Trump Steps Into North Korea, And Other Stories

Yesterday, after leaving the G20 summit, "Dotard" stepped into North Korea to make a very brief visit with "Rocket Man", becoming the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in that country.

Read more at CNN, USA Today, CBS News and ABC News.

As could be expected, some Democratic presidential candidates were not pleased.

Read more at CNN, Politico and The Hill.

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In other stories:

From National Review, Nike becomes a disciplinary corporation.

From Townhall, the U.S. Border Patrol saves the life of a 13-year-old migrant.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the lifetime of George Orwell's 1984.  (As some have stated, 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a guidebook or an instruction manual.)

From the Washington Examiner, DNC Chairman Tom Perez finds an excuse for give healthcare to illegal aliens.

From AP News, Bob O'Rourke goes to Mexico.  (via the Washington Examiner)

From American Thinker, "how do you know that you are no longer a Democrat?"  (In my case, it's "how do you know that you've never been a Democrat?")

From LifeZette, former Vice President Biden gets into even more trouble.

From NewsBusters, ABC gives 17 seconds to ProFa thuggery and goes Sgt. Schultz on the journalist they sent to the hospital.  (For anyone unfamiliar with Sgt. Schulz, listen to him here and read about him here.)

From Global News, Trenton, Ontaria, Canada sets a Guinness world record for the largest human maple leaf.

From CTV News, former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper offers his help to his next U.K. counterpart, but stays neutral about who that might be.

Form The Jakarta Post, thousands march in a Gay Pride parade in Manila.

From The Straits Times, the Singapore Armed Forces help Ghangi Airport deal with drones, but it's not a long-term solution.

From the Daily Mirror, Russia wants to develop military ties with Sri Lanka.

From the Colombo Page, the U.S. offers Sri Lanka technical assistance to improve bilateral trade.

From The Hans India, "democracy is part of our culture and heritage", says the leader of the world's largest democracy.

From the Hindustan Times, Indian security forces in Kashmir send a Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist to his virgins.

From ANI, heavy security is in place for the start of Amarnath Yatra.  (The Amarnath Yatra is a pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave, which is a Hindu shrine.)

From India Today, Indian customs officials seize 532 kilos of heroin, an all-time high, found in a shipment of salt.

From Khaama Press, Taliban terrorists detonate four car bombs while security forces kill 25 of them in Maruf, Kandahar, Afghanistan.

From Dawn, a doctor accused of spreading HIV is released on bail.

From The Express Tribune, Prince William and Kate Middleton announce plans to visit Pakistan.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan's government extends its asset declaration scheme to July 3rd.

From Radio Farda, Iranian state TV calls on Europe to protect Iran from U.S. sanctions.

From StepFeed, here are some things which Arab mamas might want their babies to grow up into.

From Rûdaw, Kurdish authorities in Syria claim to have handed an ISIS member over to Italy.

From Arutz Sheva, a 2,000-year-old road to the second Temple is unveiled in Jerusalem.

From The Times Of Israel, U.S. envoys are expected to attend the opening of the pilgrimage road.

From The Jerusalem Post, Palestinians and Jordan condemn the inauguration of the pilgrimage road.

From YNetNews, Palestinians riot against Israeli security forces for the third straight day.

From the Egypt Independent, an effort to support women's health kicks off in nine Egyptian governates.

From Egypt Today, how industrialization has taken a toll on Egyptian women.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Turkey is ready to deal with hostilities in Libya.

From Turkish Minute, police in Istanbul, Turkey use rubber bullets and pepper spray to disperse a LGBTI+ pride march.

From Novinite, police in Athens, Greece arrest a Bulgarian and a Syrian for allegedly selling fake documents to migrants.  (While illegal aliens are sometimes called "undocumented", some are in reality falsely documented.)

From the Greek Reporter, a dolphin dance in the waters near Theologos, Greece is caught on video.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Albanians vote in municipal elections.

From Total Croatia News, a U.S.-based multinational company increases its number of engineers in Croatia.

From SwissInfo, what should be done with foreigners who went to join ISIS?  (Whatever is the normal penalty for treason in whichever country the foreigners come from would be my answer.)

From Morocco World News, a 65-year-old Moroccan athlete starts a bicycle trip from Casablanca to Mecca.  (He thus gets this blog's "badass" label.)

From Free West Media, U.K. men identifying as woman are invited to have cervical cancer checks even though they don't have a cervix.

From the Express, four people are stabbed to death in the city where knives are illegal.

From BBC News, Unite leader Len McCluskey tells the Labour party to not panic over Brexit.

From the Evening Standard, tennis fans line up for Wimbledon.

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. prime minister candidate Boris Johnson claims that a remark he made in 2002 about black Africans having "watermelon smiles" was satirical.  (In other words, Boris offers the latest version of the "it was a joke" excuse.)

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Johnson will get a fair hearing from the E.U.

From the Irish Examiner, a U.S. fighter plane from World War II is excavated in County Monaghan, Ireland.  (Ireland was officially neutral in WWII.)

From Deutsche Welle, Germany has its highest ever temperature for June.

From CPH News, Denmark opens a cultural institute in New Delhi.

From Radio Poland, Poland and Lithuania celebrate the 450th anniversary of their union.

