Friday, January 4, 2019

Friday Links

As the first Friday of the year has come upon us, here are some things going on:


From National Review, so does new congresscritter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).  (I would like to give her the nickname "Asteroid Lady".)







From Voice Of Europe, a Swiss woman visiting Austria breaks the nose of an Afghan migrant who sexually assaulted her.  (If you read German, read the story at the Austrian site Heute, which name means "today".  Although the Heute story is two days old, it was too good to pass up.)





From El País, police arrest people who illegally built 14 luxury homes in La Línea de la Concepción, Spain without any permits.  (A look at GoogleMaps shows that this town is adjacent to the U.K. territory of Gibraltar.)





From the Irish Examiner, Ireland's Taoiseach still hopes that the current Brexit withdrawal plan will be successful.  (Again, I welcome any advice as to how to pronounce "Taoiseach".)

From the (Irish) Independent, a student dies after falling from the Cliffs of Moher while trying to take a selfie.  (I visited this place during my trip to Ireland in 1997.  There are no artificial barriers at the tops of the cliffs.)
































From the Nyasa Times, a gift to a mosque in Malawi results in a fight.  (When it was under British colonial rule, Malawi was known as Nyasaland.)





And from The Verge, PepsiCo rolls out the snackbots.

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