Saturday Stuff - Part 2

As I return from a short walk, since Sasquatches require exercise, here are some things going on:

From The Mainichi, what's up, doc?

From the Borneo Post, starting in 2022, all Malaysian businesses will have to charge for plastic bags.

From Free Malaysia Today, a female Malaysian con artist, who stole at least six identities, gets a 51-month sentence in the U.S.  (This shows that illegal aliens are not necessarily undocumented, but falsely documented.)

From The Straits Times, hundreds of medical workers in Hong Kong join protests against alleged police brutality.

From The Jakarta Post, according to an editorial, Indonesian President Joko Widodo must not act like Jesus by appointing 12 deputy ministers.

From the Daily Mirror, according to some Sri Lankan politicians, presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa's affidavit in the U.S. "has put the country in jeopardy".

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera accuses a private TV channel of broadcasting fake news.

From The Hans India, according to Jammu and Kashmir's director of police, terrorists are trying to damage infrastructure in the Kashmir Valley.

From the Hindustan Times, India and China coordinate their patrols in an area disputed between the two countries.

From ANI, a head constable is injured after suspected terrorists throw a grenade at a police station in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

From India Today, seven policemen are injured by people throwing stones after the death of a traffic accident victim in Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, India.

From Khaama Press, airstrikes in Afghanistan send 45 Taliban and ISIS terrorists to their virgins.

From Dawn, the Pakistani government and the organizers of the "Azadi March" reach a deal under which the march may held, but must stay out of Islamabad's Red Zone.

From The Express Tribune, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, now under medical bail, will be transferred to a hospital in Raiwind.

From Pakistan Today, the Pakistani army claims to have killed over 60 Indian troops since February 27th.

From Radio Farda, six political prisoners in Iran are "unexpectedly" granted bail.

From StepFeed, four Arab destinations make the "best in travel 2020" list at Lonely Planet.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan promises to clear terrorist from the Syrian border if the Sochi deal fails.

From Rûdaw, Iraqi security forces clamp down on protests in Baghdad and other cities.

From In-Cyprus, a U.S. congressional report on Cyprus discusses efforts to define terms of reference.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Gantz will meet tomorrow.

From The Times Of Israel, according to Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman, both Likud and the Blue and White must "put their egos aside".

From The Jerusalem Post, a painting stolen by the Nazis and later exhibited in New York will be returned to the heirs of the rightful owners.

From YNetNews, Israel imagines a future powered entirely by sunlight during the daytime.

From the Egypt Independent, after a 22-year hiatus, the opera Aida returns to Hatshepsut's mortuary temple in Luxor, Egypt.

From Egypt Today, Egypt's solidarity ministry, PepsiCo Egypt and CARE Egypt enter an agreement to empower female farmers.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a man who ran over his wife and stabbed her is a migrant from Tunisia.

From New Age Islam, female protesters in Lebanon call out Arab men for objectifying them.

From The New Arab, Dutch authorities arrest an alleged former terrorist commander.

From The Print, even as Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan criticizes India over minorities, Pakistani police demolish an Ahmadi mosque.  (The last four links come via The Religion Of Peace.)

And from Gatestone Institute, European populism finds its way to Portugal.

Saturday Stuff - Part 1

Here on a cloudy Saturday are some things going on:

From National Review, the best impeachment defense of President Trump is not "no quid pro quo".

From Townhall, when it comes to alleged peccadilloes, congresscritter Katie Hill (D-Cal) is not alone.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took in lots of money from teachers unions before changing her stance on vouchers and education reform.

From the Washington Examiner, four universities are under fire for promoting internships with a group linked to terrorists.

From American Thinker, at the funeral for Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Hillary Clinton uses her black accent.  (If "blackface" is racist, shouldn't "blackvoice" also be considered racist?)

From NewsBusters, TV host Bill Maher faults Democrats for pandering to the extreme left.

From Canada Free Press, the Democrats want "the misery of the masses" for Christmas.

From CBC News, what Canadian millennials want from their Liberal minority government.

From TeleSUR, Bolivians abroad helped President Evo Morales win reelection.

From The Conservative Woman, Americans start fighting back for free speech.

From the Express, listen to the "real world" and "deliver Brexit", you MPs, demands a U.K. radio host.

From the Evening Standard, according to a community leader, the majority of the 39 people who died in a truck trailer were Vietnamese.  (They were previously reported to have been Chinese.)

From the Independent, former Prime Minister Tony Blair calls for a new law to block a no-deal Brexit.

From RFI, a company in Florida finds away around tariffs on French wines.

From VRT NWS, nine migrants from Iraq are discovered in a truck heading for Zeebrugge, Belgium.  (The truck in which 39 people died in England is believed to have entered via a ferry from Zeebrugge.)

