Wednesday Links

As the middle of the week arrives, so do all these things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, migrants in Europe love German Chancellor Merkel and open borders.

From Deutsche Welle, members of Merkel's party apologize for singing a Nazi-era military song.

From Radio Poland, according to U.S. Defense Secretary Mattis, other NATO countries need to be consulted about a possible U.S. base in Poland.

From Radio Praha, the Czech Republic will not sign the U.N. migration pact.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From The Slovak Spectator, "Slovaks speak the worst English in central Europe".  (Even so, I'd bet that most of them speak English better than most Americans speak Slovak, my mostly Slovak-by-ancestry self included.)

From the Hungary Journal, according to the office of Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, the asylum request by former FYROM Prime Minister Gruevski is "solely a legal issue".

From Daily News Hungary, the true friendship between Hungary and Poland.

From Russia Today, a proposal to bury Lenin and replace his body with a polymeric replica is quickly opposed by communists.  (Their opposition, of course, is pretty much what you'd expect.)

From Sputnik International, Russia is developing a hypersonic missile designed for testing weapons.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, two of the above-mentioned Gruevski's alleged collaborators have been remanded in custody.  (It seems that "remanded in custody" is a fancy way of saying that they've been arrested.)

From Ekathimerini, the Greek Parliament sets a deadline for an expected report by their Constitutional Revision Committee.

From the Greek Reporter, government and opposition parties in the Greek Parliament clash over their constitutional review.

From Total Croatia News, Croatian MPs question their government about fake news and alleged hysteria about migrants.

From ANSA, Italian Interior Minister Salvini welcomes 51 refugees.

From El País, non-Spanish are buying more Spanish real estate than ever previously recorded.

From SwissInfo, let them wear jewelry.  (Yes, this story involves the French queen who allegedly said "let them eat cake", although the last word was not gateau, which means "cake", but "brioche".)

From France24, France plans to end "imported deforestation".

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister May tries to get her cabinet to support her Brexit deal.

From BBC News, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says that the deal is bad for Scotland.

From the Evening Standard, about 50 climate protesters are arrested in London this week.  (Have they done any protesting in front of the Chinese embassy?)

From the Daily Mail, in Australia, three terrorists laugh as they are found guilty.

From the Metro, Theresa May might be soon facing a "no confidence" vote.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From the Independent, an "emergency summit" over Brexit is scheduled for November 25th.

From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland's Taoiseach says that a "satisfactory outcome" has been reached on Ireland's Brexit priorities.

From VRT NWS, police in West Flanders check trains and trucks for migrants hiding therein.

From the NL Times, Sinterklaas is coming to town, specifically, the Dutch town of Zaanstad.

From Dutch News, anti-Zwarte Piet campaigners will not get their way this year.

From CBC News, the head of NASA wants to send Canadians to the moon.

From the Toronto Sun, shortages of recently legalized cannabis will plague Canada for two years.

From Naija Diary, Nigeria's peace ambassador calls for the sharia police to arrest two women for dancing.

From Palestinian Watch, before Hamas's TV station was destroyed, it was broadcasting a "death to Israel" song.

From Gatestone Institute, the West must offer Asia Bibi asylum, and a book recounts how Jews lived under Islamic rule in northern Africa.  (These two stories from GI, the two links immediately above, and the Daily Mail story come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From National Review, how President Trump has stood up to the enviro-leftists.

From Townhall, nationalism is not necessarily the opposite of patriotism.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Schumer (D-NY) has chucked (pun intended) his old position on recounts.

From the Washington Examiner, they're heeeeeeeere.

From CNS News, the White House response to CNN's lawsuit over Jim Acosta's press pass.

From The Daily Caller, Trump wants a "you're fired" given to Broward County, Florida Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes.  (via the New York Post)

From Accuracy In Media, The Washington Post again uses only anonymous sources to criticize the president.

From the New York Post, Uber posts a $1 billion loss.

From Breitbart, the pope calls gossip a form of terrorism.  (Christianity has regarded gossip as sinful for a very long time, but regarding it as terrorism appears to be very recent.)

And from Fox News, Fox News has come out in support of CNN and Jim Acosta.

UPDATE:  I've run across two more.

From CNBC, House Republicans choose their next leader.

And from TMZ, noted lawyer Michael Avenatti is arrested for alleged domestic violence.