From Radio Praha, the Czech Republic could be facing early elections.

From Daily News Hungary, pray for Hungary and ring your church bells, said Pope Callixtus III.

From Russia Today, Russia shows off its fighter jet and helicopter aerobatic squads.

From Sputnik International, President Putin makes the Russian military available for flood relief.

From Gatestone Institute, Christians in Diffa, Niger are told to get out in three days or be killed.

From the New York Post, Putin says that liberalism is "eating itself".

From the Daily Caller, after congresscritter AOC (D-NY) questions the qualifications of first daughter Ivanka Trump, her own qualifications are questioned.

And from Fox News, an Oregon man plays his sax, which brings on a mooooving experience.

Saturday Stuff

On a sunny and very warm Saturday, here are some things going on:

From Free West Media, a study shows young adults to be less accepting of LGBTQs.

From the Express, a poll shows that the Liberal Democrats could win the next U.K. general election.

From BBC News, U.K. Liberal Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says that he's "not too frail" to lead his party or to be prime minister.  (According to the article, he's 70 years old, which is younger than the current U.S. president and two Democrats who want to unseat him.)

From the Evening Standard, Sir Elton John has some harsh words for Russian President Putin.

From the Independent, in the city where knives are illegal, a railway station is closed due to a man with a knife reportedly being on the tracks.

From the Irish Examiner, "tens of thousands" attend the Dublin Pride parade.

From CBC News, the trash arrives back home.

From Global News, at the G20 summit, Prime Minister Trudeau asks about two Canadians detained in China.

From CTV News, a woman is arrested after an LGBTQ protest at the home of the mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.

From RFI, about 500,000 people are expected to turn out for the Paris Pride celebration.

From SwissInfo, the Swiss Red Cross elects its new president.

From Deutsche Welle, a neo-Nazi group reportedly orders body bags and makes "kill lists".

From Radio Praha, a Czech scientist goes to the Congo.

From The Slovak Spectator, explore Jasov Monastery near Košice, Slovakia with audio guides in six languages.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungary looks to Australia for how to deal with illegal migration.

From Russia Today, Putin says that LGBTs should leave the kids alone.

From Sputnik International, Putin holds his last press conference for the G20 summit.

From Romania-Insider, Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila is elected president of her party.

From the Sofia Globe, Bulgarian President Roumen Radev claims that the deal to purchase F-16s from the U.S. has a "hidden cost of a billion", with which Defense Minister Krassimir Karakachanov disagrees.

From Ekathimerini, 13 asylum seekers are arrested at the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos.

From the Greek Reporter, a Muslim party in Thrace claims to be neglected by the Greek government.

From Total Croatia News, Croatian motorcyclists protest a toll collection on a bridge between the mainland and the island of Krk.

From the Malta Independent, the captain of the Sea-Watch 3 is detained after the vessel reportedly rams a police boat and docks without permission.

From Malta Today, more on the arrest of her captain after the Sea-Watch 3 docks in Lampedusa, Italy.

From The Portugal News, for the first time in 10 years, the Portuguese Navy fires missiles.

From Morocco World News, Morocco remains the world's largest producer of weed.

From Egypt Today, a woman is arrested for allegedly joining the Muslim Brotherhood.

From Arutz Sheva, Israel is reportedly preparing for a military solution against Hamas.

From The Times Of Israel, the Palestinian Authority arrests a businessman who attended the U.S.-led conference in Bahrain.

From The Jerusalem Post, due to a drought, a 3,400-year-old palace is discovered in Iraqi Kurdistan.

From YNetNews, the Israeli airline El Al welcomes its first Druze flight attendant.

From Hürriyet Daily News, a Turkish court sentences gendarmerie officers and prosecutors who illegally stopped National Intelligence Organization trucks at the Turkey-Syria border.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish President Erdoğan claims that U.S. President Trump will not impose sanctions over Turkey's purchase of Russia air defense systems.

From Rûdaw, according to a Peshmerga chief, ISIS has regrouped and is stronger than ever.

From Radio Farda, Iran is reportedly using Malaysia to sidestep U.S. sanctions on oil.

From Dawn, 200 missing Baloch have returned home in 2019.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority bans naswar on all flights.

From Pakistan Today, according to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, empowering women is his government's "foremost priority".

From Khaama Press, a Taliban IED maker suffers premature detonation.

From The Hans India, according to India's vice president, the country "needs no lessons on religious freedom".

From the Hindustan Times, India proposes a July meeting with Pakistan to discuss the Kartarpur corridor.

From ANI, unidentified men allegedly attack a Muslim boy for not chanting "Jai Sri Ram".

From India Today, after a woman tells a doctor about a dog bit, the doctor tells her to bite the dog back.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa states his opposition to the death penalty.

From the Colombo Page, according to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Zion Church of Batticaloa will be rebuilt before Christmas.

From Gatestone Institute, Europe's missing ISIS terrorists.

From The Jakarta Post, an attack at a Philippine military base was likely a suicide bombing.

From Free Malaysia Today, a drug reform advocate praises Malaysia's intention to decriminalize personal drug use.

From EuroNews, six takeaways from G20.

From The Conservative Woman, "kicked out for telling the truth" about gender.

