Saturday, December 12, 2020

Stories For 12/12

On the last day of the year in which the day and the month have the same number, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Republicans should not give on on bailouts for blue states.

From Townhall, "why some states are ripe for election fraud".

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Trump's greatest legacy is winning the war on Christmas.

From the Washington Examiner, leftists seethe over former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack (D) being presumptive president-elect Biden's agriculture secretary designate.

From American Thinker, our opponents are both vicious and crazy.

From LifeZette, the SCOTUS decision on the petition from Texas was inevitable.

From NewsBusters, in 2016, ABC was excited that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wasn't going away.

From Canada Free Press, what type of solution will we have?

From Global News, according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada's coronavirus recovery must include an "ambitious" climate change plan.

From TeleSUR, Guatemala turns back a refugee caravan from Honduras.

From The Conservative Woman, the hypocrisy of the Sky News fearmongers.

From the (U.K) Independent, a no-deal Brexit will result in Royal Navy ships patrolling the English Channel.

From the (Irish) Independent, airports in Ireland predict a peaceful Christmas.

From VRT NWS, hotels in Brussels are prepared to accommodate travelers who quarantine.

From Dutch News, Dutch ministers plan to meet tomorrow as coronavirus cases keep rising.

From Deutsche Welle, Austrian authorities seize guns and ammo destined for a far-right militia in the German state of Bavaria.

From the CPH Post, women are marginalized in Danish gaming.

From Polskie Radio, registration closes for Poland's coronavirus vaccination sites.

From Radio Prague, about 40 percent of Czechs are willing to receive a coronavirus vaccine.

From The Slovak Spectatorfolk dancers show you popular tourist places in Slovakia.

From About Hungary, Agriculture Minister István Nagy "unworthy, partisan" accusations against the Hungarian agricultural sector.

From ReMix, the E.U.'s budget deal is a pyrrhic victory for Hungary and Poland.

From Sputnik International, Russian peacekeepers urge Armenia and Azerbaijan to uphold their ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh after alleged violations.

From Radio Bulgaria, the Bulgarian party Movement for Rights and Freedoms reelects its leader during an online conference.

From the Greek Reporter, an entire fossilized tree is discovered on the Greek island of Lesvos.

From Total Croatia News, a 16-year-old Croatian boy wins first place at the International Romanian Master of Informatics competition.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Jutarni List.)

From Total Slovenia News, today's morning headlines in Slovenia.

From the Malta Independent, artwork for the Marsa Junction project goes on display in Valletta, Malta.

From EuroNews, Austria's constitutional court rules against a law banning headscarves in elementary schools.

From SwissInfo, who are Switzerland's suicide assistants?

From France24, dozens of people are arrested at a protest against France's new security law in Paris.

From The Portugal News, according to science minister Manuel Heitor, Portugal needs to create 25,000 "qualified" jobs by 2030 to meet European research and innovation goals.

From Free West Media, in recent weeks, dozens of trucks have been attacked in South Africa, mostly driven by foreigners.

From Morocco World News, the U.N. hopes that the deal between Morocco and Israel will bring peace to northern Africa and the Middle East.

From Middle East Monitor, Algerian parties condemn the normalization deal between Morocco and Israel.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey is under a nationwide weekend curfew due to the coronavirus.

From Rûdaw, according to their families, three men were killed by Turkish bombardment in the Iraqi province of Duhok.

From ArmenPress, Azerbaijani forces reportedly resume their attacks toward two settlements in Artsakh.

From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot army acquires more NORA weapons made in Serbia.

From Arutz Sheva, Israel and Bhutan normalize their relationship.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt plans to establish waste-to-electric power plants.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian government continues to send food and medical supplies to the region of Tigray.

From the Saudi Gazette, the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, approved in Saudi Arabia, will not be mandatory.

From The New Arab, according to U.N. experts, an activist jailed in Saudi Arabia is in terrorism court on "spurious" charges.

From Radio Farda, Iran executes a dissident journalist whose writings helped inspire economic protests in 2017.

From Dawn, according to Prime Minister Imran Khan, 60 percent of Pakistan's energy will be "clean" by 2030.

From Khaama Press, Afghan and Taliban negotiators in Doha, Qatar agree to a recess in their peace talks and will resume on January 5th.

From India Today, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India will exceed its climate targets under the Paris agreement.

From Republic World, a Muslim man in Delhi, India allegedly rapes a woman he married after assuming a false Hindu identity.

From the Dhaka Tribune, most of the suspects in a passport forgery case in Bangladesh are still at large.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka decides against relocating its Ministry of Justice.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran and Al-Qaeda are bedfellows.

From The Jakarta Post, four morticians are named as suspects, but are not arrested, after allegedly bathing the dead body of a female coronavirus patient.

From The Straits Times, Singapore approves a coronavirus saliva test.

From Free Malaysia Today, when in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, do not ride e-scooters on public roads.

From Vietnam Plus, former Hanoi Centre for Disease Control director Nguyen Nhat Cam is sentenced to 10 years in jail for "violations on bidding regulations that causes serious consequences".

From The Mainichi, more Japanese prefectures allow high schools to have genderless uniforms.

From The Stream, Christians should "preach the weird stuff".

From The American Conservative, why Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is right to oppose the 2021 defense bill.

From The Daily Wire, the media allow the Hunter Biden scandal to reemerge.

From Fox News, congresscritter-elect Burgess Owens (R-UT) has some harsh words for BLM and ProFa.

From Breitbart, President Trump flies over a "Jericho March" in Washington, D.C. aboard Marine One.

And from the New York Post, if you have a credit card and six-year-old who likes playing video games, be sure to keep them apart.

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