Outside of the United States, here are some things going on:
From CBC News, Halkirk, Alberta, after producing coal, oil and gas, tries to produce wind power.
From Global News, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defends his system for appointing judges.
From TeleSUR, Venezuela objects 70 times to a U.N. human rights report.
From The Conservative Woman, the U.K.'s invitation to people smugglers.
From the Daily Mail, police in Manchester, England search for "Asian teenage boys" who allegedly sexually assaulted a girl.
From the Express, an un-elected body of elites decides to block any no-deal Brexit.
From the Evening Standard, a group of eco-radicals plans to shut down Heathrow Airport.
From the (U.K.) Independent, Brexit Party MEPs turn their backs on Beethoven. (These Brits are seated in the European Parliament, although the very intention of their party is to take the U.K. out of the E.U. You can't make this stuff up.)
From the (Irish) Independent, a rape trial in Dublin collapses after the accuser leaves Ireland.
From France24, a boat carrying 86 migrants sinks off the Tunisian coast.
From RFI, the tiger mosquito has colonized "half of France".
From El País, an official account of the Spanish party Vox accuses the leader of Ciudadanos of kissing the rear end of France's prime minister.
From The Portugal News, Portugal's government backs the omission of ethnic origin from the country's census.
From Morocco World News, Morocco and USAID have been working together to improve Moroccan lives since 1957.
From Malta Today, Maltese customs authorities seize 21,620 contraband cigarettes.
From ANSA, an Italian man who was attacked by a Nigerian asylum seeker dies in the hospital.
From SwissInfo, the best way to fight global warming is to plant trees.
From VRT NWS, Volvo sends cars from their plant in Ghent, Belgium to China by train.
From the NL Times, Dutch left-wing parties demand changes to the country's climate deal.
From Dutch News, the Dutch party VVD wants to make the rescue of drowning migrants a crime. (I'm no fan of illegal migrants or the smugglers who aid them, but requiring people to let them drown is not going to help the problem of illegal migration.)
From Deutsche Welle, two journalists in Dortmund, Germany receive letters containing white powder.
From Radio Poland, the U.S. ambassador to Poland pledges that Poles will be able to travel to the U.S. without needing a visa. (Yours truly was allowed into Poland without a visa in 2000. I'd say that it's way past time to reciprocate.)
From Radio Praha, a woman who survived the Holocaust at age 5 sees her dream of a memorial to child victims of the Holocaust come true.
From the Hungary Journal, according to Hungarian justice minister-designate Judit Varga, the E.U. summit was a victory for the Visegrad 4.
From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian cabinet voices its support for the E.U.'s new leaders.
From Hungary Today, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto opens a Hungarian consulate in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
From About Hungary, the statue of the Suffering Jesus in Budapest has been successfully restored.
From Total Croatia News, Croatia establishes a commission for the procurement of combat aircraft.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, Kosovo bans Serbian officials from entering.
From Ekathimerini, after five record years, tourism in Greece drops this summer.
From the Greek Reporter, authorities in Piraeus, Greece seize 5,250 kilos of Captagon, known as "jihadist pills".
From Novinite, the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency confirms a second outbreak of swine flu.
From the Sofia Globe, a mosque in Karlovo, Bulgaria is defaced with Nazi symbols and vulgar language.
From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgarian authorities dismantle two illegal cigarette factories in the villages of Trud and Razhevo Konare.
From Romania-Insider, Romania will buy five more F-16s from Portugal. (If you read Romanian, read the story at Profit(dot)ro.)
From Russia Today, flood relief efforts in Siberia are hampered by media drones.
From Sputnik International, the fire inside a Russia submersible broke out in its battery compartment.
From The Moscow Times, Russia President Putin says that it's too early to talk of his retirement.
From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Turkey's undersecretary for defense industries, the Russian S-400 air defense systems could be delivered next week.
From Turkish Minute, two daughters of a jailed religious leaders face prosecution for participating in a march for his release.
From Rûdaw, the ancient statue "Lion of Mosul", destroyed by ISIS, is reproduced as a 3D print.
From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu eases some restrictions on Gaza.
From The Times Of Israel, Palestinian leader Abbas calls the U.S.-led summit in Bahrain a "big lie" from Jared Kushner.
From The Jerusalem Post, the Palestinian Authority increases the salaries of terrorists, despite a financial crisis.
From Egypt Today, Egyptian officials are angry about the auction of a bust of King Tut.
From StepFeed, Saudi Arabia's first female ambassador to the U.S. starts her term in office.
From Radio Farda, billions of dollars worth of subsidized gasoline is smuggled out of Iran.
From IranWire, Afghans are killing Afghans for Iran.
From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan schedules his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.
From The Express Tribune, the leader of the Pakistan People's Party criticizes the government's censorship policy.
From Pakistan Today, five terror suspects are arrested after their attempt to destroy a railroad track fails.
From Khaama Press, Afghan security forces in Kabul foil an attack by defusing a car bomb.
From The Hans India, special vehicles are used to facilitate Islamic rituals in Hyderabad, India.
From the Hindustan Times, Stalin's son is appointed secretary of his party's youth wing.
From ANI, the first group of Hajj pilgrims from Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir arrives in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
From India Today, the Indian Supreme Court will hear a plea against the government deporting Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar.
From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan customs officials seize 5,500 methamphetamine bills smuggled from Belgium.
From the Colombo Page, Pope Francis appoints a Sri Lankan priest to be the secretary of the Vatican council for religious dialogue.
From DailyKenn, hate groups kill 881 people of color in June 2019, but the media don't seem to notice.
From Gatestone Institute, the shocking degree of self-censorship in Germany.
From The Straits Times, another protest is planned for Hong Kong.
From the Borneo Post, Malaysia hopes to send more pilgrims to the Hajj in the future.
From Free Malaysia Today, a Malaysian palm oil expert slams the E.U. for labeling palm oil as "unsustainable".
And from The Babylon Bee, President Trump's military parade marches across the Atlantic and takes over England.
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