From Deutsche Welle, Turkey rejects the German defense minister's proposal for an international "security zone" in Syria.

From Polskie Radio, fossils of Jurassic-era marine reptiles are found in Krzyżanowice, Poland.

From Radio Prague, the Czech cabinet is set to approve new national cultural monuments.

From The Slovak Spectator, take a hike in Slovakia's Mengusovská valley.

From the Hungary Journal, the U.S. and Hungary announce joint projects to rebuild the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh.

From Daily News Hungary, the captain of the cruise ship which collided with a sightseeing boat on the Danube is placed under criminal supervision.

From Russia Today, Russian gun activist Maria Butina, released from prison in the U.S., speaks up after arriving in Moscow.

From Sputnik International, Butina didn't like being in the U.S. prison system.

From The Moscow Times, Russia calls the U.S. presence in Syria illegal and accuses the U.S. of protecting oil smugglers.

From Novinite, today is Bulgaria's "day of election silence".

From Radio Bulgaria, today, Orthodox Christians celebrate the feast of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki, known as the "protector of Balkans".

From Ekathimerini, Turkish President Erdoğan again threatens Europe with a flood of refugees if they don't support his Syrian safe zone.

From the Greek Reporter, more on Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the Greek party New Democracy presents the vote from Greeks abroad as a success.

From Total Croatia News, an international conference on migration and xenophobia is held in Split, Croatia.

From the Malta Independent, according to Maltese politician Adrian Delia, Malta is "importing slavery".

From Malta Today, more from Adrian Delia.

From SwissInfo, for the third straight weekend, people demonstrate against in Bern, Switzerland against the Turkish military operation in Syria.

From EuroNews, Catalonia braces itself for more protests.

From The Stream, "why faith is key to preserving our liberty".

From the Daily Caller, "how often should you clean your gun"?

From Twitchy, two actresses are bound to trigger left-wingers with their reasons for supporting voter ID.

From the New York Post, the solution to New York City's rat problems may be a perfume.

From Breitbart, Facebook will fund news outlets, but won't tell us which ones.

And from WPVI-TV, a New Jersey teenager makes sure that no child is left behind, when it comes to Halloween costumes.

Friday Phenomena - Part 2

As Friday slips into evening, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, an Italian leftist admits taking money from George Soros’ Open Society foundation to advance open borders.

From ANSA, police in Rome arrest two suspects after a man is gunned down.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland's attorney general indicts two men for alleged ISIS links.

From El País, with Francisco Franco's body no longer there, the Valley of the Fallen monument faces an uncertain future.

From The Portugal News, 141 victims of human trafficking were identified in Portugal last year.

From France24, is France a paradise for public servants?

From RFI, the 13th-century painting "Christ Mocked" could bring in millions of euros in an art sale.

From the Express, the Scottish National Party's no-deal Brexit plan backfires.

From the Evening Standard, four people so far have been arrested in connection with the deaths of 39 people in a truck trailer.

From the (U.K.) Independent, satirical anti-Nazi toilet paper from World War II goes up for auction.

From the (Irish) Independent, a new book reveals U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's plan for the border with Ireland.

From the Irish Examiner, nine-year sentences are upheld for two armed robbers who pointed a gun at the face of a postmistress.

From VRT NWS, an ATM is blown up in Essen, Belgium, near the Dutch border.

From the NL Times, a Dutch journalist who refused to reveal his source is released from prison.

From Dutch News, a man who threw grenades at two cannabis shops in Delft, Netherlands is sentenced to 10 years in jail.

From Deutsche Welle, the German right-wing party AdF looks at a "forgotten demographic".

From Euractiv, the German Bundestag's Council of Elders wants to impose a climate tax on officials trips taken by the Bundestag's members.

From the CPH Post, is facial recognition technology an effective tool against crime or Orwellian dystopia?

From Polskie Radio, the Polish Space Agency and NASA agree to work together.  (This means that contrary to the popular notion, Poland can into space.)

From Radio Prague, an exhibition in the U.K. shows Czech innovations past and present.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak students don't seem interested in learning about the Velvet Revolution.

From the Hungary Journal, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, Turkey releasing migrants towards Syria is good for Hungary.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungary's defense minister flags two new military commands.

From Hungary Today, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony promises higher wages for city employees.

From About Hungary, according to Orban, Hungary wants to avoid another "Röszke".

From Russia Today, Russia launches a "combat icebreaker" in the Arctic.

From Sputnik International, a Russian soldier kills eight fellow servicemen after undergoing a nervous breakdown.

From The Moscow Times, Russia detains an American suspected of smuggling drugs.

