Friday, November 30, 2018

Friday Follow-Up, Fuss, And Fun

Before I bring you today's stories, I must first present some follow-up on two from yesterday.

From NBC News, CNN has fired Marc Lamont Hill.

And from Forbes, after Starbucks bans adult content from its Wifi, one such site returns the favor.
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Now let's resume with today's things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, the "yellow vest" protests move northward from France.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at HLN or De Telegraaf.)

From VRT NWS, "Hi-Wiz" protesters in Brussels set fire to a police car.  (The pictures show people in greenish yellow vests, so it appears that the "Hi-Viz" are the northern extension of the above-mentioned "yellow vests".)

From the NL Times, Dutch customs police find "hundreds of kilos of drugs" hidden in Christmas decorations.

From Dutch News, Dutch officials find 11 Albanians hidden in trucks.

From Deutsche Welle, a Syrian is sentenced for planning a terror attack.

From Radio Poland, the Russian foreign ministry objects to how a Polish TV studio presents the "ss" in "Russia".

From Radio Praha, Czechs have donated over 8 million crowns to charity this year.

From Russia Today, Russia gets strict with military ships passing through its Arctic waters.

From Sputnik International, Russia's Roscosmos accuses Elon Musk of "hijacking" its clients.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Serbia again forbids caricatures.

From Novinite, according to Bulgaria's prime minister, 40 million African migrants form a threat hanging over the E.U.

From Ekathimerini, according to the chief of Greece's navy, they are in a constant state of readiness.

From the Greek Reporter, students occupy schools in northern Greece to protest the Greece-FYROM name deal.

From Total Croatia News, according to a U.S. assistant secretary of state, Croatia can become a regional energy leader.

From Hungary Today, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban calls the U.N. migration pact a "flawed document".

From About Hungary, a group of 12 U.S. congressmen send Orban a letter of support.

From ANSA, police arrest dozens of alleged mobsters in Foggia, Italy.

From Malta Today, Maltese Black Friday sales set a record.

From El País, Spain and the U.K. sign agreements over Gibraltar.

From France24, the French National Assembly votes in favor of a ban on parents smacking their children.

From RFI, "yellow vest" protesters boo a French minister on Réunion, an island in the Indian Ocean.

From the Express, the real reason why U.K. Prime Minister May's Brexit deal won't work.

From the Evening Standard, a British teenager is charged with spying in Egypt for taking a picture from an airplane.

From the Independent, a no-deal Brexit would be neither a "disaster" nor a "walk in the park".

From CBC News, U.S. President Trump, Mexican President Nieto, and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau sign NAFTA's replacement.

From CTV News, Prince Edward Island offers two more gender options on their drivers licenses.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Greece and Turkey cooperate to fight illegal migration.

From Rûdaw, ISIS lingers in a "no man's land" between Iraqi forces and the Peshmerga.

From Arutz Sheva, "Marc Lamont Hill's long, bizarre history of anti-Israel bigotry".

From The Times Of Israel, about 10,000 Palestinians protest along the Israel-Gaza border.

From Khaama Press, the U.S. displays weapons allegedly supplied by Iran to the Taliban and other terrorist groups.

From Al Arabiya, a video allegedly shows Houthi children to take up arms.

From National Review, "Hollywood is a sex-grooming gang".

From FrontpageMag, when some anti-Semitism is more equal than others.

From Townhall, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes near Anchorage, Alaska.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a landlord tells a Harvard student to remove her guns from her apartment.

From the Washington Examiner, Democrats rebelling against former Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) regroup.

From Reuters, Pelosi rejects any retirement timeline for the Speaker job.

From The Federalist, preventing illegal entry into the U.S. "is not comparable to the Holocaust".

From American Thinker, journalist Sharyl Attkisson files a lawsuit against the DOJ.

From Twitchy, congresscritter-to-be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compares her victory to the moon landing.  (Considering that there's an asteroid named after her, maybe she knows more about space exploration than she's being given credit for.)

From CNS News, President Trump's request to fund his wall would amount to 0.11 percent of federal spending.

From LifeNews, here are seven pro-life businesses.

From the New York Post, a former Dallas cop is indicted for wrongly killing a black man in his own apartment.

From KDVR, a Washington, D.C. clerk refuses to accept a New Mexican man's drivers license, because of poor knowledge of geography.

And from Fox News, a dog digs up a very old tooth.

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