On today's date in 1770, the composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, in what was then the Holy Roman Empire. He later moved to Vienna, Austria.
Today, a snowstorm prevents me from doing any Christmas shopping, but gives me some more time for blogging, so I can include more foreign sources than the international ones. Of course, when it comes to snow, I will not seek, nor will I accept, any sympathy from the residents of New England, Minnesota, or my original home state of New York, to name a few obvious places.
As the snow falls on Beethoven's birthday, here are some things going on:
From National Review, the incoming Biden White House deputy chief of staff calls for unity after calling Republicans [bleep]s.
From FrontpageMag, a postmortem on the Republican "never Trump" movement.
From Townhall, President Trump's promises made and kept.
From The Washington Free Beacon, a gun control group spends lots of money on Georgia senatorial candidate Raphael Warnock (D).
From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) calls for both Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) and Senator Minority Leader Schumer (D-NY) to be replaced.
From The Federalist, the closing of New York and opening of Florida shows how the coronavirus is being weaponized.
From American Thinker, was the whole government in on election fraud?
From LifeZette, Ivanka Trump is reportedly considering running for Senator against incumbent Marco Rubio (R-FL).
From NewsBusters, ABC refuses to call out Senator (D-Cal) and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris for spreading misinformation about coronavirus vaccines.
From Canada Free Press, a possible preview of President-elect Biden's America.
From CBC News, Canada and the U.S. sign an agreement to send a Canadian astronaut around the moon.
From TeleSUR, Ecuadorian provincial and municipal governments protest budget cuts by the country's federal government.
From The Conservative Woman, health secretary Matt Hancock wants to ruin Christmas for the British.
From Snouts in the Trough, does anyone remember when Christmas is?
From the Express, the U.K. signs a post-Brexit trade agreement with the U.S.
From EuroNews, what will change in 2021 when the U.K. is free of E.U. rules?
From the NL Times, Kampen, Netherlands bans a large prayer meeting due to concerns about the coronavirus. (If you wish to see a bit of Kampen, go to this blog's archives for May 2017.)
From Deutsche Welle, despite the coronavirus, Germany resumes deporting failed asylum seekers to Afghanistan.
From Allah's Willing Executioners, the number of Arab criminal clans is larger than suspected, while an Islamic scholar reporting on them is threatened with death.
From Polskie Radio, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki pays tribute to the victims of a communist crackdown on miners in 1981.
From The Slovak Spectator, a house in the easternmost part of Slovakia which inspired a house featured in a Slovak cartoon undergoes reconstruction.
From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian party Fidesz condemns harassment by Ukrainian authorities against ethnic Hungarians in the region of Transcarpathia.
From ReMix, the Hungarian parliament passes a constitutional amendment that recognizes basic biology.
From Russia Today, Moscow plans to reward residents who snitch on coronavirus rule-breakers.
From Romania-Insider, construction of Romania's ice hotel is postponed due to the coronavirus and a lack of snow.
From Novinite, will the coronavirus case Bulgaria's 2021 census to be postponed?
From the Greek Reporter, the automaker Next(dot)e(dot)GO will build electric cars in Greece. (I've found out that putting a link on text that includes a period is troublesome, so I use "(dot)" instead.)
From Balkan Insight, seven former Bosniak fighters are arrested for alleged war crimes against Serbs.
From Total Croatia News, ordnance from World War II is removed from the Poljana area of Mali Losinj, Croatia. (If you read Croatian, read the story at Morski.)
From ANSA, the Italian government considers more Christmas restrictions due to the third coronavirus wave.
From SwissInfo, changing names and sex will become easier for transsexual and intersex people in Switzerland.
From France24, 14 accomplices to the January 2015 terror attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris are found guilty.
From Free West Media, a man arrested in a French railway station while carrying two loaded guns, a balaclava, a prayer rug and Koranic suras is regarded as "not radicalized".
From El País, Spanish regions consider imposing stricter coronavirus measures ahead of the Christmas holidays.
From Euractiv, the 27 E.U. counties plan to start coronavirus vaccinations on "the same day".
From Morocco World News, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia plan different routes on coronavirus vaccination.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey pledges to support Iraq's effort to wipe out the PKK.
From Rûdaw, a surgeon in Erbil, Iraq removes 537 stones from a woman's gall bladder.
From ArmenPress, according to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia will continue to guarantee the security of Artsakh.
From Arutz Sheva, a Torah is dedicated in Dubai, UAE.
From the Egypt Independent, if observers are given an effective role, Egypt will continue its dam negotiations.
From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia receives its first shipment of coronavirus vaccine.
From The New Arab, is the Arab Spring still relevant now?
From Radio Farda, Iran bans dual nationals from its presidential elections.
From Dawn, the only zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan is closed after its last few animals are removed.
From Khaama Press, Afghan government troops send 17 Taliban terrorists to their virgins.
From the Hindustan Times, the Indian government and farmers continue their standoff.
From the Dhaka Tribune, the man who first raised the independent Bangladesh flag in the district of Patuakhali dies at age 83.
From the Colombo Page, Archbishop Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith praises the Sri Lankan government resolving problems with the victim of the Easter Sunday terror attacks.
From International Rescue Committee, the "unrelenting" conflict and risk of famine in Yemen.
From Palestinian Media Watch, the organization DCI-Palestine promotes children participating in terror and endorses brainwashing by the Palestinian Authority.
From The Straits Times, the Hawker culture of Singapore is added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
From Free Malaysia Today, the housing minister of the Malaysian state of Sabah warns residents against holding large Christmas gatherings.
From Vietnam Plus, households in the Vietnamese province of Tra Vinh plant forests to prevent coastal erosion.
From The Mainichi, a local Japanese rail line tests a mini-bus for riding on both roads and rails.
From Gatestone Institute, is American free press in foreclosure?
From The Stream, how should Christians regard borders and immigration?
From The Daily Signal, the FDA authorizes the first over-the-counter coronavirus test.
From Breitbart, former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) promises to fight injustice in the Department of Transportation.
From Fox News, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger orders a study of mail-in ballot signatures after pressure from President Trump and his supporters.
From The Daily Wire, the University of Texas announces a journalism award named after Dan Rather. (As the article points out, this is not from The Babylon Bee.)
And from the New York Post, a man retrieves a golf ball sitting on the tail of an alligator, and lives to tell about it.
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