From Romania-Insider, Romanian authorities censor a report showing the extent of illegal logging.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Recorder.)

From Novinite, the Bulgarian cities of Varna and Burgas will get a total of 116 new electric buses.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarians continue protesting against the election of Ivan Geshev as their prosecutor-general.

From Ekathimerini, Greek authorities catch a smuggling ring.

From the Greek Reporter, tomorrow is the anniversary of Thessaloniki's liberation from the Ottoman Empire in 1912.

From Total Croatia News, tourist turnover in Croatia this year has already surpassed last year's total.

From the Malta Independent, the rescue ship Ocean Viking is stuck at sea and carrying 104 migrants.

From Malta Today, the chairman of Malta's Planning Authority decides to step down.  (He has the same last name as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, U.S.)

From EuroNews, the E.U. delays its decision about extending Brexit until next week.

From The Conservative Woman, the U.K.'s "Vichy Parliament" should be treated with the contempt that it deserves.

And from Snouts in the Trough, the globalists want old people to "drop dead" to make room for more migrants.

Friday Phenomena - Part 1

As the latest work week approaches its end, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the two theories about what President Trump did with Ukraine.

From FrontpageMag, how the media are a threat to America.

From Townhall, an IG report will help explain why the review into the origins of the Russia investigation has become a criminal probe.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the political contradictions of leftism.

From the Washington Examiner, why conservatives shouldn't get too comfortable with congresscritter Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI).

From The Federalist, a court in Texas gives a seven-year-old boy a reprieve from undergoing gender transition treatments.  (The author is a former transgender.)

From American Thinker, congresscritter Katie Hill (D-Cal), champion of #MeToo and opponent of Justice Kavanaugh's confirmation, looks like a real hypocrite.

From CNS News, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, President Obama invited Russia to intervene in Syria, with their troops pretending to be chemical weapons inspectors.

From LifeZette, why "red flag" laws are so dangerous.

From NewsBusters, CNN's double standard on the lack of credentials.

From Canada Free Press, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau will have to keep pace with what CFP calls the "Buffalo Run".

From CBC News, a man is found guilty of attempting to murder a policeman and four others by striking them with his van in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  (What the CBC article doesn't mention is that the man is originally from Somalia, made his way to Mexico, entered the U.S. without documents, was detained by the U.S., ordered deported back to Somalia, did not report for his deportation, and later entered Canada from the U.S.  All that and more is detailed in a report in the Edmonton Journal.)

From Global News, she's coming your way, Vancouver.

From CTV News, the Canadian Supreme Court rules that courts in Quebec don't have to pause divorce proceedings when a foreign court also examines the case.

From Morocco World News, Moroccan authorities arrest six ISIS-connected suspected terrorists.

From Hürriyet Daily News, President Erdoğan wants the U.S. to hand YPG leader Ferhat Abdi Şahin over to Turkey.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish police detain a niece of cleric Fethullah Gülen, accused of being behind the 2016 coup attempt.

From Rûdaw, 10,000 Syrians reportedly cross into Iraqi Kurdistan, fleeing Turkey's operation.

From In-Cyprus, the "Act for Heritage" conference gets underway in Nicosia, Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, the chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces thanks Russia for saving Kurdish people from the "scourge" of war.

From Arutz Sheva, Ukraine announces that it will open a diplomatic mission in Jerusalem.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel and Jordan ignore the 25th anniversary of their peace treaty.

From The Jerusalem Post, vehicles in a Palestinian village are vandalized, apparently by Jewish extremists.

From YNetNews, archaeologists uncover a Byzantine-era church near Jerusalem.

From Egypt Today, an exhibition of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun will go to London.

From StepFeed, answers to legal questions about the protests in Lebanon.

From Radio Farda, according to Iranian labor right activist Sepideh Qolyan, she and other women have suffered in prison.

From IranWire, refugees in Belgium desperately want to reach Britain.

From Dawn, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, facing criminal proceedings, is granted bail on medical grounds.

From The Express Tribune, a special court has the power to announce a verdict in the treason trial of former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf.

From Pakistan Today, talks between the Pakistani government and people who want to put on an "Azadi March" remain deadlocked.

From Khaama Press, a suicide attack in Jalalabad, Afghanistan kills at least 18 people.

From The Hans India, the Indian city of Mancherial will ban plastic starting in November.

From the Hindustan Times, a Muslim League worker is hacked to death in Kerala, India.

From ANI, according to India's Army Chief, the country's troops will get American Sig Mauer rifles.

From India Today, according to Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, plastic waste kills cows and prevents rainwater from being absorbed by the ground.

From the Daily Mirror, according to the director of Sri Lanka's archaeology department, no harm was done during the renovations to the the Ruwanwelisaya stupa.  (A stupa is a type of Buddhist shrine.)

