Monday Links

Here on the first Monday in August are some things going on:

From Free West Media, migrants attack Italian policemen trying to apprehend a drug dealer.

From ANSA, a boat carrying 48 migrants lands on the Italian island of Lampedusa.

From the Malta Independent, according to an NGO worker, Malta needs more trees.

From Malta Today, according to a Eurobarometer survey, Maltese are concerned most about immigration, housing and the environment.

From SwissInfo, a youth climate summit in Lausanne, Switzerland targets E.U. lawmakers.

From France24, the boy thrown from the Tate Modern museum in London is a French tourist.

From RFI, so far, 83 women have been killed in France this year.

From El País, the Spanish NGO ship Open Arms, carrying 120 migrants, calls for a safe port.

From The Portugal News, 23 Spanish tourists suffer food poisoning at a hotel in Fátima, Portugal.

From Morocco World News, the Moroccan navy rescues 63 migrants off the coast of Al Hoceima.

From TeleSUR, a Brazilian prisoner tries to escape by disguising himself as his teenage daughter.

From CBC News, five people are injured in a shooting at a Toronto night club.

From Global News, according to psychologists, vegan cyberbullying is stressing out farmers.

From CTV News, an attempted river dive by the RCMP turns up empty regarding the two fugitive murder suspects.

From EuroNews, an English tearoom names a robot after former U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May.  (Like her human namesake, she can't deliver Brexit, but she can deliver breakfast.)

From the Express, the E.U. starts preparing for a no-deal Brexit.

From the Evening Standard, two more days are reportedly needed to save the Whaley Bridge dam.

From the (U.K.) Independent, 47 asylum seekers who crossed the English Channel could be forced back to mainland Europe.

From the (Irish) Independent, a priest advises that cigarettes and beer are not appropriate funeral gifts.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar wants by-elections in November.

From the NL Times, 14 people are arrested at a Canal Pride festival.

From Dutch News, the "burqa queens" stage a colorful protest in Amsterdam.

From Deutsche Welle, German cities call for more restrictions on e-scooters after incidents involving drunk e-scooter operators.

From the CPH Post, 22 women in Denmark are charged under the country's burka ban.

From Radio Poland, Warsaw plans to commemorate the victims of the Wola massacre of 1944.

From Radio Praha, why is the Czech Republic losing its butterflies?

From The Slovak Spectator, over 100,000 people attend Slovakia's biggest air show.

From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian opposition party LMP demands an immediate halt to the project to upgrade the railroad between Budapest and Belgrade.

From Hungary Today, according to Hungary's chief veterinary officer, the country's farm pigs have not been affected by swine fever.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Hirado.)

From About Hungary, for the first time ever, Plácido Domingo will perform in Hungary.

From Total Croatia News, the Torcida and Armada groups celebrate Croatian Victory Day.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Morski.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, politicians in Bosnia and Hercegovina finally agree on forming a Council of Ministers.

From Ekathimerini, don't smoke and drive in Greece if there's a child in your car.

From the Greek Reporter, ancient shipwrecks off the Greek island of Evitha yield some important discoveries.

From Novinite, between 20,000 and 25,000 Bulgarians lost their jobs due to the swine fever outbreak.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria's agriculture minister bans pig hunting in areas affected by swine fever.

From Radio Bulgaria, for the forth straight day, protesting Bulgarian pig farmers block a road between Sliven and Yambol.

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian government will institute a progressive tax only on "special" pensions.  (If you read Romanian, read more at HotNews and G4Media.)

From Russia Today, at least eight people are injured when an artillery depot explodes.

From Sputnik International, Moscow district courts authorize the arrests of more than 100 people for unauthorized protests.

From The Moscow Times, according to President Putin, Russia will develop new nuclear missiles if the U.S. does.

From Euractiv, France and Germany condemn Russia's crackdown on protesters.

From Hürriyet Daily News, U.S. and Turkish officials meets to discuss a possible safe zone in Syria.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish fashion designer and government critic Barbaros Şansal is assaulted while giving blood.

