Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Tuesday Tidings

On a partly cloudy Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Republican leaders condemn congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) comparison of vaccination logos with yellow stars that the Nazis forced Jews to wear.

From FrontpageMag, several Democrat congresscritters form a Hamas Caucus.

From Townhall, the dispute in the Middle East is about religion, not land.

From The Washington Free Beacon, child soldiers in the culture war.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump seeks to have a lawsuit for emotional distress allegedly suffered during the Capital riot filed by congresscritter Eric Swalwell (D-Cal) dismissed.

From The Federalist, a jewelry store in Philadelphia owned by an immigrant from Bangladesh that was ransacked by BLM rioters remains closed.

From American Thinker, how Trump Derangement Syndrome could actually save America.

From CNS News, according to Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), Senator Chuck Schumer's "Endless Frontier Act" is "an orgy of spending porn".

From LifeZette, White House press secretary Jen Psaki claims to have a hard time keeping up with President Biden.

From NewsBusters, according to Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Twitter allows celebrities to "encourage violence" against him.

From Canada Free Press, are Dr. Fauci and others no longer trying to flatten the coronavirus curve, but to bury it?

From Global News, Jewish communities in Canada are on edge due to a "troubling rise" of anti-Semitism.

From TeleSUR, the Colombian government and striking workers reach preliminary agreements.

From The Conservative Woman, the statue topplers are given a defeat.

From the Evening Standard, while visiting the Orkney Islands, Princess Kate, a.k.a. the Duchess of Cambridge, assures a young boy that she is "not the prince".

From the Irish Examiner, new hospitality guidelines in Ireland are delayed over a disagreement over how many people should be allowed to sit at the same table.

From The Brussels Times, the hunt for Belgian terror suspect Jürgen Conings.

From Dutch News, coronavirus infections and hospitalizations in the Netherlands are at their lowest levels since last October.

From the CPH Post, Denmark will donate 3 million coronavirus vaccine doses to developing countries.

From Free West Media, a Swedish woman is beaten unconscious by four immigrant men for "looking at" them.

From Hungary Today, Hungary supports banning Belarusian flights from E.U. airspace in response to Belarus's diversion of a flight to Minsk to arrest a journalist.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at HVG.)

From Sputnik International, according to the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, Russia is ready to protect the rights of a Russian citizen who was detained with the abovementioned journalist.

From ReMix, according to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, "Belarusian airspace is creating dangers long unseen" in his part of Europe.

From The Sofia Globe, according to Bulgaria's caretaker foreign minister, Belarus committed air piracy by diverting the flight to Minsk.

From Ekathimerini, according to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the coronavirus vaccination of children in Greece over age 12 will be considered.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to E.U. Ambassador Luigi Soreca, Albania has passed the E.U. test with its recent elections.

From Balkan Insight, supporters of the late Yugoslavian dictator Josip Broz Tito celebrate "Youth Day" in Belgrade, Serbia and Kumrovec, Croatia.

From Malta Today, Air Malta decides to stay out of Belarusian airspace.

From Italy24News, the house of the recently departed Italian musician Franco Battiato, in the village of Milo on the island of Sicily, will become a cultural asset.

From RFI, a French woman jailed for attempting to blow up a car packed with gas cannisters near the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris appeals her 30-year sentence.

From EuroNews, is Morocco using illegal migration as a bargaining chip against the E.U.?

From Euractiv and the "show me your papers" department, E.U. leaders approve a coronavirus travel certificate.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan authorities arrest two suspected ISIS terrorists.

From Turkish Minute, a Turkish woman whose husband and two children died trying to flee across the Aegean Sea, is detained over alleged Gülen links.

From The Times Of Israel, a Jewish man beaten by an Arab mob thanks the Arab nurse who saved him.

From Egypt Independent, EgyptAir plans to vaccinate its workers against the coronavirus.

From The New Arab, Iraqis launch massive protests in Baghdad after activists are killed.

From IranWire, according to a Iranian Christian priest, converts to Christianity are "living a half-life in Iran".

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood tests positive for the coronavirus.

From the Afghanistan Times, 41 people are freed from a Taliban jail in the Afghan province of Herat.

From the Hindustan Times, from where did the cyclone Yaas get its name?

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka reports 24 cases of "black fungus", but none have anything to do with the coronavirus.

From The Straits Times, when in Singapore, wear your mask.

From the Borneo Post, travelers to the Malaysian territory of Labuan must take a PCR coronavirus test three days before departing and undergo quarantine upon return.

From Vietnam Plus, a virtual meeting between ASEAN foreign ministers and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is delayed due to technical difficulties.

From Gatestone Institute, the Iranian mullahs will pursue nukes, even with a deal.

From The Stream, a tour of audits of the 2020 election.

From The Daily Signal, detransitioned men and women describe how "frighteningly" easy it was to get transgender surgeries and hormones.

From Space War, Russia's cybersecurity strategy of hack, disinform and deny.

From The American Conservative, Afghanistan was President Bush the Younger's first disastrous war.

From CNET, just two months ahead of the Olympics, the U.S. issues an advisory against traveling to Japan.

From The Western Journal, leaked documents show how Facebook tried to censor "vaccine hesitancy".

From CBS Philly, how policing in Pennsylvania has changed since the murder of George Floyd a year ago.

From Fox News, conservatives slam Democrats over their threats to pack the Supreme Court.

From The Daily Wire, according to TDW writer Michael Knowles, there is no reason to believe that extraterrestrial life exists.

From the Daily Caller, 20 states send a letter to Senate leaders urging the rejection of President Biden's nominee to head the ATF.

From Newsmax, don't warp Dr. King's legacy by dishonoring it.

From Breitbart, Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) launch the bipartisan Financial Innovation Caucus.

From AP News, a woman attending Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas convenes her own grand jury after prosecutors decline to bring charges against her alleged rapist.  (via the New York Post)

From the New York Post, the first anniversary of George Floyd's death does not go well for some people, including a New York mayoral candidate.

And from BirminghamLive, the line from Hamlet "to be or not to be" gets a new meaning.  (via the New York Post)

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