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan presidential candidate Gotabhaya Rajapakse releases his election manifesto.

From India TV, a policeman in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is arrested for allegedly giving his wife the triple talaq after making a rape accusation.

From BESA, "Turkey's nuisance value".

From Gatestone Institute, the debate in France about headscarves is not really about headscarves.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesian athletes train in Jakarta after a tornado.

From The Straits Times, Hong Kong's High Court bans the public disclosure of personal information about police and their families.

From the Borneo Post, a restaurant worker in Ipoh, Malaysia is charged with possessing terrorism-related publications.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia plans to open an embassy "accredited to Palestine", located in Jordan.

From The Mainichi, Mount Fiji is now open for skiing.

From The Stream, as Halloween approaches, the witches are again after President Trump.

From the New York Post, a man who snubbed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at Congressman Elijah Cumming's funeral is a businessman who was once accused of forgery.

From Reason, according to a federal judge, police need "qualified immunity" to "stop mass shootings".

From Fox News, California's blackouts and energy problems could come to other parts of America.

From the Daily Caller, Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack "flirts with" a third-party presidential campaign.

And from Twitchy, Sebastian Gorka notices something interesting about former CIA director John Brennan's Twitter account.

Thursday Links - Part 2

As Thursday evening arrives, here are some more things going on:

From National Review, Montana's Supreme Court unanimously rules that a gun-check ordinance in Missoula violates state law.

From FrontpageMag, will Hillary Clinton run?

From Townhall, Democrat congresscritters have an "unhinged" hearing with Facebook executive Mark Zuckerberg.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Tim Ryan (D-OH) ends his presidential campaign.

From the Washington Examiner, police officers are rejecting Bob O'Rourke's "gun control authoritarianism".

From The Federalist, 10 questions to ask about President Trump's withdrawal of our troops from Syria.

From American Thinker, yes, Trump is getting lynched.

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Steve Scalise (R-LA), whatever document congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal) is putting together is tainted.

From NewsBusters, congresscritter Matt Gaetz (R-FL) exposes the media for following Schiff's playbook.

From Canada Free Press, the "whistleblower" is a figment of Schiff's imagination.

From CBC News, a vulgar slur is painted across the office of Canadian parliamentcritter Katherine McKenna.

From Global News, an expected lawsuit against the Canadian government for climate change will be difficult to argue, according to "experts".

From CTV News, the Canadian Liberals will have a stronger minority because the opposition is split, again according to "experts".

From TeleSUR, unrest and alleged "dictatorship-like practices" continue in Chile.

From The Mainichi, how Japanese calligraphy connects to art around the world.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia's Federal Court upholds the 20-year sentences imposed on two brothers for promoting terrorism.

From Free Malaysia Today, a group of artists in the Malaysian state of Sabah demand better protection of their creative rights.

From The Straits Times, hundreds of protesters in Hong Kong rally for Catalan independence.

From The Jakarta Post, in Jakarta, Greenpeace activists who had climbed landmarks and unfurled banners are arrested, and released after two hours of questioning.

From the Daily Mirror, a group building a kovil reportedly bulldozes archaeological remains.  (From what I can gather, kovil is a Tamil word for a certain style of Hindu temple.  It can also be spelled koil or koyil.)

From the Colombo Page, police in Colombo, Sri Lanka use tear gas and water cannons against protesting students who passed a barrier.

From The Hans India, after the BJP has a poor showing in the election in Maharashtra, an ally invokes a "fifty-fifty" formula for power sharing.

From the Hindustan Times, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gives his victory speech.

From ANI, the Indian state of Odisha intends to be free of state child marriage by 2030.

From India Today, more election results, including those from Maharashtra and Haryana.

From Khaama Press, an airstrike in the Afghan province of Balkh destroys a car bomb and its two occupants.

From Dawn, India and Pakistan sign the agreement on the Kartarpur Corridor.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani government bans the Ansarul Islam wing of the Jui-F.

From Pakistan Today, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is suffering from ITP.

From Radio Farda, in the Iranian province of Mazandaran, a thief gets an Islamic punishment.

From IranWire, the U.K.'s Fire Brigades Union expresses support for Iranian workers.

From the National Secular Society, an Islamic school in the U.K. stays open after telling the government that it was closed.

From NDTV, a court in Bangladesh sentences 16 people to death for burning a woman alive.

From The Christian Post, a Bible translator in Cameroon is killed in his own home.

From Clarion Project, an imam in Michigan spews out hate.

From the Spectator, bomb attacks are becoming normal in Sweden.

From Gatestone Institute, the summit between Turkish President Erdoğan and Russia President Putin "should ring alarm bells for NATO".

