Thursday, December 31, 2020

Stories For The End Of 2020

As the year 2020 reaches its last day, here are some things going on:

From National Review, what will historians make of the year 2020?

From FrontpageMag, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) laments President Trump's grip on the Republican Party.

From Townhall, good riddance to 2020.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Journalist of the Year award goes to Dave Portnoy.

From the Washington Examiner, Trump returns to D.C. early, reportedly to contest election certification.

From The Federalist, Trump has been "the most illuminating president in decades".

From American Thinker, without the Constitution, the U.S. is under occupation.

From LifeZette, Trump might not be the only candidate to have his election stolen this year.

From NewsBusters, a "rewind" of the media's four-year war against Trump's presidency.

From Canada Free Press, "where is President-elect Joe Biden?"

From The Conservative Woman, the U.K. has its third coronavirus lockdown "in all but name".

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. territory of Gibraltar will join the Schengen area.

From Euractiv, a divided U.K. leaves the E.U. and enters the "Brexit unknown".

From EuroNews, Kraków becomes the first Polish city to fund an LGBT support center.

From The Moscow Times, President Putin urges Russians to unite in 2021 as the second wave of the coronavirus strikes Russia.

From Novinite, a fantasy park in Sofia, Bulgaria includes dragons.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece sends aid to earthquake-stricken Croatia.

From the Greek City Times, six people from Palestine allegedly enter Greece illegally and steal a pickup truck.

From Total Croatia News, photos of earthquake damage in Croatia.

From ANSA, according to Transport Minister Paola De Micheli, the Italian government should be ready for the scheduled opening of schools on January 7th.

From France24, what's allowed for New Year's Eve in France and what isn't.

From ReMix, French courts punish people involved in peaceful right-wing protests.

From Free West Media, France lags behind Germany when it comes to coronavirus vaccinations.

From El País, more on the agreement between Spain and the U.K. over Gibraltar.

From Morocco World News, Morocco's National Museum Foundation plans to establish a museum of tangible and intangible heritage in the city of Marrakech.  (It will be one more thing for Graham Nash to visit if the Marrakech Express ever really takes him there.)

From Hürriyet Daily News, President Erdoğan promises reforms for Turkey in 2021.

From Gatestone Institute, a park in Istanbul, Turkey is named after a Nazi sympathizer.

From Rûdaw, ISIS claims responsibility for a terror attack in eastern Syria.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is reportedly seeking an Arab candidate for his Likud party.

From the Jewish Press, in Gaza, Hamas puts up posters of slain Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt summons the Ethiopian charge d'affairs over some dam comments.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia's central bank resumes circulating new currencies in the region of Tigray.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia has received over half a mission doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine.

From The New Arab, the war in Syria resulted in 6,800 deaths in 2020, the lowest since it began almost 10 years ago.

From Radio Farda, agents of the Iranian government break tombstones.

From Dawn, 14 people are arrested for destroying a Hindu shrine in the Karak district in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

From The News, Afghan security personnel abandon nearly 200 checkpoints to the Taliban.

From ANI, according to health experts, the number of coronavirus cases in India is declining as the country approaches herd immunity.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh went "from despair to hope" in 2020.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan parliament will hold its first sitting on January 5th.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia's foreign ministry repatriates fives sailors and the body of one more.

From The Straits Times, Singaporeans ring in the new year with fireworks and virtual festivities.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia's chief justice tells judges to submit to the law and not to people.

From The Mainichi, according to a study, forests on Japan's Mount Fuji are moving to higher elevations due to global warming.

From The Stream, what we've learned from the crazy year 2020.

From The Daily Signal, will 2021 be better?

From The American Conservative, President Trump's decision to support Morocco's claim over Western Sahara should be reversed.

From The Daily Wire, in her New Year's Eve message, Queen Elizabeth of the U.K. promises "better days" ahead.

From Fox News, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) promises that his failed White House run in 2016 won't hinder him in 2024.

From WJHL, congresscritter-elect Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) announces her intent to challenge electoral college votes for several states.  (via Breitbart)

And from the Genesius Times, a Democratic politician in Hartford, Connecticut awaits learning President Trump's opinion on the coronavirus relief bill, so that he can determine his own.

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