From Townhall, President Trump announces the next ICE age.

From The Washington Free Beacon, "reason without faith is dead".

From the Washington Examiner, Mexico's president claims to have a plan to offer jobs to migrants.

From American Thinker, how Einstein's theory of relativity led to multiculturalism.

From NewsBusters, the photo of the migrant father and daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande shows that the border crisis is not manufactured.

From the New York Post, a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor wants AOC (D-NY) out of Congress.

And from Real Climate Science, the record high temperature in France just might be fake news.

Another Debate, And Other Stories

Last night, there was a second debate from some Democratic presidential candidates.  Naturally, when you have a total of 25 of them, presenting more than, say, ten at a time can be difficult.  Thus, we've now had two nights of debate from the candidates.  In reaction to the debate and other matters, here are some things going on:

From National Review, for two nights, the freak flags fly.

From FrontpageMag, the second debate was a circus.

From Townhall, on the second night of the debates, "darkness falls".

From The Washington Free Beacon, former Vice President Biden and "the great awokening".

From the Washington Examiner, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) has some harsh advice for Bob O'Rourke.

From The Federalist, even the "moderate" Democrat candidates "are still wildly extreme".

From American Thinker, the debates are a farce.

From CNS News, President Trump weighs in.

From LifeZette, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) pummels Biden about his opposition to busing.

From NewsBusters, the embarrassing questions that were not asked.

From The Daily Caller, "all the fighting from the Democratic debate".

(OK, enough about the debates.  Let's see what else is going on.)

From The Conservative Woman, the Swiss are independent, patriotic and rich, which is why the E.U. is angry at them.

From Snouts in the Trough, Chinese President Xi Xinping has a very good reason to laugh.  (This blogpost doesn't even mention China's lead in carbon dioxide emissions, its huge contribution to the plastic in the oceans, and the detention camps for Muslim Uighurs, for all of which it largely gets a free pass from the same people who blame my SUV for climate change, blame American plastic straws for the deaths of marine life, and call any Westerner who doesn't regard Islam the best thing since sliced bread an "Islamophobe".)

From the Express, voter fraud allegedly comes to Peterborough, England.

From the Evening Standard, 12 members of a British family who allegedly joined ISIS are all dead.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the sand dunes at Trump's golf course in Scotland are set to lose their protected status.

From the (Irish) Independent, a Nigerian soccer player can't stop his deportation from Ireland, but joins a team from Vietnam.

From the Irish Examiner, a man admits stealing an 800-year-old mummified head of a "Crusader" from a church in Dublin.

From France24, is Paris still the world's fashion capital?

From RFI, France's oldest Holocaust survivor dies at age 101.

From El País, the rainbow flag is taken down from Madrid's city hall.

From The Portugal News, Portugal wants into space.

From Morocco World News, Morocco plans to purchase a $250 million support package from the U.S. for its F-16s.

From the Malta Independent, Malta's National Museum of Archaeology exhibits the finds at the ancient Ta' Ġawhar Tower.

From ANSA, the captain of the Sea-Watch 3 is investigated for allegedly aiding illegal immigration.

From EuroNews, an Italian mayor's migrant rescue fleet never materializes.

From Total Croatia News, Israel's ambassador to Croatia comments on a controversial Holocaust monument.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the foreign ministers of Bulgaria and North Macedonia urge historians to speed up their work on the common history of the two countries.

From Ekathimerini, unidentified thieves blow up an ATM in Koufalia, Greece.

From the Greek Reporter, the U.S. Senate votes to lift the arms embargo on Cyprus.

From Novinite, according to Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva, Bulgaria has invited North Macedonia to join the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.

From the Sofia Globe, if you're in Sofia on July 1st, you can see the U.S. Army Europe Band in Sofia.

From Romania-Insider, Romanians living outside Romania have three days to vote in this year's presidential election.

From Russia Today, lions and crocs and bears, oh my, may no longer be legally owned as pets in Russia.

From Sputnik International, Presidents Putin and Trump meet on the sidelines at G20.

From The Moscow Times, Russian animal rights activists slam the release of captive whales.

From Euractiv, as Russia is readmitted to the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly, Latvia considers quitting.

From Daily News Hungary, according to President János Áder, Hungary will meet its 2030 climate goals.

From Hungary Today, 105 years ago today, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated.

From Radio Praha, the oldest cave paintings in the Czech Republic are discovered near Brno.

From Radio Poland, the Polish-lead V4 E.U. Battlegroup will go on standby next month.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany toughens its citizenship laws.

From the NL Times, environmentalists are already dissatisfied with the Dutch climate plan.

From Dutch News, Dutch ministers claim that their climate plan is both workable and affordable.

From VRT NWS, climate activists demonstrate at the Brussels airport.

From CBC News, SNC-Lavalin chooses to have a judge-only trial.

From Global News, two provincial courts side with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau's carbon tax.

From CTV News, a Canadian resident is prevented from flying back home because she does not have the right kind of card.  (On the other hand, if she were illegally in the U.S. trying to illegally enter Canada via Roxham Road, she'd probably have no problem.)

From Hürriyet Daily News, Istanbul's new mayor, who had to get elected twice, takes office.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish prosecutors order the detention of 27 sailors for alleged Gülen links.