From The Conservative Woman, the evidence for a link between abortion and breast cancer, and the official silence about it.

From The Stream, former FLOTUS/Senator/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's overreach on impeachment is now common for Democrats.

From Breitbart, according to Fox News host Jesse Watters, the Republicans are "losing the message war" on impeachment.

From the Daily Caller, a DOJ watchdog tells Congress that the FISA abuse report is "lengthy" and has "few" redactions.

From Chron, a teenager from Georgia is arrested for allegedly selling fake World Series tickets - on two consecutive days.  (via the New York Post)

From NBC News, a woman is set on fire at a Taco Bell in Tallahassee, Florida.  (via Fox News)

From the New York Post, Trump might attend the fifth game of the World Series, if there is one.

And from Twitchy, a photo from the younger days of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) "shows off those high cheekbones".

Thursday Links - Part 1

As a sunny and mild Thursday hangs around, here are some things going on:

From Free West Media, illegal migrants who can't qualify for residency in Italy find another way in.

From ANSA, former Italian Interior Minister Salvini has his own Russiagate.

From the Malta Independent, Malta inaugurates a new hate crime and speech unit.

From Malta Today, the Maltese government evaluates alternate locations for a new migrant center.

From Total Croatia News, the German state of Bavaria thanks Croatia for protecting the E.U.'s border.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, green activists are outraged by the expansion of a LNG terminal in Świnoujście, Poland.

From Ekathimerini, police in the Greek region of Attica arrest five members of a gang which is reported to ram stolen cars into stores before looting them.

From the Greek Reporter, as sanitation workers in Athens go on strike, the garbage piles up.

From Novinite, according to the WHO, health in Bulgaria is improving.

From The Sofia Globe, the mayor of Nessebur, Bulgaria is accused of vote-buying.

From Romania-Insider, the Bucharest city council bans some cars and passes a tax on others, depending on the E.U. pollution rating.

From Russia Today, Russia might use lie detectors in recruiting cosmonauts.

From Sputnik International, Russia considers a tax break for that drill for gas or oil off its Arctic coast.

From The Moscow Times, a Russian commission urges Presiding Putin to pardon a Norwegian spy, in hopes for a swap.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarians celebrate a national holiday.

From Daily News Hungary, according to Hungarian MEP Tamás Deutsch, a new wave of migrants coming from Turkey should be prevented.

From Hungary Today, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, eliminating illegal migration is the most effective way to fight terrorism.

From About Hungary, Hungarians believe that aiding developing countries helps manage migration.

From The Slovak Spectator, in 1907, 15 people in Černová were killed for consecrating a church.  (Today, Černová is in Slovakia.  Back then, it was in Hungary, along with the rest of modern Slovakia.)

From Radio Prague, a Czech company works to install water-cleaning facilities in Peru.

From Polskie Radio, Polish right-wingers go on alert over "Rainbow Friday".

From the CPH Post, a Danish beer producer is in hot water for using satirical religious cartoons in its labels.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany's Free Democrat party is in hot water over ads that include a Nazi slogan.

From the NL Times, after a missing teenage girl is found in Middelburg, Netherlands, two people are arrested for human trafficking.

From Dutch News, as more migrants come to the Netherlands, Dutch refugee centers are full.

From VRT NWS, officials in Zeebrugge, Belgium launch an investigation about the truck trailer in which 39 people were found dead in England.

From Voice Of Europe, in Belgium, a gang of armed Sudanese migrants allegedly attack a group of Eritrean migrants.  (If you read Flemish, read the story at SCEPTR.)

From the Express, under the latest Brexit extension, the U.K. could leave the E.U. by November 30th.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Prime Minister Johnson launches a bid for a general election in December.

From Euractiv, according to incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the U.K. must nominate a new E.U. Commissioner.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the 39 people found dead in the truck in Essex were Chinese.

From the (Irish) Independent, the Irish company which owns the truck says that it's "shellshocked" over people being found dead inside it.

From the Irish Examiner, several groups of children from Eritrea are found in Belfast, North Ireland, allegedly having arrived in a shipping container.

From France24, the French comic strip Asterix gets a new female lead character.

From RFI, France reopens access to an ancient tomb in Israel.

From SwissInfo, an international group of judges hold hearings for exiled Colombians in Geneva, Switzerland.

From El País, the remains of the late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco are transferred from the Valley of the Fallen monument to a cemetery in Madrid.  (This should mean that as far as anyone can tell, he's still dead.)

From EuroNews, according to acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the exhumation and transfer of Franco's remains is a "step toward reconciliation".

From The Portugal News, the Portuguese government approves armed security for Portuguese-flagged ships.

