Wednesday Links

As the sunny weather continues into the middle of the week, here are some things going on:

From Free West Media, the French National Assembly passes a "hate speech" bill.

From France24, missiles belonging to the French military are found on a base in Libya.

From RFI, the French health agency warns about paracetamol.

From the Express, Gatwick Airport experiences some technical difficulties.

From the Evening Standard, another stabbing occurs in the city where knives are illegal.

From the (U.K.) Independent, Boris Johnson's intent to shut down Parliament to get a no-deal Brexit gets some opposition from a former prime minister.

From the (Irish) Independent, the Irish census gets eight new questions.  (Perhaps the American president and his critics should all take note.)

From the Irish Examiner, how will trade between Ireland and Northern Ireland work after Brexit?

From VRT NWS, Google employees are listening to your audio files.  (I know how to say "big brother" in French, which is grand frère, but how do you say it in Flemish?  Those are the two main languages spoken in Belgium.)

From the NL Times, a Dutch KLM cargo plane loses wing flap over Zimbabwe.

From Dutch News, the Dutch party PVV faces a police investigation after their Facebook post attracts allegedly racist comments.

From Deutsche Welle, with German Chancellor Merkel, there's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on.  (With apologies to Jerry Lee Lewis, of course.)

From the CPH Post, a Danish woman is awarded compensation after reports of her death were greatly exaggerated.  (With apologies to Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain, of course.)

From Voice Of Europe, a former Norwegian government minister is sentenced for sexually abusing three asylum seekers.

From Polskie Radio, a communist-era policeman is charged with shooting Polish miners in 1981.  (This site, also known as Radio Poland, has undergone a change in its URL and in its format, which now more prominently displays the Polish version of its name.)

From Radio Praha, scientists in Prague discuss the future of Antarctica.

From The Slovak Spectator, German passport holders can now use Slovakia's central public administration website.

From Euractiv, European Commission president nominee Ursula von der Leyen gets grilled by the European Parliament.

From the Hungary Journal, will Hungary's representatives in the European Parliament support von der Leyen for European Commission president?

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban attended an Independence Day event at the U.S. embassy.

From Hungary Today, singer Paul Anka salutes Orban with a special version of My Way.

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian Finance Minister Mihály Varga, the E.U.'s recommendations for Hungary are based on double standards.

From Russia Today, it's OK to protect the privacy of terrorists, until they blow you up.

From Sputnik International, Russian athlete Roman Khrennikov is denied entry into the U.S., for the second time.  (Will the same people who protested President Trump's temporary ban on entry to the U.S. from certain Muslim-majority countries protest on this guy's behalf?  Just wondering.)

From The Moscow Times, five Moscow police officers are fired over the arrest of journalist Ivan Golunov.

From EuroNews, the remains of one of Napoleon's generals are believed to have been found in Russia.

From CBC News, the water levels of Lakes Erie and Ontario are at all-time highs.

From Global News, top NATO and E.U. officials meet with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

From CTV News, a Canadian sailor agrees to have his "infidel" tattoo redesigned.

From Morocco World News, the vast majority of Moroccan victims of sexual assault don't report it.

From The Portugal News, 8,200 guns are destroyed in Maia, Portugal.

From El País, today's stage of the Trampling of the Idiots was relatively uneventful.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland and the U.K. sign security provisions for after Brexit.

From ANSA, Italians wonder what the hail is going on.

From Total Croatia News, a plaque is unveiled at a hospital in Zagreb to honor doctors and nuns who aided Jews during World War II.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Turkey demands the extradition of suspected Gulanists from Bosnia and Hercegovina.

From Ekathimerini, scientists say that a piece of skull found in Greece is the earliest sign of humans outside of Africa.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece's new prime minister urges his cabinet to unite all Greeks.

From Novinite, Bulgaria reaches a deal to buy U.S. F-16 jets.

From The Sofia Globe, President Roumen Radev decrees the date for Bulgaria's municipal elections.

From Radio Bulgaria, volunteers from 10 countries will work to restore an early Christian basilica near Tervel, Bulgaria.

From Romania-Insider, the electric car sharing service Spark is launched in Bucharest.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Wall-Street.)

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey rejects claims by Greece and the E.U. that its drilling off Cyprus is illegitimate.

From Turkish Minute, a Turkish journalist is convicted of having Gülen links, but is released from prison pending appeal.

From Rûdaw, Iraqi forces shut down ISIS bomb factories in the provinces of Anbar, Nineveh and Saladin.

From Arutz Sheva, speaking in Samaria, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu promises that no community will be uprooted.

From The Times Of Israel, the number of fires in southern Israel caused by attacks from Gaza has greatly decreased.

From The Jerusalem Post, France and the U.K. pledge to send more troops to Syria.

From Egypt Today, Egypt launches the first phrase of an operation to separate minerals from black sand.

From StepFeed, two sites in the Arab world are added to UNESCO's World Heritage list.

From Radio Farda, Iran's release of a Lebanese man living in the U.S. was a "failed overture" to the U.S.

From IranWire, rape, drugs and prostitution go on in Iranian prisons.

From Dawn, children are on death row in Pakistan's prisons.

From The Express Tribune, the White House confirms the planned meeting between U.S. President Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani politician Maryam Nawaz presents two videos in support of her claim that a judge was "pressured and blackmailed" to rule against her father.

From Khaama Press, seven Pakistani militants in Afghanistan experience premature detonation.

From The Hans India, Al Qaeda releases a video threatening the Indian Army.

From the Hindustan Times, the Indian government bans the group Sikhs for Justice, which the article states is based in the U.S.

From ANI, the lions in the Gir forest will get radio collars.  (These lions are the remnant of a subspecies that once ranged as far west as modern Lebanon.  India might be the only country on earth which actually has native lions, tigers, and bears.)

From India Today, India's cabinet approves a transgender rights bill.

From the Daily Mirror, U.S. President Trump reaffirms his pledge to stand with Sri Lanka against terrorism.

From the Colombo Page, the E.U.'s counter-terrorism coordinator will visit Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.N. launches an "all-out war" against free speech.

From The Jakarta Post, an ISIS-linked group is suspected of murdering a father and his son in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi.

From The Straits Times, six supporters of an insurgent group in Myanmar are arrested in Singapore.

From the Borneo Post, police in Malaysia arrest 10 people and inspect 95 boats in an operation to combat fish bombing.

From Free Malaysia Today, a planned Muslim unity seminar is cancelled for security reasons.

From The Conservative Woman, good luck to the doctor who dares to tell the truth.

From Snouts in the Trough, Trump tells it like it is, which drives the U.K. elite nuts.

From National Review, an appeals court dismisses a suit against Trump.

From Townhall, one federal department now spends $100 billion per month.

From FrontpageMag, three questions to ask if we really want peace in the Middle East.

From The Washington Free Beacon, illegal border crossings decrease in June, but there's still a crisis.

From the Washington Examiner, Bob O'Rourke "goes for broke" by claiming that the U.S. was founded on white supremacy.

From The Federalist, the left has made anti-Americanism mainstream.

From American Thinker, "a look at all of Trump's enemies".

From CNS News, according to House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS), facial recognition technology has made false matches for non-white people.

From LifeZette, according to Dr. James Dobson, left-wing politicians and the media have not been truthful on the border crisis.

From the New York Post, sturgeon are making a comeback.

And from Breaking Burgh, because of Trump, the war between the U.S. and the U.K. has been resumed.