From Free West Media, illegal aliens blockade a terminal at the Roissy Airport in France.
From France24, the Eiffel Tower is closed due to an intruder spotted trying to climb it.
From RFI, French doctors start the process of removing life support for a man in a vegetative state.
From VRT NWS, excuses for not voting in the E.U. elections include the births of calves.
From the NL Times, KLM will start charging bag fees. (As if my experience with Schiphol Airport couldn't get worse.)
From Deutsche Welle, the retrial of seven men accused of forming a "sharia police" in Wuppertal, German starts.
From the CPH Post, an asylum seeker from Syria gets 12 years in prison for his role in an ISIS-inspired plot to kill people in Copenhagen.
From Radio Poland, Polish border guards expel a group of illegal foreign workers. (Enforcing your country's immigration laws, what a concept!)
From Radio Praha, Czech Culture Minister Antonín Staněk resigns.
From The Slovak Spectator, the Topfest summer festival could be canceled, because its organizer has been arrested.
From Daily News Hungary, according to Hungarian Socialist MEP István Ujhelyi, his party will approach Austrian authorities concerning any "Hungarian aspects of the Strache affair".
From Hungary Today, what type of alliance could be formed between Hungarian Prime Minister Organ and U.S. President Trump?
From About Hungary, according to Orban, Christians must be ready to defend their families, faith and country.
From Russia Today, according to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Russia's population will increase by 10 million if the country gives up abortion.
From Sputnik International, how the shift of Earth's north magnetic pole will affect the northern lights.
From The Moscow Times, according to the WWF, Russia has the world's largest number of protected natural areas. (Russia has the largest area of any country in the world.)
From Romania-Insider, thousands of people gather in Bucharest at an event encouraging people to vote in the E.U. election.
From Novinite, every box of cigarettes in Bulgaria will have its own unique code.
From Ekathimerini, a previously unknown group called Chaotic Harmony claims responsibility for an attack on a police station in a suburb of Athens.
From the Greek Reporter, vandals disrupt traffic and set fires in Athens in support of a convicted terrorist.
From EuroNews, a look at the "migrant jungle" on the Greek island of Samos.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, the Serb genocide in Kosovo must be condemned, says the president of Kosovo.
From Euractiv, although not an E.U. member, Serbia carefully watches the E.U. elections.
From Total Croatia News, an NGO demands action on immigration before the E.U. elections.
From ANSA, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio calls fellow Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini "all at sea over migrants".
From SwissInfo, "how to behave on a Swiss train". (I rode a few Swiss trains in 2015 without incident. Go to this blog's archives for June of that year.)
From the Malta Independent, what Salvini would like to do with the NGO ship Sea-Watch 3 is most definitely harsh.
From El País, five Catalan separatists currently in jail take their seats in Spain's parliament.
From The Portugal News, all cats in Portugal might have to be chipped by 2021.
From Morocco World News, a Moroccan company signs a deal to build hospitals in Ivory Coast.
From TeleSUR, Chavistas march in Caracas to celebrate the reelection of President Maduro.
From CBC News, Alberta beef producers monitor a complaint against an American veggie burger company.
From Global News, drink up, you Canuck booze hounds.
From CTV News, the final episode of Game Of Thrones includes an anachronism.
From the Express, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair recommends against any more flying milkshakes.
From the Evening Standard, four people are arrested as Greenpeace activists climb the BP headquarters in London. (When Greenpeace decides to protest in front of the Chinese embassy, please get back to me. Please note that I only request a protest. I do not suggest that they climb the embassy.)
From the Independent, with public donations, the Trump baby blimp could fly again. (As I may have said before, the Trump blimp will never be as cool as Pink Floyd's floating pig.)
From the Irish Examiner, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin defends the party's strategy in the E.U. elections.
From Hürriyet Daily News, arrest warrants have been issued for 249 people accused of tampering with the Turkish Foreign Ministry’s recruitment exam.