From Morocco World News, a Moroccan oil company secures a deal with the Russian Development Bank to build a refinery.

From Egypt Today, Russian President Putin claims to be ready to help resolve the dam dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia.

From Arutz Sheva, the Palestinian Authority's news agency accuses Israeli police of desecrating a mosque in Jerusalem.

From The Times Of Israel, after being attacked from a hilltop, the IDF razes two structures near the settlement of Yitzhar.

From The Jerusalem Post, the IDF demolishes the home of a terrorist - for the second time.

From YNetNews, Hamas police arrest dozens of Gazan activists in an attempt to deter more protests.

From The Syrian Observer, a report alleges that U.S. President Trump and Russian President Putin orchestrated events in Syria.  (Is this more Russian collusion?)

From In-Cyprus, according to a Eurobarometer report, 40 percent of Cypriots would not mind having a gay president.

From Hürriyet Daily News, President Erdoğan slams the E.U. for its policy against Turkey.

From Turkish Minute, an aide to Erdoğan slams a French magazine for calling him "the eradicator".

From Rûdaw, Turkey claims to have "neutralized" two senior members for the Kurdistan Workers Party in the Iraqi province of Duhok.

And from StepFeed, young Arab women live their "best life", which can come with a "hefty price".

Wednesday Links - Part 2

As Wednesday afternoon slips into evening, here are some more things going on:

From The Mainichi, the Typhoon Bualoi heads toward Japan's Ogasawara Islands.

From the Borneo Post, the palm oil issue between Malaysia and India takes a new twist.

From Free Malaysia Today, the chief judges of the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak deny that mobile courts have been giving Malaysian papers to illegal immigrants.

From The Straits Times, Hong Kong's legislature kills the extradition bill, but unrest in the region might still continue.

From The Jakarta Post, Greenpeace flies banners in Jakarta protesting the Indonesian government.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan presidential candidate Gotabhaya Rajapaksa promises stern action against murderers and drug dealers.

From the Colombo Page, the final report on the Easter Sunday terror attacks is published.

From The Hans India, India's Congress Party decides to boycott televised debates.

From the Hindustan Times, all eyes will be on the vote counting in the Indian states of Haryana and Maharashtra.  (My spellchecker objects to "Haryana" but has no problem with "Maharashtra".)

From ANI, an Indian security officer in Jammu and Kashmir is injured after a terrorist lobs a grenade at a police force camp.

From India Today, according to a fact-finding team, life in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh is "normal".

From Khaama Press, police in the Afghan province of Kandahar kill two men who had kidnapped and murdered a 10-year-old boy.

From Dawn, the Pakistani government agrees to allow the "Azadi March" to take place as long as it stays peaceful.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan will join the U.S., China and Russia for talks in Moscow to revive a peace process to end the war in Afghanistan.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan won't resign.

From Radio Farda, how Iran turned the religious ritual Arbaeen into political propaganda.

From IranWire, Iran's judokas are banned from the Olympics because ther government won't allow them to compete against Israelis.

From StepFeed, if you violate laws during Riyadh Season in Saudi Arabia, it's gonna cost ya.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Turkey's defense ministry, a new operation in Syria is not necessary.

From Turkish Minute, according to a former maritime worker, interrogation rooms were set up in municipal buildings in Istanbul.

From Rûdaw, a series of explosions goes off in northern Syria.

From In-Cyprus, the captain of an Egyptian fishing boat is fined for illegal fishing in Cyprus's waters.

From The Syrian Observer, while visiting his troops, Syrian President Assad calls Turkish President Erdoğan a "thief".

From Arutz Sheva, knessetcritter Moti Yogev rejects an offer from the Blue and White party under which his party would be divided in two, with only one faction joining a coalition.  (As I may have previously mentioned, a knessetcritter is the Israeli equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter.)

From The Times Of Israel, current Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu meets with Blue and White leader (and now PM-designate) Gantz.

From The Jerusalem Post, Kurdish children are treated at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel.

From YNetNews, a U.N. expert calls for an international ban on all products made on Israeli settlements.

From Egypt Today, South Sudan President Salva Kiir hails Egypt's efforts to support his country's stability.

From Morocco World News, the debate over sexual freedoms in Morocco "rages on".

From NDTV, the Saudi Arabian law allowing women to travel without a male guardian reportedly has some loopholes.

From The Glazov Gang, what does it mean when migrants yell "Allahu akbar"?

And from Gatestone Institute, terrorists call for the deaths of Jews - from the U.N.'s headquarters in Gaza.

Wednesday Links - Part 1

Here in the middle of another week are some things going on:

From National Review, both parties like to decry the "imperial presidency", when someone from the other party is president.

