Friday Links

Now that I have returned from the road, here's a list of some things going on:

From Free West Media, Italian Interior Minister Salvini asks French President Macron who he is.

From ANSA, Salvini forbids 140 migrants on a Coast Guard ship from entering Italy until the E.U. agrees on their distribution.

From the Malta Independent, Libya recovers "dozens of bodies" from what UNHCR calls the worst tragedy of the year.

From Malta Today, Maltese armed forces rescue 67 migrants.

From SwissInfo, six standing stones are discovered near Sion, Switzerland.

From El País, a group of about 50 Syrian refugees live in a park in Madrid.

From The Portugal News, Portugal welcomes back some of its emigrants.

From Morocco World News, Morocco launches an art initiative to preserve the national identity of its diaspora.

From France24, U.S. President Trump threatens to retaliate for France's digital tax on tech companies by imposing tariffs on French wine.

From RFI, high temperatures in Paris further threaten Notre Dame Cathedral.

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister Johnson has a tense first official conversation with German Chancellor Merkel.

From the Evening Standard, Johnson and Macron dig in on Brexit.

From the (U.K.) Independent, Johnson apparently already has his own email scandal.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish Tánaiste Simon Coveney finds Johnson's approach to Brexit "very unhelpful".

From the Irish Examiner, according to Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, a hard Brexit would give rise to some residents of Northern Ireland desiring unification with the rest of Ireland.

From VRT NWS, Flemish Prime Minister Liesbeth Homans initiates proceedings to withdraw official recognition of a mosque in Leuven, Belgium.

From the NL Times, quays in Amsterdam will be blocked off during an upcoming Pride March, due to fear of collapse.

From Dutch News, Dutch transport companies won't enforce a ban on burkas because it's "unworkable".  (If you read Dutch, read the story at AD.)

From Deutsche Welle, despite the "tense" natural of the above-mentioned conversation, Merkel invites Johnson to Berlin.

From Polskie Radio, a ship carrying American natural gas arrives in Świnoujście, Poland.

From Radio Praha, according to archaeogeneticists, modern Czechs descend mainly from people in the area before the Slavs.

From the Hungary Journal, President Janos Ader sets the date for Hungary's local elections.

From Daily News Hungary, a Hungarian celebrity known for a form of self-torture wants to be the mayor of Budapest.

From Hungary Today, Szilárd Suhajda becomes the first Hungarian to reach the summit of K2.

From About Hungary, Hungarian students count up their points to qualify for admission to university.

From Sputnik International, a Russian reconnaissance plane flies over a Canadian military base.

From The Moscow Times, Russia sends large amounts of supplies to its Arctic military bases.

From EuroNews, before an election rally in Moscow, Russian police raids the homes of opposition activists.

From Romania-Insider, the U.S. embassy in Romania donates $500,000 to a trust for the restoration of a fortified church in Alma Vii.

From Novinite, Bulgarian checkpoints at the borders with Greece, Turkey, Serbia and Romania see lots of traffic.

From The Sofia Globe, the Bulgarian Supreme Court upholds the right a same-sex couple, one an E.U. citizen and the other from outside the E.U., to reside in Bulgaria.

From Radio Bulgaria, the Bulgarian parliament rejects their president's veto of the law ratifying the purchase of American F-16 aircraft.  (This sounds like the equivalent of the U.S. procedure of "overriding" a president's veto.)

From Ekathimerini, the U.S. actively supports the East Mediterranean trilateral alliance.

From the Greek Reporter, the mules and donkeys which built modern Santorini.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to a former president of Montenegro, Serbs in that country should participate in its government.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia and Slovenia reach an agreement on cross-border truck traffic.

From Euractiv, the E.U. continues to fund research for coal and steel.

From CBC News, a Canadian gets a police visit for Tweeting "life is short, steal a walrus".

From Global News, a monument to the explorer Samuel de Champlain will be reinstalled in Orillia, Ontario with input from the city and First Nations.

From CTV News, the Canadian Supreme Court rules that military trials do not require juries.

