Thursday Things

Here on the last Thursday in April are some things going on:

From Russia Today, President Putin (RU) is ready to tell President Trump (USA) about his talks with leader Kim (NK).

From Sputnik International, Syriac Christians in Sweden expect a [bleep]ing civil war.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From The Moscow Times, according to Putin, security guarantees by the U.S. are unlikely to get Kim to denuclearize.

From the Hungary Journal, according to Prime Minister Orban, the Belt and Road Initiative is in line with Hungary's interests.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian Secretary of State Miklos Soltész calls for Balkan nations to join forces.

From Hungary Today, what the ban on nighttime flights to and from Liszt Ferenc Airport will mean to the area and to small airlines.

From About Hungary, Hungary's bomb disposal unit receives new equipment.

From The Slovak Spectator, volunteers will help tourists find their way around Bratislava.

From Radio Praha, the Czech Republic's cultural history will be posted on the Internet.

From Radio Poland, Poland suspects crude oil imports from Russia.

From Deutsche Welle, Germans are becoming more hostile to migrants.

From the NL Times, four out of ten Dutch have no interest in King's Day.  (Two years ago, King's Day occurred during my visit to the Netherlands, so I wore my orange knit hat to observe King's Day.  If an American visitor can do that, surely so can the natives.)

From Dutch News, the Netherlands granted protected status to about 6,000 refugees last year.

From VRT NWS, an old cobblestone roadway is accidentally discovered in Asper, Gavere, Belgium.

From France24, French mayors urge the central government to do more for asylum seekers.

From RFI, French President Emmanuel Macron promises tax cuts and a "return to public order".

From the Express, besides the U.K., two other countries could leave the E.U.

From the Evening Standard, Extinction Rebellion ends their protests in London with a "closing ceremony".  (Since China is the world's largest carbon dioxide emitter, was the "ceremony" anywhere near the Chinese embassy?)

From the Independent, only 1.7 percent of reported rapes in England and Wales are prosecuted.

From the Irish Examiner, take Irish border concerns seriously, warns a bombing victim.

From CBC News, the Canadian province of Ontario cancels a tree-planting program.

From Global News, Ontario's chamber of commerce asks the provincial government to abandon a plan to make gas stations display carbon tax stickers.  (Once again, I ask my neighbors to the north, could you please just say the word "dioxide"?)

From CTV News, this could be really bad dam news.

From Morocco World News, according to a study, Morocco has done a better job against terrorism than either Tunisia or Egypt.

From El País, born in Spain, lived all their lives in Spain, but may not vote.

From Total Croatia News, what steps can you take for sustainable tourism in Dubrovnik?

From Independent Balkan News Agency, U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo Philip Kosnett warns against "selective justice".  (Considering the history of the U.S., another way to put it would be "don't make the same mistakes that we did".)

From Ekathimerini, Greece's Culture Ministry announces the discovery of an "exceptionally important" Bronze Age settlement.

From the Greek Reporter, Greek taxpayers are already delinquent to over €2 billion.

From Novinite, over 4,500 young Bulgarians live in a criminal environment.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Istanbul rolls out the carpet - of tulips.  (During my aforementioned trip to the Netherlands, my tour group was told that tulips do not originate there, but from western Asia.  The Netherlands got tulips from Austria Hungary, who got them from the Ottoman Empire, the predecessor of modern Turkey.)

From Turkish Minute, Erdoğan has been exiled from Turkey and is pessimistic about ever returning.  (This Erdoğan is not the country's president.)

From Rûdaw, women killed for honor are Kurdistan's forgotten victims.

From Arutz Sheva, a third Hezbollah tunnel into Israel has been found.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel tells its citizens to leave Sri Lanka.

From The Jerusalem Post, a convicted Palestinian terrorist has been a U.S. citizen since 2008.

From YNetNews, about 300 IDF paratroopers train on a U.S. base in Germany.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt extends its state of emergency for three months.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi celebrates Sinai Liberation Day.

From Radio Farda, in an opinion column, Iranian leader Khamenei shows weakness by bringing Iraqi Shiite militias into the country.

From Dawn, archaeologists discover a 2,200-year-old Indo-Greek workshop.

From The Express Tribune, according to Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan will not intervene in Afghanistan's internal conflicts.

From Pakistan Today, female Pakistani lawmakers slam Khan's "misogynist remarks".

From Khaama Press, a terrorist in Kabul, Afghanistan experiences premature detonation.

From The Hans India, the hazards of growing crops can sometimes be very large.

From Gatestone Institute, is there free speech in Denmark?

From The Conservative Woman, left-wing contempt for Christians.

From Snouts in the Trough, will Notre Dame Cathedral undergo a conversion?

From CNN, former Senator and Vice President Biden announces his presidential campaign.

From National Review, a Massachusetts judge is charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly helping a man evade ICE.

From Townhall, Biden claims that President Trump is the "worst thing in his lifetime", but there's plenty of evidence to the contrary.

From FrontpageMag, Florida starts cracking down on sanctuary cities.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the NRA sues Los Angeles requiring contractors to indicate if they support the group.

From the Washington Examiner, a CNN editor claims that the "religious right" is "flummoxed" by South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg's sexuality, his evidence being one Tweet.

From The Federalist, the five times in which the Mueller investigation broke prosecutorial rules.

From American Thinker, why it's hypocritical to call out Notre Dame "truthers".

From CNS News, hundreds of people protest in front of the Turkish embassy to denounce Turkey's denial of the Armenian genocide.  (This shows that when I recommend that some people should protest in front of an embassy, such as China's for its carbon dioxide output, it's not far-fetched.)

From LifeZette, presidential candidate Biden will not get an endorsement from his former boss.

From Reason, Trump's son-in-law argues for merit-based immigration.

From Accuracy in Media, Harvard can't figure out why Americans don't trust the media.

From the New York Post, New York Mayor de Blasio (D) backs off on banning foreign flags in the city's parks.  (Isn't the U.N. building, which is surrounded by numerous foreign flags, in New York?)

And from The Babylon Bee, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) proposes to solve a problem created by big government with an one created by an even bigger government.