Thursday, January 28, 2021

Thursday Tidings

On a sunny but cold Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the second Trump impeachment brings "the worst of both worlds".

From FrontpageMag, resistance is now sedition and vice versa.

From Townhall, congresscritter Nancy Mace (R-SC) reacts to congresscritter AOC's (D-NY) accusations about Republicans and violence.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden repeals the ban on U.S. taxpayer funded abortions in other countries.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden sticks to his predecessor's policies on China.

From The Federalist, Biden's call for unity is false advertising.

From American Thinker, then-President Trump did well on the environment.

From CNS News, ABC co-host Meghan McCain tells liberals who want to "deprogram" Trump supporters where to go.

From LifeZette, RNC chairperson Ronna McDaniel lays out a mundane agenda.

From NewsBusters, YouTube removes over 500,000 videos relating to the coronavirus.

From Canada Free Press, an ominous warning from a once young man.

From CTV News, the effort to distribute coronavirus vaccinations in the Canadian province of Ontario has some technical difficulties.

From The Conservative Woman, will bird choppers ever become carbon-neutral?

From the Evening Standard, tap water in thousand of homes in south London turns brown.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish truck drivers are urged to arrange coronavirus antigen test before entering France.

From VRT NWS, according to Flemish Premier Jan Jambon, there is "no reason to panic".

From Euractiv, the Belgian port of Antwerp unveils plans for importing hydrogen.

From the NL Times, in a park in Rotterdam, Netherlands, there really was a fire in a theater.

From the CPH Post, Denmark extends its coronavirus restrictions until March.

From ReMix, Poland outlaws eugenic abortion.

From Radio Prague, the Czech government considers tightening its coronavirus restrictions.

From The Slovak Spectator, employers in Slovakia can now test employees and their families for the coronavirus.

From Hungary Today, Hungary extends its coronavirus restrictions until March.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Hirado.)

From Free West Media, the Hungarian government takes action against a book of modified fairy tales.

From Sputnik International, a Russian court rules in favor of the 30-day detention of dissident Alexey Navalny.

From Romania-Insider, how will Brexit effect Romanian citizens starting this month?

From Novinite, Bulgarian Vice President Iliana Yotova tests positive for the coronavirus.

From Ekathimerini, a strike by port pilots in Piraeus, Greece results in a traffic jam of over 25 cargo ships.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the corruption situation gets worse in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From Balkan Insight, Bosnia's election commission sues Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik for allegedly inciting national hatred.

From Total Croatia News, according to Veterans' Affairs Minister Tomo Medved, most requests for housing in Croatia's earthquake-stricken areas have been resolved.

From Total Slovenia News, schools will close again starting Monday in the Slovenian areas of Zasavje and Obalno-Kraška.

From the Malta Independent, Maltese environmentalists get angry over a gate blocking the way to Fomm ir-Rih bay.

From EuroNews, a newly discovered work by Mozart has its debut in Salzburg, Austria.

From SwissInfo, former Swiss foreign minister Micheline Calmy-Rey warns that neutrality faces "huge challenges".

From RFI, a gunman kills two women in southeastern France.

From The Portugal News, the Portuguese government extends its coronavirus lockdown until February 14th.

From Turkish Minute, the Marmara University in İstanbul investigates an academic for allegedly "inappropriate" references to Turkish President Erdoğan.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Armenpress, an anti-government protest ends in Yerevan, Armenia.

From In-Cyprus, when driving in some small towns in Cyprus, go slow.

From The Times Of Israel, archaeologists in the Timna Valley near Eilat, Israel find purple-dyed textile fragments dating to the time of King David.

From Egypt Today, criminal gangs reportedly kidnap 38 Egyptians in western Libya.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia reports a slight increase in new coronavirus cases.

From The New Arab, Jordan demands that Israel vaccinates the Palestinians against the coronavirus.

From IranWire, two teenagers die in a fire at a makeshift schoolhouse in the Iranian province of Khuzestan.

From Pakistan Today, according to Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan should stop chasing after the western mindset.

From India Today, four farmers unions withdraw from a protest against the Indian governments three farm bills.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh's northern belt area achieves record high tea production.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan parliamentcritters are invited to receive coronavirus PCR tests.

From Gatestone Institute, where is the outrage over Arab medical apartheid?

From The Jakarta Post, hundreds of Rohingya go missing from a refugee camp in the Indonesian province of Aceh.

From Free Malaysia Today, environmental groups lobby to save a forest reserve in the Malaysian state of Selangor.

From The Mainichi, schoolchildren in Toyonaka, Japan are served crocodile meat for lunch.

From The Stream, paparazzi and Democrat congresscritters aren't all that different from each other.

From The American Conservative, why is the U.S. military "contingency planning" for war with Iran?

From The Daily Signal, President Biden's anti-unity agenda.

From Newsmax, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) promises to fight Biden's curbs on oil and gas activity.

From Fox News, Biden's pick to run the Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice once railed against the DOJ's Religious Liberty Task Force.

From The Daily Wire, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) refers to fellow congresscritters as "the enemy".

From CBS Philly, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf (D), now a lame duck, asks state lawmakers for workforce aid.

From the New York Post, the head of the U.S. Capitol Police wants permanent fencing around the building.

And from Mazech Media, Facebook apologizes to residents of the Plymouth, U.K. neighborhood "the Hoe" for censorship over the area's name.

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