Late yesterday evening, a gunman killed at least 12 people at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California. The suspect, identified as Marine veteran Ian David Long, was found dead inside the bar.
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In other stories:
From Voice Of Europe, Polish children and their teachers prepare to sing their national anthem for their country's independence centennial.
From Radio Poland, Poland and the U.S. sign a deal for natural gas deliveries.
From Radio Praha, Czech unemployment is the lowest in over 21 years.
From The Slovak Spectator, the astronomical clock in Stará Bystrica gets seven new sculptures.
From the Hungary Journal, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, Europe cannot exist without its nations. (via Voice Of Europe)
From Russia Today, Russia bans its military personnel from posting data online.
From Sputnik International, a study shows that Germans would rather be democratic then Islamic.
From Deutsche Welle, the German AfD party opposes the U.N. migration pact.
From the NL Times, children in Zaanstad, the Netherlands reportedly prefer Chimney Pieten for their Sinterklaas celebrations. (In 2017, I visited a part of Zaanstad named Zaanse Schans, which is mentioned in the article.)
From Dutch News, the Netherlands has offered Asia Bibi's lawyer temporary refuge.
From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is in Brussels to talk with E.U. leaders.
From the Evening Standard, PayPal bans British activist Tommy Robinson.
From The Guardian, over 7,000 U.K. households still watch black and white TV.
From the Independent, how the centennial of the end of World War I will be honored.
From the (Irish) Independent, Irish Rail will add 70 more trains to accommodate more commuters.
From El País, Catalan police have arrested a Franco supporter for allegedly plotting to assassinate Spain's prime minister. (From what I can tell, a "Franco supporter" is someone who opposes the PM's plan to move Franco's body from its current location. If you read Spanish, read the story at Público.)
From The Portugal News, Portuguese and Spanish police bust a human trafficking ring.
From ANSA, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio says that the country's lawmakers will have their salaries cut.
From the Greek Reporter, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras promises to hire 10,000 civil servants.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish and U.S. forces patrol Manbij, Syria.
From The Times Of Israel, Syria says that their troops have freed 19 Druze from ISIS.
From Khaama Press, police in Kabul, Afghanistan thwart an attempt by terrorists to blow up an oil tank truck. (The article calls the truck, which appears in a picture, a "tanker", a term which often is used to denote a ship. However, Kabul is way too far inland to accommodate that type of tanker. The article also uses the common euphemism "militants".)
From Science Alert, a fatwa against measles and rubella vaccines in Indonesia, yields predictable results.
From Jewish News Syndicate, Hezbollah reportedly has more firepower than "95 percent of world’s conventional militaries".
From The Tundra Tabloids, a Swedish politician is charged with hate speech for noting that suicide bombers yell "allahu akbar".
From Gatestone Institute, how extremist scholars promote violence and terrorism.
From FrontpageMag, anti-Semitism isn't just for whites anymore.
From National Review, the 2018 midterms seem to have brought forth "the revenge of the white woman".
From Townhall, white women don't need to be saved by the left.
From The Washington Free Beacon, the new Democrat majority will be their smallest since 1945.
From Zero Hedge, white South Africans have been excluded from a government jobs website.
From Fox News, wildfires are still burning in California.
From the Springfield News-Leader, the captain of a duck boat sunk during a storm in Missouri has been charged in the deaths of 17 passengers. (via the New York Post)
From Breitbart Politics, the Florida gubernatorial race is headed for a machine recount.
From the New York Post, a teacher in Broward County, Florida finds a "provisional ballot box" in a school storage room. (What? Not in a car trunk as allegedly happened in Minnesota a few years back?)
From LifeNews, a pro-abortion activist tries to justify ProFa surrounding the house of news anchor Tucker Carlson.
And from The Babylon Bee, Republicans and Democrats both promise to learn nothing from the 2018 midterm elections.
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