From Rûdaw, according to a former Sunni official, there's no Shiite property in Nineveh, Iraq.

From Arutz Sheva, on the Gaza-Israel border, it's truce, what truce?

From The Times Of Israel, balloons from Gaza start 14 more fires.

From The Jerusalem Post, a 2,000-year-old Pilgrimage Road is found in Jerusalem's City of David.

From YNetNews, Trump's Palestinian police has "many sticks, few carrots".

From Egypt Today, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities inaugurates a Middle Kingdom cemetery.

From StepFeed, a Nigerian man gets seven years in prison for smuggling clothes soaked in crystal meth.  (One way to get yourself into serious trouble is to smuggle drugs into a Muslim country.)

From Radio Farda, President Trump's sanctions against Iranian leader Khamenei are "significant for human rights".

From IranWire, three Baha'is from Semnan, Iran have been detained for two months, their health and alleged offenses not publicly revealed.

From Dawn, five more polio cases are found in the Pakistani region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

From The Express Tribune, a madrassa teacher is arrested for hanging a child upside down.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan allows refugees from Afghanistan to stay for another year.

From Khaama Press, an airstrike sends a Taliban commander and his two deputies to their virgins.

From The Hans India, a temple in Kancheepuram, India re-opens after 40 years.

From the Hindustan Times, according to India's law and justice minister, the triple talaq bill is "not about religion".

From ANI, a group of boys remove the skull cap of a Muslim boy on an Indian train.

From India Today, prohibit Islamic polygamy, says a Hindu cleric.

From the Daily Mirror, according to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Sri Lanka's death penalty for drug offenses may impede international cooperation against drug trafficking.

From the Colombo Page, a petition seeking a moratorium on the death penalty is filed in Sri Lanka's Court of Appeals.

From the Dhaka Tribune, a youth in Debhata, Bangladesh is arrested for "hurting religious sentiments".

From Gatestone Institute, what's next for the U.N. Global Compact on Migration?

From The Jakarta Post, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatens to jail critics who try to impeach him.

From The Straits Times, Singapore's prime minister calls on world leaders to strengthen the global trade system.

From Free Malaysia Today, did the government of the Malaysian state of Sabah issue local IDs to foreigners?

From China Daily, the main tower of the world's largest joint road-rail cable stayed bridge is built.

From WPVI-TV, an avowed white supremacist gets a life sentence for driving his car into a crowd in Charlottesville, Virginia.

From Reason, "a brief history" of Senator Kamala Harris's position on abolishing private health insurance.

From LifeNews, a hospitalized disabled French man is being starved to death against his parent's wishes.

From the New York Post, New York's mayor faces more controversy for his Che Guevara quote.

And from The Babylon Bee and the "don't give them any ideas" department, California mandates field trips to gay bars for second graders.

When Democrats Opposed Illegal Immigration

Before I bring you today's list of things going on, I first present this YouTube video from Brandon Tatum.  It starts with some scoffing by former President Obama alleging that Americans are scared of "poor refugees", and then continues with statements by various Democrats (including Obama himself) opposing illegal immigration.  Interspersed are brief shots of President Trump appearing to take notice.  The point, of course, is that Trump's opposition of illegal immigration is essentially the same position which these Democrats took at times in the past.



You can also watch the video directly on YouTube, at least for now.

The Debate, And Other Stories

Last night, some of the Democrat presidential candidates had a debate.  Here are some related stories and other things going on:

From National Review, the left-wing concept of "rights" is seductive and dangerous.

From FrontpageMag, last night was the "debate of the losers".

From Townhall, at Miami's airport, New York's mayor quotes a communist mass murderer.

From The Washington Free Beacon, some thoughts on the debate.

From the Washington Examiner, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) allowing the House to vote on the Senate border funding bill "should be a wake-up call" to the Democrat candidates.

From The Federalist, this debate shows that the Democrats have gone loco.

From American Thinker, the seven funniest moments of the debate.

From CNS News, the Democrat debaters point out what they see as the main geopolitical threats.

From LifeZette, a CEO, a strategic business coach, and a motivational speaker give their analyses of the debate.

From NewsBusters, the left-wing panel of debate moderators serves up left-wing questions.

From the Express, Remainers show up at Boris Johnson's campaign headquarters and tell him to go duck himself.

From the Evening Standard, thousands of people form Extinction Rebellions's hourglass symbol.

From the Independent, Boris Johnson pledges to crack down on immigration.

From the Irish Examiner, Ireland achieves its highest-ever recycling rate.

From RFI, at least one in 10 bridges in France are reportedly unsafe.

From the NL Times, in the Netherlands, please do not text while riding a bike.

From Dutch News, a man who went to Syria to fight against ISIS has been acquitted of membership in a terror group.

From Deutsche Welle, German authorities arrest a Bosnian man in connection with the 2105 attack on the Bataclan night club in Paris.

From the CPH Post, here are the new people in charge of Denmark.

From Radio Poland, Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobrow slams the E.U. Justice Court's opinion of Poland's judicial policies.

From Radio Praha, the government of Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš  survives a no-confidence vote.