From Turkish Minute, a lawyer representing a defendant accused of murdering Russia's ambassador to Turkey is indicted for alleged Gülen links.
From Rûdaw, a U.N. team finds and excavates 12 mass graves of Iraqi Yezidis.
From Arutz Sheva, Israel and Hamas reportedly agree to a six-month ceasefire.
From The Times Of Israel, the Palestinian Authority declines to attend the U.S.-led economic summit in Bahrain.
From The Jerusalem Post, the above-mentioned ceasefire might be fake news.
From YNetNews, the Israeli Knesset will give the same-sex spouses of its members the same benefits as opposite-sex spouses.
From Egypt Today, a monorail line is proposed for the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El Sheik.
From Hivisasa, former Kenyan Prime Minister (and alleged Obama relative) Raila Odinga will not involve himself in 2022 politics.
From Radio Farda, Iran claims to have increased low level uranium enrichment fourfold. (If my understanding of the terminology is correct, "enriched" uranium has an increased content of the highly radioactive isotope U235, while "depleted" uranium has more of the less radioactive isotope U238. As a result, highly "enriched" uranium is used in nuclear bombs, while "depleted" uranium is used in shells for the machine gun incorporated into the A-10 aircraft.)
From IranWire, the divide between Shia and Sunni Muslims in Iran.
From the Qatar Tribune, Saudi Arabia calls for regional talks in response to tensions with Iran.
From The Express Tribune, Pakistan appoints new envoys to India, China and Japan.
From Pakistan Today, Pakistani security forces arrest 14 members of a suspected terrorist group in the region of Gilgit Balistan.
From Khaama Press, Afghan special forces kill at least 19 Taliban terrorists in several compounds, including one where IEDs were made.
From the Hindustan Times, Maoist terrorists wound three policemen near Hudungada, India.
From ANI, a re-polling is ordered for one voting place in Amritsar, India.
From the Daily Mirror, six people are arrested for suspected involvement in a training camp.
From the Colombo Page, a suspect believed to have links to the Easter Sunday suicide bombers is detained and questioned.
From WFTS, a shooting in the parking lot of an Islamic center in the Tampa area leaves one man dead.
From Reuters, in 2018, Germany spent €23 billion on refugees. (via Russia Today)
From The Jakarta Post, coastal towns and islets in the Philippines are sinking into the ocean.
From Gatestone Institute, Spain deals with a surge in migrant crime.
From The Conservative Woman, beware of......orange juice?
From National Review, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) attacks charter schools.
From Townhall, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, if elected president, would let all illegal aliens run free in the U.S.
From FrontpageMag it's a "showdown in the Arabian Gulf". (If you visit Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar or Saudi Arabia, the body of water between you and Iran is not the Persian Gulf, as it is commonly known in the West, but the Arabian Gulf.)
From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) proposes an Internet "do not call" list.
From the Washington Examiner, the DHS sets up two "massive" tents for housing migrants arriving in two Texas cities.
From The Federalist, a legally present asylum seeker looks at how illegal immigrants are treated and decides to support the wall. A quote from the article:
I couldn’t believe that illegal immigrants would be given higher priority than someone who followed the law. It just seemed unfair to me that jumping in line would put you ahead.From American Thinker, how to cause far right terrorism.
From CNS News, Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) comes out against Alabama's abortion law. (I get to use the "Romney" label again, which I created during his 2012 presidential campaign.)
From LifeZette, former Vice President Biden tries to take credit for some of Trump's accomplishments.
From NewsBusters, after he calls for Trump's impeachment, the networks suddenly discover congresscritter Justin Amash (R-Mich).
From The Daily Caller, a federal judge backs the Democrat subpoena of Trump's financial records.
From Twitchy, ESPN's president finally realizes that the fans want the network to stay away from politics.
From the New York Post, some "very cool" photos from Canada's "iceberg alley".
And from The Babylon Bee, Bernie Sanders criticizes a billionaire for giving money to students instead of to the federal government.
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