Tuesday Tidings

Here on the last Tuesday in July 2019 are some things going on:

From Free West Media, an arson attack against an AfD politician Arendsee, Germany is investigated as an attempted murder.

From Deutsche Welle, an Eritrean man suspected of pushing a woman and her son onto train tracks is investigated for murder.

From the CPH Post, in Copenhagen, you can go from bicycle to recycle.

From Polskie Radio, a Catholic priest is attacked in Szczecin, Poland.

From Radio Praha, why were Prague's city councilors thrown out the window 600 years ago?

From The Slovak Spectator, the Slovak embassy in the U.S. decides to unveil a bust of statesman Milan Rastislav Štefánik.

From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian town of Füzér is friendly to wolves.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Sokszínű Vidék.)

From Hungary Today, Hungarians living outside Hungary are eligible for student loans.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Hirado.)

From About Hungary, 31 illegal immigrants are found in a Budapest man's van in Polgár, Hungary.  (Once again, this shows that migrants don't merely migrate, but are smuggled or trafficked.)

From Russia Today, move over, Baltimore rats, here are Sochi's cockroaches.

From Sputnik International, a Moscow city court keeps Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny in jail.

From The Moscow Times, "It's time for radical measures", says opposition leader Lyubov Sobol.

From Romania-Insider, Romania's interior ministry will acquire medical and search-and-rescue helicopters.

From Novinite, a Roman wall is found in Sofia, Bulgaria.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria's deal to buy F-16s from the U.S. is published in the State Gazette.

From Radio Bulgaria, the number of human trafficking victims in Bulgaria varies from 400 to 550 each year.

From Ekathimerini, a suspected accomplice to a murder in Greece is arrested in Bulgaria.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece uses an unmanned blimp to monitor the flow of migrants.  (I can see where such a device could be used on our borders, as a supplement to the wall.  Perhaps it can be made to be a Trump baby blimp, which might scare away a few would-be illegal aliens.  Of course, my preferred design would be a copy of Pink Floyd's pig balloon.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the mayor of Durrës, Albania is barred from entering the U.S.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia strengthen their cooperation on searching for people missing due to wars.

From ANSA, the Siracusa prosecutor's office opens an investigation regarding the coast guard ship which is carrying 115 migrants.

From Malta Today, customs officials in Freeport, Malta intercept thousands of bottles of fake perfumes and shampoos.

From SwissInfo, the above-mentioned Eritrean man has also been wanted by the Swiss police.

From El País, why an airline stopped a woman in a bodysuit from boarding a plane.

From The Portugal News, the body of a Portuguese man is pulled from the Loire River in France.

From Morocco World News, acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez praises Morocco's "notable" progress.  (The article does not include the term "acting" nor the accent on the "a" in the man's last name.  However, I've learned about both from El País.)

From France24, more on the Portuguese man whose body was found in the Loire.

From RFI, the French inventor of the flyboard will make a second attempt at crossing the English Channel.

From the Express, could the E.U. turn against the Irish government over the Brexit backstop?

From the Evening Standard, climate change protesters target the wrong building.  (As far as I'm concerned, climate change activists will always be targeting the wrong building until they find the embassy of China, by far the world's largest carbon dioxide producer.)

From the (U.K.) Independent, a man hits a railroad passenger with a hammer and pushes him onto the tracks.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish Taoiseach Varakdar tells U.K. Prime Minister Johnson that the "backstop is necessary".

From the Irish Examiner, Johnson appear to snub Varadkar's invitation to hold Brexit talks in Dublin.

From the NL Times, Dutch police seek an alternative for women who wear burkas after they are banned.

From Dutch News, more Dutch people report medical problems after using laughing gas.

From CBC News, a man from Sudbury, Ontario now living in Alberta gave the two murder suspects a ride, before they were announced as wanted.

From Global News, Halifax, Nova Scotia moves toward allowing residents to keep chickens in their backyard.  (According to Papa Bigfoot, backyard chickens were pretty common during his teen years in Pennsylvania, which roughly corresponded to America's involvement in World War II.)

From CTV News, the RCMP pulls away from York Landing, Manitoba after the two murder suspects are not found there.

From TeleSUR, six Venezuelan farmers are reportedly killed by Colombian paramilitary forces.

From The Jakarta Post, customs officials in Indonesia's Riau Islands send seven containers of plastic waste back to France and Hong Kong.

