's visit to the Czech Republic.

From Polskie Radio, the foreign ministers of Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine urge Belarus to refrain from using force against protesters.

From the CPH Post, ethnic minorities in Denmark are over-represented among coronavirus cases.

From Deutsche Welle, a policeman in Hanover, Germany is suspended after speaking at a demonstration against the country's coronavirus rules.

From Free West Media, a woman is allegedly raped by men she described as "southern".  (If you read German, read the story at BZ.)

From the NL Times, for the fifth time this year, Dutch customs authorities find a large amount of she-don't-lie in a banana shipment from Ecuador.

From Dutch News, police arrest 17 people, of whom 13 are from Colombia, in Nijeveen, Netherlands as they bust the largest lab for processing she-don't-lie ever found in the country.

From VRT NWS, Belgium decides to extend its provisional driving licenses.

From The Brussels Times, a church in Duffel, Belgium opens for students seeking to study in a cool place.

From the Express, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is warned that the U.K. public would not support another coronavirus lockdown.

From the Evening Standard, the U.K.'s first Dutch-style roundabout is closed for three nights after a crash occurs before its official opening.

From the (U.K.) Independent, an unexploded bomb is found at a beach car park in Horsey, England.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Tanaiste Leo Varadkar, coronavirus outbreaks in Ireland's schools are "almost inevitable".

From the Irish Examiner, the Irish company Vinyl Vintage Clothing apologizes for using the word "tinker" in a social media post.

From The Conservative Woman, the idiocy of big business supporting the Marxist organization BLM.

From The Stream, why the U.S. is really in danger.

From The Daily Signal, federal authorities stand by as long as riots continue in American cities.

From Sino Daily, according to Taiwan's foreign minister, China is trying to turn the island into the "next Hong Kong".

From Space War, the U.S. wants to have fewer than 5,000 troops in Afghanistan by this coming November.

From Fox News, former Governor John Kasich (R-Ohio) explains his decision to speak at the Democratic convention.

From WPVI-TV, former Vice President Biden chooses Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) to be his running mate.

From Breitbart, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte volunteers to take a dose of Russia's coronavirus vaccine.

From The Daily Wire, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) accuses Democrats of "playing hardball" on coronavirus relief.

From the New York Post, dozens of unmasked hookah smokers take over an MTA bus in the Noo Yawk borough of Queens for a dance party.

And from NorthJersey(dot)com, a visitor from the south is seen running the New Jersey towns of Paterson and Totowa.  (via the New York Post)

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