From Free West Media, Czech police investigate an alleged rape by a migrant in the village of Lukavec.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia's three highest officials sign a declaration on foreign policy.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungary refuses to extradite former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.

From Hungary Today, the foreign ministers of Hungary and Austria mark the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Iron Curtain.

From Russia Today, President Putin claims that Russia has accomplished more in Syria than expected.

From Sputnik International, Russia authorizes the world's first floating nuclear power plant to start operating, and a video shows Danish children chanting "Allahu Akbar".  (The latter story comes via Summit News, and correctly translates "akbar" as the comparative "greater" rather than "great".)

From The Moscow Times, Putin slams liberal values as "obsolete".

From CBC News, Quebec's premier shrugs off the charge that the religious symbols law makes Muslim women vulnerable to racism.

From Global News, Transport Canada finds an "unacceptable" flaw in the Boeing 737 MAX flight control system.

From CTV News, two stamps are released to celebrate Canada's contribution to Apollo 11.

From TeleSUR, Mexican authorities detain 101 Central American migrants.

From Morocco World News, Moroccan authorities dismantle a terror cell near Marrakesh.  (Is it again safe to ride the Marrakesh express?)

From EuroNews, two suicide bombers in Tunis kill a policeman and injure eight other people.

From The Portugal News, according to President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Portugal is "fully involved" with the Council of Europe.

From El País, a wildfire in Catalonia continues to burn out of control.

From SwissInfo, a look at Italians whose first language is German.

From ANSA, the captain of the Sea-Watch 3 claims to have been promised "a rapid solution" for the migrants on her ship.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia and the U.K. will increase their cooperation on defense.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Kosovo's Constitutional Court declares a team negotiating with Serbia to be unconstitutional.

From Ekathimerini, a Roman-era shipwreck is found off the east coast of Cyprus.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece retakes its seat on the International Olympic Committee.  (You'd think that the country which created the Olympic games in the first place would be involved in their governance today.)

From Novinite, Bulgaria's term in the E.U. presidency has been good for the hotel business.

From the Sofia Globe, according to Europol, the threat of terrorism in Europe remains high.

From Radio Bulgaria, in the streets of Sofia, go fish.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan claims that U.S. President Trump knows why Turkey needs Russian S-400s.

From Turkish Minute, a human rights group files a complaint with the German government against 248 alleged Turkish torturers.

From Arutz Sheva, according to former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Hailey, a stronger Israel makes the world safer.

From The Times Of Israel, Iraqis storm the Bahrain embassy in Baghdad to protest the peace conference held in that country.

From The Jerusalem Post, 18 more fires burn in southern Israel, caused by incendiary balloons from Gaza.

From Egypt Today, 413 prisoners in Egypt are released per presidential decree.

From StepFeed, a look at the UAE's cybercrime laws.

From Radio Farda, Iran just wants to sell its oil, claims an Iranian diplomat.

From IranWire, how far will the sanctions against Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif go?

From The Express Tribune, according to Pakistani Foreign Minister Qureshi, Prime Minister Imran will soon meet with U.S. President Trump.

From Pakistan Today, a cemetery in Karachi holds the graves of 600 soldiers who fought in World War II.

From Khaama Press, Afghan security forces foil an attempt to smuggle weapons from Peshawar to Kabul.

From the Hindustan Times, police arrest three men after they allegedly beat up a Muslim cab driver and ask him to chant "Jai Sri Ram".

From ANI, the Delhi Commission for Women demands laws against Nikah Halala and polygamy.

From India Today, a court in Coimbatore, India allows the interrogation of three suspects arrested for allegedly supporting ISIS.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan authorities seize over 300 gelignite sticks, 1,000 detonators, 485 rounds of ammo, and other explosive materials.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka's parliament approves a month-long extension of emergency regulations.

From The National, a U.K. parliamentcritter with connections to the Muslim Brotherhood is readmitted to the Labour Party.  (A parliamentcritter is the U.K. equivalent of an American congresscritter.)

From Gatestone Institute, "Turkey loses an ally".

From Eurasia Review, Islamic schools in Malaysia face some "festering" problems.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia is in the G20.

From The Straits Times, five things to watch for at the G20.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysian customs authorities foils an attempt to smuggle drugs and 5,255 baby tortoises.

From Free Malaysia Today, Amnesty International Malaysia is disappointed that a Malaysian delegation does not recognize the nature of the camps in China's Xinjiang province.

From Page Six, supermodel Tyra Banks applies to trademark a brand of ice cream.

And from the New York Post, an Algerian teenager visiting Istanbul, Turkey makes a catch more important that anything in baseball or football.

A Flashback, And Today's Stories

While browsing around Twitter, I ran across a Breitbart article from 2016 written by Brandon Darby and Bob Price, entitled "rape trees, dead migrants and the consequences of an unsecured border".  The article starts with this:

Many of the most caring people in the U.S. think they are helping the poor from Latin America by leaving our Southwest border unsecured between ports-of-entry, but they are not. Several of the transnational criminal organizations (cartels) operating in Central America and Mexico make an estimated one-third or more of their profits from illegal immigration.

Read the whole thing, and realize that those who oppose securing our southern border support, however unwittingly, the horrors described therein.
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In today's stories:

From Free West Media, the council of Amsterdam votes to apologize for the city's role in the slave trade.

