Friday Fuss - Part 1

On the last Friday of August, here are some things going on:

From Free West Media, about 40 percent of knife attacks in Germany are by foreigners.

From Deutsche Welle, a man suspected of killing a Chechen in Berlin appears to be Russian.

From Euractiv, according to a study, one in two Germans is against increased migration.

From the CPH Post, an increasing number of babies in Denmark see a chiropractor.

From Polskie Radio, due to U.S. President Trump's cancellation of his trip to Poland, Vice President Pence will stand in on the anniversary of the start of World War II.

From Radio Prague, authorities of the sixth district of Prague order the statue of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev to be covered up.  (This site is now using the English rendering of the name "Prague".)

From The Slovak Spectator, "are robots stealing our jobs?"  (Ironically, the word "robot" has origins in the Slavic languages, for words relating to work.  For example, the Polish word robota means "work" or "job", while robotnik means "worker".)

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto criticizes the European Commission.

From Daily News Hungary, (the actor who portrays) Borat comes to Budapest.

From Hungary Today, ethnic Hungarians in Transylvania protest against the renaming of a medical university.

From About Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban thanks former Italian Interior Minister Salvini for his help during the European migrant crisis.

From Russia Today, U.S. citizen Paul Whelan is indicted in Russia on charges of spying.

From Sputnik International, Russia may become one of the world's scientific leaders because of a project called "Ocean".

From The Moscow Times, Russia is buying foreign plastic waste.

From Romania-Insider, a Romanian company launches a line of heavy-duty trucks.

From Novinite, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva talks with her Northern Macedonian counterpart.  (She looks, in my opinion, a bit like a certain former Alaskan governor.)

From The Sofia Globe, for the first seven months of 2019, Bulgaria's government runs a surplus.

From Ekathimerini, over a dozen migrant boats land on the Greek island of Lesbos, the largest such arrival in three years.  (This is the first time in a while that I've seen the spelling "Lesbos".  Most of the time it seems to be "Lesvos".)

From the Greek Reporter, Greece's foreign minister summons the Turkish Ambassador to protest the landing of migrants on Lesvos.  (This article uses the spelling "Lesvos".)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Croatia joins the hydrocarbon race.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia is still searching for 1,892 people who went missing during the 1991-1995 war.

From EuroNews, a statue of U.S. President Trump baffles the residents of Mrs. Trump's homeland.

From the Malta Independent, a South African delegation arrives in Malta to discuss LGBTIQ matters.

From ANSA, women and children are allowed to disembark from the NGO ship Mare Jonio, leaving 34 migrants on board.

From SwissInfo, thousands of Swiss protest a court decision which overturned a vote to have a town transferred from one canton to another.

From El País, about 150 migrants jump the border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

From The Portugal News, a Portuguese woman protesting in the U.K. against Brexit moves to Scotland for her own safety.

From France24, does France have the world's best health care?

From RFI, the French port of Calais starts rehearsing for Brexit.

From VRT NWS, an Islamic school in Genk, Belgium is not recognized by the Flemish government.

From the NL Times, Dutch police arrest two people in connection with two incidents in Rotterdam involving hand grenades.

From Dutch News, Rotterdam has been chosen to host the 2020 Eurovision Song Festival.

From the Express, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage "stuns" a Fox News host by predicting the predicting the end of the E.U. in two years if Brexit is accomplished.

From the Evening Standard, a British man is sentenced for "racist" Tweets about a Muslim soccer player.  (I use quotes around "racist" because the word's definition can be very elastic.)

From the (U.K.) Independent, the effort to block U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's move to suspend Parliament is joined by one of his predecessors.

From the (Irish) Independent, protesters postpone a visit by a Chinese inspection team to an Irish beef processing plant.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Irish Transport Minister Shane Ross, a hard border with the U.K. post-Brexit could provoke bombings.

And from The Conservative Woman, a look at the real divide in the U.K. school system.