Thursday Things

A few things going on out there:

From the New York Post, Curiosity has found on Mars the "ingredients necessary for life".  (Marvin the Martian, however, remains elusive.)

From Military Times, five key challenges for the U.S. Southern Command.

From ANSA, representatives of the Tunisian and Italian governments will meet.

From The Brussels Times, the Belgian Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration accuses the E. U. of hypocrisy.

From the Greek Reporter, a Greek court gives some migrant smugglers some very long sentences.  (How long?  They'll have to be reincarnated a few times to completely serve their terms.)

From Breitbart London, Germany has arrested four suspected ISIS members, including one who allegedly killed U.S. troops in Iraq.

From The Local ES, King Felipe VI swears in Spain's new government.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From EUObserver, with some support from other states, Austria proposes "unattractive" migrant detention centers.

From Dutch News, Dutch teachers are urged to report on children left in foreign countries by their parents.

From the Express, E.U. tells the U.K. that their military personnel will not stay in Brussels after Brexit.

From Sputnik International, Turkey suspends their migrant readmission deal with Greece.

From the NL Times, Turkey criticizes the mayor of Rotterdam for allowing PEGIDA to protest in front of a mosque, the protests involving some very un-Islamic cooking.

From Hürriyet Daily News, more on the protest featuring un-Islamic cuisine.

From Medium, the Stockholm truck attacker is sentenced to life imprisonment and deportation.  (If you read Swedish, read the story at Aftonbladet and Expressen.)

From New Europe, one percent of the world's population are refugees.

From The Local IT, inside the slum where southern Italy's migrant workers live.

From Gatestone Institute, the motive behind Gaza's incendiary kite terrorism.

From The Slovak Spectator, Czechs and Slovaks regard food from Poland as inferior.  (Due to my own Slovak and Polish ancestry, I find this news somewhat disappointing.)

From National Review, did Mr. Bill lead to The Donald?

From Townhall, one in five federal prison should not be in the U.S. in the first place.

From LifeNews, 56 congresspeople fault Planned Avoidance of Parenthood for performing abortions on 12-year-olds and not properly reporting on sexual abuse toward children.

From Philly(dot)com, New Jersey could soon ban smoking on their beaches.

And from the Pedestrian, nursery rhymes prepare children for school shooters.