From the NL Times, the Dutch national railway decides to pay reparations to Holocaust survivors, their widows, and their children.

From Dutch News, in the 1770s, slavery accounted for over 5 percent of Dutch GDP.

From VRT NWS, no benefits if you don't learn Dutch, says a Flemish minister.  (The variety of Dutch spoken in Belgium is called "Flemish".  Whether the Dutch spoken in the Netherlands and Flemish are two dialects of the same language or two separate but closely related languages has become a matter of opinion.)

From France24, according to French prosecutors, there is no sign of any criminal cause for the fire in the Notre Dame cathedral.

From RFI, according to a climate watchdog, France is not meeting its emission targets.

From the Express, the "shocking" reason why the U.K. Labour Party went from eurosceptic to pro-E.U.

From the Evening Standard, thousands protest over climate change in front of the U.K. Houses of Parliament.  (How far away from the Parliament is the embassy of China, which produces the world's largest amount of carbon dioxide?)

From the Independent, Brexit party leader Nigel Farage should face the "highest penalty" for undeclared gifts, says an E.U. committee.

From the Irish Examiner, a Pakistani woman and her children win an appeal in an effort to receive refugee status.

From CBC News, the Canadian government adds two international neo-Nazi groups to its list of banned terrorist organizations.

From CTV News, Canadian trash returning from the Philippines is due to arrive in Vancouver on Saturday.

From TeleSUR, Nicaragua arrests four suspected members of ISIS.

From Morocco World News, Morocco's plan for autonomy in Western Sahara gains international support.

From The Portugal News, a joint effort by Portuguese and Spanish authorities intercepts a boat carrying two tons of hashish.

From El País, a crew member from the Brazilian president's plane is detained in Seville, Spain for allegedly carrying 39 kilos of cocaine.  (He would be the equivalent of an Air Force One crewman.)

From SwissInfo, Switzerland's government proposes changes to the country's money laundering laws.

From ANSA, the Sea-Watch 3 defies a stop order and heads toward the Italian island of Lampedusa.

From Malta Today, Italian authorities board the Sea-Watch 3.

From Total Croatia New, the most commonly used drugs in Croatia are marijuana, cocaine and amphetamines.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the E.U. offers Bosnia and Hercegovina support for dealing with migrants.  (The country's name is abbreviated as "BiH", the letter i being the word for "and" in the Slavic languages.)

From the Greek Reporter, authorities on the Greek island of Santorini deny that animals are being abused.

From Novinite, the Bulgarian government approves a trade agreement between the E.U. and Canada.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria asks Russia to send engineers to help with the overhaul of its Su-25 fighter jets.

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian government adopts an ordinance regulating ride-sharing services.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at HotNews.)

From Russia Today, the Russian Orthodox Church calls for a ban on abortion and experiments involving human embryos.

From Sputnik International, a U.S. Navy destroyer tracks the movements of a Russian frigate in the Caribbean.

From The Moscow Times, reinstating Russia to PACE is a "grave mistake", or why Russia's reinstatement should be welcomed.

From the Hungary Journal, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Hungary supports the enlargement of the E.U.

From Hungary Today, competitors remove three tons of plastic from the Tisza River and an adjacent reservoir.

From About Hungary, the Hungarian and Romanian defense ministries start discussing military cemeteries.

From The Slovak Spectator, schools in Slovakia will not use devices from Huawei.

From Radio Praha, Greenpeace activists disrupt a meeting of the utility ČEZ to protest the possible sale of a coal-fired power plant.

From Radio Poland, an international Holocaust education conference is planned to be held in Markowa, Poland.

From Deutsche Welle, the German government debates stepping up its cyberoperations.

From EuroNews, 11 men, only one a native German, go on trail for an alleged gang rape.

From Euractiv, Europe's airports plan for carbon neutrality by 2050, except for their airplanes.

From Hürriyet Daily News, U.S. and Turkish officials discuss F-35 fighter jets.

From Turkish Minute, 108 military cadets are acquitted while 18 others receive life sentences in a trial over alleged incidents during the failed coup of 2016.

From Rûdaw, a Luxembourger who joined ISIS claims to be ready for prison.

From Arutz Sheva, Israel will set up a committee to deal with Ottoman-era Arab land claims.

From The Times Of Israel, incendiary balloons from Gaza start 19 more fires in southern Israel.

From The Jerusalem Post, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak forms a new political party.

From the Egypt Independent, in an attack in the North Sinai, seven Egyptian security personnel and four terrorists are killed.

From Egypt Today, Egypt and the E.U. discuss ways to combat illegal immigration.

From StepFeed, in Hadat, Lebanon, Christians are not allowed to sell or rent houses to Muslims.

From Radio Farda, the U.S. urges the U.N. to tighten the sanctions blacklist against Iran.

From IranWire, due to neglect and anti-Semitism, a historical Jewish school in Isfahan, Iran has fallen into disrepair.

From Dawn, one policeman is killed and four others injured in a suicide bombing in Loralai, Balochistan, Pakistan.

From The Express Tribune, customs officials at the Lahore airport stop an attempt to smuggle weapons and ammunition.