From The Straits Times, police in Hong Kong arrest 44 protesters for rioting.

From The Borneo Post, the demand for Malaysian palm oil increases.

From Free Malaysia Today, poaching and depletion of prey push the Malaysian tiger toward extinction.

From The Mainchi, the Japanese government picks Jomon-era sites for World Heritage designation.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka bans all imported liquor which doesn't have a "foolproof" sticker.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan Navy arrests six Indian men who boat was carrying 2379 kilos of beedi leaves.

From The Hans India, Indian Prime Minister Modi hails the passage of a bill against the triple talaq.

From the Hindustan Times, police in Jammu and Kashmir kill a top Jaish-e-Mohammad commander.

From ANI, according to India's law minister, the bill against triple talaq stands for justice and equality, not religion.

From India Today, nearly 500 Indian Sikh pilgrims enter Pakistan for a celebration of the birth of the Sikh religion's founder.

From Khaama Press, Taliban terrorists get droned.

From Dawn, five people are killed in a blast outside a police station in Quetta, Pakistan.

From The Express Tribune, a Pakistani civilian is killed allegedly by shelling by Indian troops across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi briefs E.U. envoys on India's behavior in Kashmir.

From Radio Farda, Singapore detains two Iranian ships carrying liquified natural gas.

From IranWire, an Iranian activist has accumulated seven arrests and eight years in prison for defending the rights of workers.

From StepFeed, a violent brawl breaks out during a "folk song" at a wedding feast in Baalbek, Lebanon, leaving three people dead.

From Egypt Today, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly holds a meeting to reveal Egypt's solid waste recycling plan.

From Arutz Sheva, according to a poll, the United Right could win 12 seats in the Knesset.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel's security cabinet grants Palestinians 700 building permits.

From The Jerusalem Post, the IDF practices drills for evacuating communities near the Gazan and Egyptian borders.

From YNetNews, Germany disciplines its diplomats over anti-Israel and anti-Semitic social media "likes".

From Rûdaw, Syrians deported from Turkey find their homeland unfamiliar.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey can benefit from properly collected plastic waste.

From Turkish Minute, acting on anonymous tips, police in Istanbul, Turkey apprehend 40 illegal migrants.

From the Lancaster Telegraph, an Islamic gathering in Blackburn, Lancashire, England produces a massive parking problem.  (Did they ever find those 4,000 holes?)

From the WA Today, Australia's Labor Party calls for former Breitbart editor Raheem Kassam to be banned from entering the country.

From Gatestone Institute, "Turkey adopts Eurasianism".

From The Conservative Woman, the great thing about Boris is that he drives the lefties nuts.  (Sounds like what President Trump does on the other side of the Pond.  Come to think of it, with his blonde hair, doesn't Boris kind of resemble a younger version of Trump?)

From National Review, contrary to what some believe, Catholicism and communism don't mix.

From FrontpageMag, the U.S. finally has a president who will stand up to Al Sharpton.

From Townhall, the "U.N. is hypocritical to condemn Israel on women's rights".  (When the number of Saudi Arabian women who are allowed to drive a car without a male guardian in the car passes the number of Israeli women who fly military aircraft, please inform us all.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Democratic Virginia delegate interrupts President Trump's speech at Jamestown.  (See below for a story about the speech itself.)

From the Washington Examiner, a bipartisan group of congresscritters introduces a bill to create a coin commemorating baseball's Negro Leagues.

From The Federalist, the Democratic identity politics civil war expands into their campaign committee.

From American Thinker, no, mass shootings are not a white thing.

From CNS News, HUD Secretary Ben Carson lists three ways to reduce your chances of being poor.

From LifeZette, Trump shines a light on Democrat-dominated failed urban areas, which the Democrats naturally don't like.

From The Stream, Trump commemorates 400 years of representative government in America.

From Accuracy in Media, a CNN photo editor resigns after his anti-Semitic Tweets are discovered.

From LifeNews, former Vice President Biden (D) wants to force Americans to fund abortions.

From the New York Post, Biden stretches his lead over other Democrats and Bernie Sanders (I-VT).  (Considering that Democrats generally support abortion, his desire to force Americans to pay for them probably sits well with his fellow Dems.  Perhaps they could nominate a Biden/Sanders ticket.  Why let over 150 years of experience go to waste?)

And from In-Cyprus, according to a bishop in Morphou, Cyprus, with all the abortions going on, mourning the child victims of a serial killer is hypocritical.