From National Review, no free country should accept "not exonerated" as a standard.
From Townhall, Special Counsel Robert Mueller announces his resignation, says that his report is complete, and nothing else needs to be said.
From The Washington Free Beacon, some of President Trump's possible 2020 opponents call for his impeachment.
From the Washington Examiner, Democratic leaders, on the other hand, "sidestep" impeachment.
From The Federalist, because of political correctness, some inconvenient facts about anti-Semitism are downplayed.
From American Thinker, there is no such thing as a "moderate" Muslim Brotherhood member.
From CNS News, the White House press secretary notes that Mueller is moving on, and recommends that everyone else should do likewise. (The phrase "move on" sounds vaguely familiar.)
From LifeZette, according to Mueller, his team did not have the "option" of charging Trump with a crime.
From FrontpageMag, what is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?
From CTV News, Canada establishes a hotline for victims of human trafficking.
From Morocco World News, U.S. envoy Jason Greenblatt calls Morocco an important friend and ally.
From SwissInfo, Swiss scientists find that chimps eat crabs.
From Total Croatia News, a Dubrovnik area project will connect Lokrum Island and the Trsteno Arboretum. (I visited all three places in 2007. If you read Croatian, read the story at Morski, whose name means "of the sea".)
From Independent Balkan News Agency, the "key findings" of the European Commission's 2019 report on Albania.
From Ekathimerini, about 30 "far-left" protesters interrupt a meeting of the University of Thessaloniki senate. (Since I take the label "far-right" with a bit of NaCl, and thus usually use quotes around it, I will do the same for "far-left", just to be even-handed.)
From the Greek Reporter, Frontex rescues 60 migrants near the Greek island of Samos.
From Romania-Insider, the U.S. embassy in Bucharest gives Women of Courage awards to seven Romanian women.
From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Turkey's operations in northern Iraq is to eradicate the "terror threat" from the PKK.
From Turkish Minute, Iraq hands over to Turkey 188 children of suspected ISIS members of Turkish origin.
From Arutz Sheva, the son-in-law of the U.S. president meets with the king of Jordan.
From The Times Of Israel, as a "final offer" from Prime Minister Netanyahu is rejected, the Knesset appears ready to dissolve.
From The Jerusalem Post, the IDF destroys Hezbollah's largest cross-border tunnel.
From YNetNews, an Israeli widow warns a conference in Paris to watch out how the Palestinian Authority spends the money they are sent.
From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi orders that the country's tourist attractions are upgraded.
From Radio Farda, U.S. President Trump's denial of an intended regime change in Iran annoys that country's opposition.
From IranWire, the rise and fall of Tehran Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi.
From The Express Tribune, a mountain climber from Skardu, Pakistan reaches the top of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain. (He thus gets the "badass" label.)
From Pakistan Today, Pakistan International Airlines brings 300 Pakistanis stranded in Malaysia back home.
From Khaama Press, U.S. airstrikes send four Pakistani ISIS terrorists to their virgins.
From The Hans India, two persons are arrested and suspected of spying for Pakistan after taking photos outside an Indian army camp in Jammu.
From the Hindustan Times, the Maldivian Parliament invites Indian Prime Minister Narandra Modi to give a speech.
From the Daily Mirror, Muslims demolish a mosque used by the National Thawheed Jama'at.
From the Colombo Page, many countries have relaxed their travel restrictions for Sri Lanka.
From Jewish News Syndicate, a German imam repeats the same old lies about Jews.
From Gatestone Institute, the Palestinian war against President Trump's peace plan.
From The Conservative Woman, would any would-be Conservative leader put Nigel Farage on the Brexit negotiating team?
From the Express, how Farage "walked out" on the "Eurosceptic supergroup" talks. (If Farage is put on any Brexit negotiating team, as TCW suggests, will he walk out of that, too?)
From BBC News, the London Bridge attackers used pink knives.
From the Evening Standard, Monty Python veteran John Cleese is slammed after saying that London isn't "an English city any more".
From the Independent, according to former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine, the contest to lead the Conservatives is an "arms race to be the most Faragiste".
From the Irish Examiner, a laser light is allegedly used to target the crew of an Irish Coast Guard helicopter.
From France24, a journalist for the daily Le Monde refuses to tell French intelligence her source. (Again I ask, what is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)
From VRT NWS, the leader of the "far-right" party Vlaams Belang has a "pleasant and calm conversation" with Belgium's king.
From the NL Times, the Netherlands becomes the first country to ban Hell's Angels.
From Dutch News, the Dutch king invites the American president to a ceremony commemorating the Battle of the Scheldt.
From Deutsche Welle, a majority of polled Germans do not want Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to be their next chancellor.
From the CPH Post, Denmark copes with a growing trend of illegal trailer parks.
From Radio Poland, the group Solidarni 2010 promises a hunger strike to demand a more vigorous probe into the plane crash that killed Poland's president. (The group met in the city of Zielona Góra, whose name means "green mountain", which is also the meaning of the name "Vermont".)
From Radio Praha, two Roma activists receive the František Kriegel award.
From The Slovak Spectator, how to feed the ground squirrels in Biele Vody, Slovakia. (Permitted an educated guess, I'd say that the Slovak name "Biele Vody" means "white waters", since it resembles the equivalent Polish term białe wody.)
From The Unshackled, Slovakia is the only E.U. member state to have no mosques.
From the Hungary Journal, the Hungarian government backs neither Manfred Weber nor Frans Timmermans to be the new European Commission president.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungary will receive uncontaminated oil via the Druzhba pipeline today.
From Hungary Today, the Hungarian foreign ministry hopes that new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would help resolve problems arising from the Ukrainian language law.
From About Hungary, the Visegrad Group "sends a clear message" about the future of the E.U. in the 2019 elections.
From Russia Today, the new Russia "quantum phone" promises perfect security.
From Sputnik International, Ukrainian journalist Kirill Vyshinsky explains why his arrest is illegal. (For the third time, I ask, what is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)
From The Moscow Times, Russian communists demand an apology and that the last season of Game of Thrones is re-shot. (I would tell them "Go to Hell", but I don't know how to say it in Russian. Perhaps the Polish idźcie do piekła will be close enough.)
From The Jakarta Post, Amnesty International accuses Myanmar of new war crimes against the Rakhine rebels.
From The Borneo Post, a construction worker is charged with eight terror-related offenses.
From CNBC, a man lights himself on fire near the White House. (This shows that the "stupid people" label is still useful. The story comes via the New York Post.)
From The Daily Caller, according to his daughter Jenna, President Bush the Younger was not a fan of Nirvana.
From the New York Post, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) criticizes his state's legislature for not passing laws lifting the ban on surrogacy contracts.
From the Insider, Venezuela's economy is so bad that criminals can't afford to buy bullets.
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