From Pakistan Today, Saudi Arabia abolishes the requirement for an immigration landing card for Hajj pilgrims.

From Khaama Press, NATO's secretary general claims that a peace deal for Afghanistan is close.

From the Hindustan Times, a BJP leader claims that minorities have never been safer in India than under the current prime minister.

From ANI, a terrorist is killed in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir.

From India Today, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discusses U.S.-India relations and other matters.

From the Daily Mirror, scores of refugees from Sri Lanka seek Indian citizenship.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan cabinet approves a trust fund for 33 children orphaned by the Easter Sunday terror attacks.

From Palestinian Media Watch, Palestinian officials call terrorist murderers second only to Allah.

From Blitz, East London is looking more like another Afghanistan.

From Gatestone Institute, the alarming rise of persecution against Christians in Africa.

From The Jakarta Post, a warden in the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi is fired for forcing inmates to read the Koran.

From the Borneo Post, a road accident victim gets help from the king of Malaysia.

From The Conservative Woman, a look at the real world of global carbon dioxide emissions.

From National Review, environmentalists are "hopping mad" at President Trump's deregulation of offshore drilling.

From Townhall, why student loan forgiveness is not freedom.

From FrontpageMag, a man who killed three of his Muslim neighbors gets three consecutive life sentences, but were his crimes really "Islamphobic"?  (He should hope that either Christianity or Islam, which both teach that we only live once, is correct, and that Hinduism and Buddhism, which teach reincarnation, are not.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, far-left groups urge the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to back the decriminalization of illegal border crossings.

From the Washington Examiner, everything you need to know about the first Democratic debate.

From The Federalist, the call for reparations for slavery is not about justice, but about power.

From American Thinker, three steps to understanding leftists.

From CNS News, an ad by March for Life Action shows that many Americans support restrictions on abortion.

From LifeZette, Democrats finally acknowledge the existence of the border crisis.

From NewsBusters, TV host Whoopi Goldberg says that Trump wants to make homosexuality illegal.  (This sounds strange considering that Trump has come out in favor of gay marriage.  Perhaps Guinan needs to go back to ten-forward.)

From Accuracy in Media, the media can't understand why the rape accusation against Trump is not being taken seriously.

From The Hill, California passes a law requiring background checks for ammunition purchases.  (via The Blaze)

And from Twitchy, one of the authors of the above-mentioned Breitbart article asks former Vice President Biden why he said nothing when dead migrants were found on his watch.

UPDATE:  From Breitbart, the other author of the Breitbart article above lists 20 times that the site reported about migrant deaths during the Obama-Biden years, and no one gave the rear end of a rat.

Tuesday Things

On a very warm Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, our newest SCOTUS justice tells congresscritters to do their job.

From Townhall, let's define "nationalism".

From FrontpageMag, a Syrian refugee plotted to bomb a black church.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a former Common Council president of South Bend, Indiana wants Mayor Pete (D) to resign.

From the Washington Examiner, according to the nation's sheriffs, legal marijuana is causing more crime, not less.

From The Federalist, the student debt cancellation proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is "a dangerous scam".

From American Thinker, the Democrats are plotting to steal the next election.

From CNS News, according to Vice President Pence, Mexico has done more to secure the border in 10 days than the Democrats have in 10 years.

From NewsBusters, according to Rose O'Donnell, the U.S. has "over 100,000" concentration camps.

From CBC News, Muslim women try to deal with Quebec's secularism law.

From Global News, Canada plans to spend $60 million from carbon tax revenue on "green projects" at schools.  (The word "dioxide" does not appear in the article.)

From CTV News, the RCMP gets ready to send up their drones.  (To paraphrase Bob Dylan, everybody must get droned.)

From TeleSUR, lawyers for former Brazilian President Lula will present his case to the U.N.

From The Jakarta Post, "unauthorized" drones disrupt flights at Singapore's main airport.

From The Straits Times, "drones, pollution and a water crisis", oh my.

From the Borneo Post, there are no Chinese ships in Malaysian waters, says the chief of Malaysia's Navy.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia's legislature will consider a motion to lower the country's voting age from 21 to 18.

From the Daily Mirror, female Sri Lankan public servants are allowed to wear "any decent clothes without covering their faces".  (Perhaps Quebec can learn something from Sri Lanka in this matter.)

From the Colombo Page, the U.S. eases its travel advisory on Sri Lanka.

From The Hans India, according to an official, no one should be forced to say "Jai Sri Ram".

From the Hindustan Times, the Indian government claims to have killed over 700 terrorists in three years in Jammu and Kashmir.

From ANI, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to raise issues involving trade and data when talking to Indian officials.

From India Today, Delhi tries to deal with water smugglers.

From Khaama Press, Afghan Special Forces kill seven Taliban terrorists destroy 24 IEDs.

From Dawn, Pakistan's ambassador to the U.N. presents a six-point plant against racism and religious hatred.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's government plans to crack down on sugar millers suspected of jacking up prices.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan's government tells Afghan refugees to vacate a camp near Manshera.

From Radio Farda, Iran's supreme leader orders 25 military bases to be moved out of the cities that they are in.

From IranWire, children at risk from human trafficking, and the challenges of Brexit.