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus's interior minister asks E.U. countries to pledge to take in 5,000 people.

From Rûdaw, the Iraqi army and Peshmerga launch a joint operation against ISIS in the province of Diyala.

From Arutz Sheva, according to a U.N. report, Hamas recruits children for terrorism.

From The Times Of Israel, former spy Jonathan Pollard appeals to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to ask U.S. President Trump to commute his parole so he can take care of his wife.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel might be facing a shortage of chickens.

From YNetNews, a new app helps Palestinian drivers navigate through Israeli checkpoints and settlements.

From Egypt Today, 20 people are killed and 48 others injured by a car bomb that exploded near Egypt's National Cancer Institute.

From StepFeed, a group of British Muslims travel to the Hajj on bicycle.

From Radio Farda, the U.K. will join the U.S.-led mission to the Persian Gulf.

From IranWire, Iranian authorities step up their punishment of Christians.

From Dawn, Pakistan says that it will "exercise all possible options" against India's steps in the Indian controlled part of Kashmir.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan rejects India's decision to revoke the special status given to its part of Kashmir.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani politician Maryam Nawaz draws scrutiny for allegedly politicizing the situation in Kashmir.

From Khaama Press, watch a strike by the Afghan Air Force destroy a car bomb.

From The Hans India, according to Indian President Ram Nath Kovind, India's constitution will apply in Jammu and Kashmir.

From the Hindustan Times, what it will mean for Jammu and Kashmir to become two Union Territories.

From ANI, according to the Jammu and Kashmir administration, the area will not experience shortages of food or civil supplies.

From India Today, the status of Jammu and Kashmir, before and after the revocation of Article 370.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan police arrest three suspected terrorists who allegedly received training from the group led by the mastermind of the Easter Sunday attacks.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, the suspected Stuttgart, Germany sword murderer posted online a statement of religious devotion before his committing his crime.

From Gatestone Institute, the Green New Deal could bring poverty to everyone.

From The Jakarta Post, Mike Pompeo becomes the first U.S. Secretary of State to visit Micronesia.  (The Federated States of Micronesia were part of a trust territory administered by the U.S. from the end of World War II up until 1990.)

From The Straits Times, Hong Kong "descends into chaos" as police use tear gas and protesters use wooden poles.

From the Borneo Post, the largest ice sculpture in Asian history is created at a theme park in Ipoh, Malaysia.

From Free Malaysia Today, two suspects arrested for planting explosives in Bangkok, Thailand had visited Malaysia several times.

From The Mainichi, Japan protests planned Russian exercises near the disputed island of Kunashiri.

From The Conservative Woman, the facts which everyone wanting to smoke cannabis should know.

From Snouts in the Trough, when it comes to carbon dioxide, do the math.

From National Review, "how to combat white-supremacist gun violence while protecting the Second Amendment".

From FrontpageMag, "politicizing murder with lies".

From Townhall, a grandmother in Texas prevents a possible mass shooting.

From The Washington Free Beacon, rich liberals in Maryland suburbs of D.C. oppose an affordable housing proposal.

From the Washington Examiner, former President George Bush the Younger becomes a grandfather.

From The Federalist, those who shout "do something" don't really have a plan.

From American Thinker, "the real root causes of mass shootings".

From CNS News, where's the outrage about the gun carnage in Chicago?

From LifeZette, a soldier saved lives in El Paso thanks to his training and concealed carry weapon.

From NewsBusters, the Dayton shooter's support for Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) is largely ignored.

From The Stream, how a college art class became a political ambush.

From the New York Post, the "MAGA bomber" gets 20 years in prison.

And from The Babylon Bee (which, for Snopes readers who wish to fact-check this blog, is satire), video games are blamed for the sudden appearance of hastily built and abandoned forts across the U.S.  (Did I say that TBB is satire?  Well, just in case you haven't gotten it through your thick skulls already, The Babylon Bee is SATIRE!)