From FrontpageMag, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) brings out a "fact sheet" full of distortions.

From Townhall, congresscritter Matt Gaetz (R-FL) leads Republicans into crashing a secret impeachment meeting led by congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal).

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Jim Banks (R-IN) accuses Reddit of "election interference" for putting a pro-Trump forum in "quarantine".

From the Washington Examiner, the testimony from former Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor tells us nothing not already known from transcript of President Trump's call.

From The Federalist, the media goes Sergeant Schultz over congresscritter Katie Hill's (D-Cal) alleged affairs with her staffers.

From American Thinker, some questions for former Ambassador Taylor.

From CNS News, a U.S. envoy disputes the idea that Trump's withdrawal of troops from Syria is what allowed Turkish forces to enter.

From LifeZette, former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal tells China that we Americans value our free speech.

From Canada Free Press, the "stupidest" Democrat coup is "Hillary for 2020".

From CBC News, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rules out a coalition government and promises gender equality for his new cabinet.

From Global News, more on Trudeau's plans.

From CTV News, most of Nova Scotia's crown attorneys walk off the job to protests against legislation that would remove their arbitration rights.

From TeleSUR and the "pot/kettle" department, Venezuelan President Maduro warns of "fascism" in Bolivia.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese authorities dismantle an eel-smuggling network.

From El País, the U.K. blocks a Spanish judge from questioning Julian Assange as a witness against a company accused of spying on him.

From France24, the U.S. pledges closer cooperation with France's space agency.

From RFI, French President Emmanuel Macron arrives on the island of Réunion and is greeted with protests over the costs of living.

From Free West Media, firefighters and police officers come under mortar fire in Champigny-sur-Marne, France.

From SwissInfo, the Swiss corporation Nestlé remains among the world's worst plastic polluters.

From ANSA, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte claims that U.S. President Trump never spoke to him about Russiagate.

From the Malta Independent, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees investigates a joint Maltese-Libyan interception of a migrant rescue.

From Malta Today, the Maltese government and the General Workers' Union meet with the intention of improving conditions at migrant holding centers.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia could learn from Poland about developing medical tourism.

From Euractiv, even with its nod to join the Schengen zone, Croatia may have to wait.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Bosnia and Hercegovina reporteldy fails to comply with 15 recommendations from the Council of Europe's anti-corruption body.

From Ekathimerini, an artificial intelligence system called "Pythia" helps find missing parts of ancient Greek inscriptions.

From the Greek Reporter, according to Greek scientists, Alexander the Great died of pancreatic necrosis.

From Novinite, Bulgaria has met 74 percent of its 2020 energy savings target.

From The Sofia Globe, prosecutors in Bulgaria charge five people with smuggling migrants through Bulgaria.

From Radio Bulgaria, police in the U.K. find a Bulgarian-registered truck with 39 dead bodies inside.

From Romania-Insider, locals in Otopeni, Romania try to scare away wild boars.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Digi24.)

From EuroNews, courts block the expansion of Romania's largest coal mine.

From Russia Today, a Russian Orthodox TV channel is looking for people for a reality show set in a monastery.

From Sputnik International, Libya and Russia sign an agreement under which Russia will send wheat to Libya.

From The Moscow Times, a migrant from Russia goes on a hunger strike against Latvia's refusal to allow his mother-in-law to obtain residence without a language exam.

From Daily News Hungary, 13 things you might not know about Budapest.

From Hungary Today, Hungary observes the anniversary of the 1956 uprising.

From About Hungary, remembering the heroes of the 1956 uprising.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia bans fur farming.

From Radio Prague, Czechs love their dogs.

From Polskie Radio, Poland seeks U.N. World Heritage status for the Gdańsk shipyards.

From the CPH Post, most people immigrating into Denmark come from the West.

From Voice Of Europe, a man hijacks an ambulance and drives it into a crowd in Oslo, Norway.  (If you read Norwegian, read the story at NRK and Aftenposten.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany defends its vision of an international safe zone in Syria.

From the NL Times, a "farewell Britain" party will be held on the beach of Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands on October 31st, whether or not Brexit actually happens on that day.

From Dutch News, Dutch police hunt for a drug gang from Scotland, in connection with the murder of a crime reporter.

From VRT NWS, refugees in Belgium have a hard time finding a home.

From the Express, Remainer parliamentcritters plot to create a new law that could reverse Brexit and block the Tories from keeping their majority.

From the Evening Standard, the first picture of the man driving the truck in which 39 dead people were found.  (the ES confirms that the truck is registered in Bulgaria, but no other connection to that country has yet been found.)

From the Independent, more on the story about the truck with 39 dead bodies inside.