From the Qatar Tribune, the port of Doha, Qatar gets a berth that can accommodate giant cruise ships.

From Egypt Today, a suspected terrorist handed over to Egypt by Libya is accused of causing the deaths of more than 50 people.

From Arutz Sheva, the next Isreali spacecraft, to be named "Beresheet 2", will not go to the moon.

From The Times Of Israel, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera visits the Western Wall.

From The Jerusalem Post, U.S. envoy (and Trump son-in-law) discusses the U.S. peace plan.

From YNetNews, Cuba works to restore its oldest Jewish cemetery.

From Rûdaw, workers start to restore a bridge that was blown up by ISIS, and which connects Mosul, Erbil and Kirkuk, Iraq.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Russian police are allowed to visit Turkey.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish President Erdoğan hints at a possible cabinet shakeup.

From Romania-Insider, Romania's interim general prosecutor asks a court in Mehedinti to prevent a girl adopted by a Romanian couple in the U.S. from leaving Romania.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at G4Media.)

From Novinite, a program by Bulgaria and Switzerland gives 2,500 children a chance to attend kindergarten or pre-school.

From The Sofia Globe, asylum applications in Bulgaria decreased by 31 percent in 2018.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria approaches the NATO standard of spending 2 percent of its GDP on defense.

From Ekathimerini, "what now for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures?"

From the Greek Reporter, on Crete, more recent sculptures are made of sand.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Republika Srpska will not establish auxiliary police forces.

From Total Croatia News, the "impressive achievements" of the "unassuming" town of Bakar, Croatia.

From Free West Media, the migrant situation in Bosnia and Hercegovina is "at the most critical stage".

From ANSA, the European Court of Human Rights rejects an appeal from the ship Sea Watch 3 to allow the migrants on board to disembark in Italy.

From Malta Today, a false accusation of police brutality lands a Maltese man in jail.

From Morocco World News, Morocco confirms its participation in the U.S.-led conference in Bahrain.

From El País, the Spanish party Ciudadanos faces internal conflict over its shift to the right.

From France24, according to French beekeepers, their bees "risk dying from hunger".

From RFI, the French government and Facebook agree to collaborate on "hate speech" cases.  (In case anyone is wondering, "Big Brother" in French is Grand Frère.)

From VRT NWS, according to Belgian authorities, an attack on the American embassy was planned for today or tomorrow.

From the NL Times, a ringed seal keeps wandering around the Netherlands.

From Dutch News, an appeal is due to restart in the "fewer Moroccans" case of Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

From Deutsche Welle, despite E.U. restrictions, German firms reportedly sent weapons-grade chemicals to Syria.

From Euractiv, German industry executives tout the "carbon-free" production of hydrogen.  (The article mentions "CO2".)

From the CPH Post, close to 4,000 election posters in Copenhagen are removed for being illegal.

From Radio Poland, a large-scale NATO exercise concludes in Poland.

From Radio Praha, according to Czech President Miloš Zeman, demonstrators against Prime Minister Andrej Babiš were really protesting against free elections.

From The Slovak Spectator, U.S. presidential candidate (and retired Admiral) Joe Sestak (D) has Slovak ancestry.

From the Hungary Journal, according to Hungarian official Gergely Gulyas, the European Commission should have a competent leader.

From Daily News Hungary, is it "impossible" for Hungary's nuclear power plant at Paks to suffer Chernobyl's fate?

From Hungary Today, the Hungarian government and Alex Soros have a "war of words".

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian State Secretary Zoltán Kovács, the European Commission should stop migration instead of managing it.

From Russia Today, Kalashnikov unveils its kamikaze attack drone.

From Sputnik International, a 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Kamchatka.

From The Moscow Times, as Russia is allowed to return to Europe's top human rights body, Ukraine walks out.

From EuroNews, the U.K. royals have doubled their "carbon emissions".  (Have they been emitting diamonds, graphite, soot, or fullerenes?)

From The Conservative Woman, technology that is truly clean is "the green lobby's worst nightmare".  (The term "green lobby" is used to denote people who want to reduce or eliminate energy technologies that produce carbon dioxide.  This is ironic because green life forms, known as "plants", require carbon dioxide in order to live.  If the production of this gas were to be eliminated, it would make the existence of green life forms more difficult.)

From the Daily Mail, a British tourist is raped and robbed in Milan, Italy.

From the Express, Brexit supporter Douglas Carswell warns of a "coup" against Brexit.

From the Evening Standard, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage would make a good prime minister according to a noted singer.

From the (U.K.) Independent, soon-to-be-former Prime Minister Theresa May announces her departure date.

From the (Irish) Independent, the Irish party Sinn Féin appears to be hypocritical about fundraisers.  (To paraphrase Mark Twain, suppose that you're a politician, suppose that you're a hypocrite, but I repeat myself.)

From the Irish Examiner, about 120 children from Chernobyl, Ukraine arrive in Ireland.

From NBC News, a New York City woman faces prison for helping ISIS.

From Breitbart, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reportedly advocates decriminalizing illegal border crossings.

From The Blaze, a CNN anchor admits that problems with child detention centers started before the Trump presidency.

And from the New York Post, in the Murray Hill neighborhood of New York City, a hawk and a blue jay go at it.