As a cool sunny Friday hangs around, here are some more things going on:
From Free West Media, is Russian dissident Alexey Navalny a victim of poisoning or a "master of political posturing"?
From Russia Today, Russia reports a daily high of 12,126 new coronavirus cases.
From Sputnik International, according to Prime Minister Mishustin, Russia is ready to assist in finding a settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis.
From The Moscow Times, a Russian man owned by cats buys out a train compartment to transport them. (The article incorrectly calls him a "cat owner". As Papa Bigfoot used to point out, we don't own cats, they own us.)
From Daily News Hungary, a 23-year-old driver goes wild in Pécs, Hungary.
From Hungary Today, new details are revealed about the "super-hospital" in Budapest.
From About Hungary, according to Justice Minister Judit Varga, the European Commission's rule of law report is "wrong in many ways" about Hungary.
From ReMix, over 25,000 illegal immigrants have tried to cross the Hungarian border this year.
From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia reports 1,184 new coronavirus cases.
From Radio Prague, according to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, a lockdown in the Czech Republic due to the coronavirus cannot be ruled out.
From Polskie Radio, Polish President Andrzej Duda calls upon Armenia and Azerbaijan to stop fighting and start a dialogue.
From the CPH Post, according to a Danish parliamentcritter, Denmark's "North Sea oil adventure" is "over".
From Deutsche Welle, the people of Halle, Germany commemorate the attack on a synagogue which happened a year ago.
From EuroNews, swastikas are painted on artwork honoring the victims of the attack in Halle.
From the Dutch News, according to Prime Minister Mark Rutte, stronger restrictions are possible if the coronavirus situation in the Netherlands does not improve.
From Dutch News, the Dutch parliament will discuss allowing euthanasia for sick children.
From VRT NWS, coronavirus numbers continue to increase in Belgium.
From The Brussels Times, police in Leuven, Belgium intervene as hundreds of students take advantage of the last night bars are open before being closed due to surging coronavirus cases.
From France24, France reports a daily high of 20,330 new coronavirus cases.
From RFI, Prime Minister Jean Castex promises more police in Toulouse, France to crack down on drugs.
From El País, what people in the Spanish region of Madrid may and may not due in the state of alarm.
From The Portugal News, the Portuguese parliament will hold hearing on migration policy.
From SwissInfo, about 4,500 tonnes of Swiss Army munitions are found at the bottom of Lake Neuchâtel.
From ANSA, two Italians held hostage by Islamists in Niger and Mali return home to Italy.
From the Malta Independent, a protected short-toed eagle is shot down on the Maltese island of Gozo.
From Malta Today, Maltese opposition leader Bernard Grech emphasizes the need for a permanent link between the islands of Malta and Gozo.
From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia's Constitutional Court strikes down a 70 percent tax on undeclared income.
From Total Croatia News, a look at the "eco-ethno" Croatian village of Strug.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, the U.S. embassy in Pristina withdraws from monitoring the election for Kosovo's chief prosecutor.
From Balkan Insight, North Macedonia makes a new attempt at launching a "long overdue" census.
From Ekathimerini, strong winds uproot trees in Thessaloniki, Greece.
From the Greek Reporter, researchers find evidence that the first pre-humans lived in what is now northern Greece.
From The Sofia Globe, according to a new report, the state of the media in Bulgaria is bleak.
From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev calls for new elections but doesn't think that they will be fair.
From Romania-Insider, the U.S. will finance an $8 billion project for expanding Romania's Cernavoda nuclear power plant. (Anyone familiar with any of the Slavic languages will figure out that the name "Cernavoda" means "black water", even though Romanian is not a Slavic language, and its words for "black" and "water" are not "cerna" and "voda".)
From Euractiv, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia recall their ambassadors from Belarus.
From the Express, drivers of some vehicles powered by gasoline or diesel will have to pay a road charge of £8 per day if they drive around Birmingham, England.
From the Evening Standard, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will unveil the U.K.'s new coronavirus measures on Monday.
From the (U.K.) Independent, Mayor Sadiq Khan warns that London is headed for tighter coronavirus lockdown rules.
From the (Irish) Independent, the Irish government decides to draw up a regime of fines for violating coronavirus restrictions.
From the Irish Examiner, voter registration among Americans living in Ireland increase by 210 percent from 2016.
And from The Conservative Woman, white people are not welcome in the U.K.'s world of spooks.
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