From the Irish Examiner, the driver of the truck is from Armagh, Northern Ireland, and has been arrested.

From The Conservative Woman, a Canadian professor loses her job for telling the truth about polar bears.

From The Stream, Project Veritas puts out two more videos showing the bias at CNN.

From Fox News, former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus defends former White House press secretary Sean Spicer's success on Dancing With The Stars.

From Variety, a small group of protesters gather outside NBC News headquarters to demand the ouster of executives for the network's handling of sexual misconduct allegations.

From TechRepublic, state-sponsored groups increasingly use mobile malware for espionage.

From Accuracy in Media, media outlets turn pro-Trump stories into anti-Trump stories.

From Legal Insurrection, when Mr. Bill was president, Democrats called his impeachment "lynching".

From the New York Post, in New York City, two boys are charged with a hate crime for allegedly assaulting a Muslim school safety agent.

From CNN, a farmer in Tennessee grows a 910-pound pumpkin, and turns it into a boat.  (via the New York Post)

And from The Babylon Bee, a biological male takes on a bunch of women in a bicycle race.

Music Break

Once again, it's about time for one of these.  To start, here's something relatively new from a musician who has been around for quite a while.  This is Joe Walsh, with One Day At A Time from his 2012 album Analog Man.

More Tuesday Stories

As Tuesday afternoon slips into evening, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, according to a UNDP report, E.U. policies on African migrants are based on falsehoods.

From EuroNews, the European Commission allows Croatia to join the Schengen zone.

From Total Croatia News, the European Commission confirms that Croatia is ready to join the Schengen zone.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, construction starts on the Balkan Stream pipeline.

From Ekathimerini, Greece supports a North Macedonia that is "modern" and "European".

From the Greek Reporter, the oldest lighthouse in the world once stood on a reef near Greece's Pelion Peninsula.

From Novinite, a Bulgarian girl is Europe's student chess champion.

From The Sofia Globe, 137 Bulgarian mayoral candidates once worked for the communist-era State Security.

From Romania-Insider, Romania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs releases an interactive map showing where Romanians outside Romania can vote.

From Russia Today, due to an agreement between Russia President Putin and Turkish President Erdoğan, Russian and Syrian troops deploy to an area away from Turkish forces.

From Sputnik International, some "key highlights" from the talks between Putin and Erdoğan.

From The Moscow Times, police in St. Petersburg, Russia round up more than 800 migrant workers following a mass brawl.  (If you read Russian, read the story at 47News.)

From Daily News Hungary, is Hungary's air pollution caused mainly caused by private individuals burning waste.

From Hungary Today, at the Hungarian parliament, an opposition MP disrupts Prime Minister Orban's speech.

From About Hungary, the idea that Orban "soured" U.S. President Trump on Ukraine is fake news.

From The Slovak Spectator, three Slovak parties will not form a coalition, for now.

From Radio Prague, the Czech Republic's minister of foreign affairs wants tougher sanctions on Turkey over its military operation in Syria.

From Polskie Radio, Poland's largest opposition bloc files an appeal claiming ballot irregularities.

From the CPH Post, about a quarter of all Danes reportedly don't want Muslims in Denmark.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany's new defense minister wants the country to stop "sitting on the sidelines".

From the NL Times, police in Rotterdam, Netherlands confiscate 5,856 bottles of allegedly stolen beer.

From Dutch News, according to the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, the U.S. can help bring Dutch jihadis back to the Netherlands.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at NRC.)

From VRT NWS, about 350 security guards demonstrate outside the NATO headquarters in Brussels.

From France24, illegal migrants hit the French island of Mayotte, in Indian Ocean.

From RFI, Brexit and "yellow vest" protests dampen France's tourism outlook.

From the Express, Brexit appears to be delayed again.

From the Evening Standard, the U.K. government announces a public inquiry to investigate the deaths of the victims of the Manchester Arena terror attack.

From the Independent, the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber denies being involved.

From the Irish Examiner, a group of friends steel a keg of Guinness.

From The Portugal News, a suspect in a gold bar fraud case in China reportedly flees to Portugal.

From El País, Catalan leader Quim Torra condemns violence by his fellow Catalans.

From SwissInfo, according to an opinion column, Sunday's parliamentary election shows progress in gender equality, but the pace of change must increase.

From ANSA, the Italian government agrees on harsher prison sentences for tax evaders.

From the Malta Independent, the alleged ringleaders of the Hal Far migrant center riot plead not guilty, and are denied bail.

From Malta Today, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat warns opposition politicians to measure their words about foreigners.

From The Conservative Woman, if Prince Harry and Princess Meghan want to be left alone, they should speak less.

And from Snouts in the Trough, the Remainers appear to have won.