It's the last Friday of the year, and even though the span between Christmas and New Year's might seem quiet, things still keep going on.
From The Telegraph, South Korea seizes a Hong Kong tanker after it delivers refined petroleum to a North Korean vessel. (via The Blacksphere)
From Russia Today, an American-born investor is sentenced to nine years by a Moscow court, after being tried in absentia.
From BBC News, gunmen kill at least nine Coptic Christians in Cairo. (via The Daily Caller)
From Reuters, police disperse protesters in Iran.
From American Thinker, something has been going on in Iran, which has been ignored by the Western media.
From FrontpageMag, unfavorable Western attitudes toward Islam did not start with the Crusades.
From National Review, we're in "the age of outrage".
From Townhall, President Trump says no wall, no DACA.
From Voice Of Europe, in Berlin, women need a safe space.
From the Express, Germany has their highest inflation rate in five years.
From the Evening Standard, two people are chemically attacked in the Isle of Dogs neighborhood in London. (A woman was hit by acid, and an "Asian" man was "assaulted with an alkaline solution". In U.K. codespeak, "Asian" often means "Muslim".)
From The Sun, acid attacks have become so common in London that delivery drivers have mapped their locations. (via Brietbart London)
From The Local FR, two people in France, who have no known connection to each other, have been arrested on terror conspiracy charges.
From TRT World, the number of migrants entering Spain by sea will triple in 2017 from the previous year.
From the NL Times, in the Netherlands, murders have increased by 43 percent.
From Politico, according to former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair's institute, populism had not yet peaked.
From LifeNews, it's easy to buy abortion pills online.
From Fox News, the Republic of Congo releases a naturalized American citizen after holding him for a year. (The Republic of the Congo is a former French colony, not to be confused with the nearby Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was ruled by Belgium.)
From the Deccan Chronicle, a woman claims to be threatened because of her progressive interpretation of the Koran.
From the Kaplan Herald, the Pentagon will review their counter-terrorism training in response to a demand by CAIR.
From Arutz Sheva, a member of Hamas tells Trump, "Palestine will be your graveyard." (The last three links come via The Religion Of Peace.)
From the National Post, seven weird scientific discoveries from 2017.
From ITV, the time U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher refused to fly with a panda. (via the New York Post)
From the New York Post, the current cold weather has produced a strange form of ice.
And from the Financial Times, some weird ways to celebrate the New Year.
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