From TeleSUR, Cubans celebrate "National Rebellion Day".

From Hürriyet Daily News, Greece reportedly offers an olive branch to Turkey.

From Turkish Minute, unregistered Syrians plan to protest the Istanbul governor's order that they leave the city.  (Is "unregistered" the latest euphemism for the "illegal" in "illegal alien"?)

From Rûdaw, ISIS shells several villages south of Kirkuk, Iraq.

From Arutz Sheva, a forest fire in northern Israel threatens the Basilica of the Transfiguration.  (The basilica is believed to be the location of the transfiguration of Jesus.)

From The Times Of Israel, a teen is stabbed outside an LGBT youth hostel in Tel Aviv, possibly by his brother.

From The Jerusalem Post, four possible scenarios for Israel's next government.

From YNetNews, Cyprus releases five Israelis arrested for an alleged gang rape and keeps seven others in custody.

From Egypt Today, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry praises Egypt's efforts to develop its energy sector.

From StepFeed, how Tunisia's recently departed president tried to advance women's rights.

From Radio Farda, Azerbaijan rescues the crew of an Iranian cargo ship before it sinks in the Caspian Sea.

From IranWire, Iran's longstanding financial dispute with the U.K. gets more complicated.

From Dawn, is the Pakistani media as free as Prime Minister Imran Khan claims?

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani cabinet approves allowing dual citizens to contest elections.  (The article links to a government website.)

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani politician Maryam Nawaz calls her own party's government "ineligible and incompetent".

From Khaama Press, U.S. President Trump gets some advice from the leader of Hezb-e-Islami.

From the Hindustan Times, Elon Musk wants Tesla electric vehicles to run on Indian roads in 2020.

From ANI, police in Moradabad, India recover 698 old silver coins from a laborer.

From India Today, Delhi police nab a drug kingpin and an Afghan national with 130 kilos of cocaine.

From the Daily Mirror, seven Muslim Sri Lankan parliamentcritters are sworn back into their old ministerial positions.

From the Colombo Page, the Muslim Women's Action Network urge amendment of the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act.

From CNN, NBA player Enes Kanter closes one of his basketball camps after the mosque hosting it is threatened by the Turkish consulate in New York.

From Al Arabiya, reported Qatari complicity in a terror attack in Somali causes an outcry on social media.

From Gatestone Institute, an Englishman misunderstands Iran.

From The Jakarta Post, Mount Tangkuban Parahu in West Java erupts.

From The Straits Times, over 1,000 protesters stage a sit-in at Hong Kong airport.

From The Borneo Post, the remand of a Malaysian judge who allegedly wrongly released illegal immigrants is extended for five days.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia's affirmative action policy should continue being based on need, not race, says the president of the PKP.

From The Conservative Woman, five key tests faced by the U.K.'s new prime minister.

From Snouts in the Trough, why it's so hot at Heathrow Airport.

From National Review, the Senate Intelligence Committee confirms that Russians hacked the electoral system in 50 states in 2016, but did not change any vote counts.

From FrontpageMag, a high school in New Jersey allows two Muslim students to proselytize in multiple classrooms.  (Does separation of church and state apply only to Christians?)

From Townhall, "we are a nation of laws".

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) accuses other candidates of not supporting women in the workforce.

From the Washington Examiner, according to President Trump, Guatemala is signing an agreement to reduce asylum applications.

From The Federalist, how a book by Howard Zinn led to Antifa.

From American Thinker, the targeting of police.

From CNS News, attacks on the electoral college are motivated by a desire for power.

From LifeZette, Trump weighs in on the attacks against New York police.

From NewsBusters, Snopes can't seem to understand that The Babylon Bee is satire.

From The Stream, the BBC claims that "we have only 18 months left to save the planet from climate change".  (AOC gave us seven years.)

From the New York Post, two MLB greats threaten to boycott Derek Jeter's inauguration at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

And from Twitchy, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) seems to be inconsistent about whether people are allowed to refer to her as "AOC".